Uses of Scrivener

Presented here tonight is another harping of Scrivener, the writing software for Mac OS X.

Like any good Bachelor of the Arts undergrad writing every day for classes is desired, expected, and graded. Most computer users these days use Microsoft Office. I'll leave it at that -- for the users, that is. Office isn't a very nice hunk of code; it's bloated, kinda buggy and runs poorly on my intel machine. For the first 4 years of school I used textedit and forged along defiantly.

Oh, I'd dabbled with writing software occasionally. They were always designed less for content and more for presentation. I heard of Scrivener mid 06, and took the opportunity to try out Scrivener Gold, the completely free "don't cry to me if it breaks" version. I was pleased with what I saw. Chapter support, annotations, footnotes, sort by section with synopsis. I'd have purchased it then, if it weren't for two things. First, I'm a cheap son'bitch and second, my writing output wasn't biblical.

The spring semester changed that. I had been writing this blog for months now, have heavier classes now, and (most importantly) have begun writing my senior thesis. I felt it was time to actually pay full price for the software. How much should I pay for it? Forty American dollars. Worth every cent.

Later today, I'm going to write a very kind letter to the man at Literature and Latte (Ltd.)