Oh my.

A writer I know and connected with on a message board a couple of years ago wrote to me the other day to tell me that:

(1) I rock. (I know.)

(2) I rock even more now that I’m a hardcore Mac fan. (I know!)

(3) I would continue to rock if I checked out this cool little software called Scrivener. Because you know, you’re not a real writer unless you’ve spent $40 on a program that lets you… well, write.

Well, that’s what I thought initially. The sarcastic part of me. But the geek part of me downloaded it anyway.

And wow. Wow. I’m in love.

The software was clearly created by a writer, because in a single project, you can save parts of the draft you’re working on, you can store research, you can view it all on a single page, and you can access it all in as little as a single click.

I’ve already managed to make some progress on a project that was driving me batty. If you’re bad at organization (and what kind of writer would you be if you weren’t?), you know the frustration of having research that’s scattered across a dozen web pages, stats that are in ten different files, and interviews that are all over the place.

The program makes it easy. Really, it does.

Check it out and watch this video to get a feel of it before you bother spending time learning all the ins and outs to know whether it’s for you.