It’s a beautiful piece of software based on a strong design philosophy of simplicity and plain text editing using markup.
Ulysses was one of the first programs on the Mac aimed specifically at creative writers, and was also among the first to offer full-screen writing. We list it here mainly because it was one of the initial sparks of inspiration for Scrivener-upon trying it, Keith, Scrivener’s creator, realised that he wanted something with a similar structured sidebar, but which made no assumptions about the structure itself. Unlike most of the other apps listed here, NewNovelist is based on following a rigid story structure-Chris Vogler’s twelve-step interpretion of Joseph Campbell’s work on the “hero’s journey”. Sadly it has not been updated for several years, but since it represents a unique approach to writing software, we figure it is still worthy of a link. It lets you view pictures and multiple files, and features a decent labelling system along with various other tools aimed at the creative writer. The developers of Liquid Story Binder had a similar idea to the one that inspired Scrivener: allow writers to store and view their research in the same application as they do their writing. The “Snapshots” feature of its predecessor, PageFour, was one of the inspirations for Scrivener’s own Snapshots feature (and yes, we shamelessly borrowed the feature name). Providing integrated word processing and outlining, it is perhaps the app closest to Scrivener on this list. SmartEdit Writer is a free program for editing and organising your writings in a tabbed interface. Be sure to check out Scapple, too, which lets you write notes anywhere and make connections between them. Scrivener contains everything you need to craft your first draft and is used by writers of all stripes-novelists, screenwriters, biographers, journalists, students and more.
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Oh wait, that’s our software! You probably already know about Scrivener if you’re reading this, but if you came to this page from an internet search or another site and haven’t tried Scrivener yet, be sure to take the free trial for a spin. We love Scrivener because we built it to work the way we do, but if you’ve tried Scrivener and found that it isn’t the best fit for you, then we hope you’ll find something useful from this list. We understand that the writing process is different for everyone.
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