I spent a chunk of hours one afternoon going through the main tutorial, and then started using it and figuring out how to make it work for a poetry manuscript. Once I took a look at Scrivener I immediately could see the benefits of using it for a poetry manuscript. And worst of all, it was really annoying in Word to try to mess around with the order of poems in a manuscript––cutting and pasting them throughout the main doc, and then manually updating the TOC. I’d also have to save multiple versions of that main file with different types of front matter depending on where I was sending the manuscript (some places want acknowledgements, some don’t some want a title page with contact info, some without etc.). It was especially tricky to keep track of subsequent versions of poems once the big file was created each time I edited a poem in a single file I’d have to remember to update the main manuscript doc as well. I would copy and paste each poem into one big file, which became unwieldy. The biggest problem was putting together a poetry manuscript. I usually write first drafts by hand in a notebook, then type them in Word, and save multiple files of subsequent drafts.
As a poet, I’d always used Microsoft Word, with quite a bit of frustration. Scrivener is well known for being a great writing tool for novelists, screenwriters, and long-form non-fiction writers, but when my friend mentioned she used Scrivener for poetry manuscripts, I was intrigued.
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