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A lot of people come from Word to Scrivener … and find it a little confusing. There’s a lot of difference, but once you cast off the historic compromises that Word imposes on writers, you find that Scrivener changes your (writing) life.

I thought I’d put together a short cheat-sheet to help get over the Scrivener speed bump. It just points you to some connections between Word things and Scrivener things.

I hope it’s of use to some people.

Find it here.

(btw, my book, Scrivener for Writers, will be out early in March – watch this space)

Scrivener can seem intimidating on first sight – it’s hard to know where to start. It’s a complex software with many tools to help you with your writing. It can be intimidating to anyone who is used to a word processor with its single page.

But Scrivener is not complex to start writing in. In fact, it’s about as simple as can be. You don’t need to worry about layout or format or separating parts of your text, you can just start writing and find out the fancy stuff later.

Quickstart – Writing with Scrivener