You may remember that I have been keen to use Scrivener to write my books for a long time now. Such glowing reports about how wonderful it is, it’s a wonder everyone isn’t using it.
Somehow though, I haven’t managed to get a grip on what turned out to be a very steep learning curve.
And if that makes me stupid, or a coward, so be it.
However, something has happened to make it kind of essential and very necessary that I learn it in a hurry.
Word has finally gone several steps too far for me. And several steps much too far with my precious book.
Sections have gone missing, and when I decided to create a copy of the finished book, ready for another edit, I’m not really sure where it went, but I couldn’t find it anywhere.
At this point, I became terrified that I might lose it all together and that didn’t bear thinking about. All those long months of writing what may well be the best one so far.
I had to do something and quick.
I could have gone to Google docs, but that always feels so impersonal and I don’t really know enough about that system to trust it. So, I turned to Scrivener, again. I had to get to grips with it once and for all. Apparently, Scrivener was designed to cope with large files, where Word actually hates them, so, on learning that, my goose was cooked.
Like a good student, I logged on and chose to follow the tutorial. Baby steps might be the way to go, I thought. An hour later, I knew a little more about Scrivener.
I discovered an interesting fact, one that would help me to get started. I thought I would have to cut and paste the whole book over to Scrivener, chapter by chapter, and it worried me no end. Doing it that way would be fraught with problems, and I really didn’t fancy it. There had to be an easy way to transfer such a large file.
Well, there was, and this was where the fun began…
More tomorrow…
I must be mad… or I will be soon!
Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes 
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