The Testimonials page on Scrivener's website is hilariously long, and loaded with big-name writers. Those are also the features so many other authors love about the app. I’d be kind of moving these around, and I had a reading binder as well." He wanted something that would let him keep all his research in one place, write in big or small chunks, and then move everything around as he pleased. I had an excel file, and I’d be writing little synopses in there, of Word documents. "I’d write ideas on index cards, and be shuffling those around. (In a delightful touch of irony, Blount actually built Scrivener while procrastinating writing a novel he thought he wanted to write.) He built the app to mirror the way he works: "I had all these routines," he says. The concept for Scrivener hasn't changed at all, in Blount's mind, since he first started teaching himself to code in order to build the app. "My philosophy," Blount says, "has always been to kind of follow Apple's lead in this regard-to make apps that look native, feel native, and kind of get out of the way as much as they can." Still, Scrivener's always been more complicated than your average writing app, so Blount had to be inventive: the app uses gestures to help you organize, and tries to help you find everything quickly. It's text-heavy and list-friendly, which should sound familiar to anyone who's used.any iOS app ever. The new app is cleaner and simpler than any Scrivener project has ever been. And today, after years of development and even more years of user requests, Scrivener's also available for the iPhone and iPad. A huge group of writers, at all levels of acclaim and wealth and prolificness, rely on Scrivener to do their work on Macs and PCs. Scrivener's first public launch came via the NaNoWriMo forums in 2005, and now Blount and his company, Literature and Latte, sponsor a camp for aspiring novelists every year. Blount is the creator and primary developer of Scrivener, an app made specifically for writers wrangling huge word counts. NaNoWriMo has been very good to Keith Blount. One guy apparently wrote more than a million. In 2015, 431,626 people signed up to try and write 50,000 words in a single month. Every November for the last 17 years, thousands of people have participated in National Novel Writing Month, which is more commonly and less pronounceably known as NaNoWriMo.
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