Its seems strange how as I start to organize my thoughts on writing this book I have been talking about, useful blog posts and tools start showing up out of the blue. For no reason other than I had not perused the site in a couple of months I logged into CR4. The first article I started reading lead me to a piece of software specifically designed for writing and looks like a great program for its stated function. I am one that always prefers to use  software for their intended function therefore you will never see me use Excel for any kind of data access or flow charts like everyone where I work. I will use Access and Viso for those functions and Excel for spreadsheet calculations and have become quite a proficient user of all three.

Without further ado I give you Scrivener. At first glance it looks to be another word processing program but after a couple hours of YouTube videos describing the various features such as organizing your chapters and research items. The ease with which you can rearrange your content which is nothing like a cut and paste in a Word document I find quite appealing. As I start creating the content for my book I will continue to update you with the various features I discover within this software and at 40.00 I will definitely be using this for much longer than the 30 day trial period. Actually my trial period finished last night 🙂 after watching those great videos. I love getting other users opinions of software or items I am thinking of purchasing outside of the comments reviewers leave on the product websites. I believe those as much as I believe the commercials that state, “These are not actors but real people…” yeah right.

Another item of note, I completed my taxes for 2015, yes I am getting a refund from my Federal but alas I must pay the state of Oklahoma. Another check mark on my todo list for the day.