Scrivener users who are also traditionally published authors. When you draft in Scrivener, you still need to buy MSWord to send your drafts to your editor, correct?
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If you're a Mac user, you might be able to export it into Pages (which is free on Macs). I don't use Scrivener but I do use Pages for all my work and I send my mss as a .doc export from Pages.
Yes, I have found this to be true. But you can buy the MSWord software without signing up to Microsoft365. No way I’m paying a monthly fee. I think it’s about $160CAD to buy Word outright. Won’t get updates but that’s okay.
No, you can export your draft as a .doc or .docx from Scrivener, which your editor can open in their own Word. When you review changes or notes, you do have to use a word processor, but you can use LibreOffice or another one to do that. I'm considering getting rid of Word so I've been researching.
It is a little hard to learn the ropes. I actually went through the tutorial (which usually I'd skip); that helped a lot. That was in 2006 or so, though (early adopter) so I'm not sure what the tutorial is like now.
yes, I export to word, clean it up, and send. When I get developmental edits, I import them into Scrivener to work. But for line edits onward I also use Word. I have a super old version before subscription.
When you import it back, how similar is it to your previous Scrivener drafts? I would do this too but I fear the errors in the initial compiling would compound when I transfer it back, and then compiling again would be catastrophic. A game of Telephone but for manuscripts
TBH to minimize errors, I've found it easier to just copy and paste each chapter into Scrivener, reformatting back to my usual. Then I can cut and move stuff around at my leisure. Then I ALSO import the full doc with editor comments, so I can compare, sometimes in split screen.
You have to export it to a .doc format to send to the publisher, as folks have said. You could try to use Pages or Libre Office instead of MS Word to review copyedits and line edits. I’ve heard varying rates of success at doing that because long manuscripts with comments are complicated for software
Also the exporting process in Scrivener is complicated. There are a lot of options. It’s best to clean up the document in Word (or some other program I guess) before sending it in. You shouldn’t send it in without looking at it. Things will likely be off, formatting-wise.
I know, it’s frustrating. If it’s any consolation, I feel like Scrivener is so great and beneficial to my creative process I am happy to deal with the tricky exporting stuff
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Yes, because even if you download it as a Word doc, you're most likely going to have to fix some formatting issues before sending it off. A verse novel mixed with prose is especially tricky. Although I use "preserve formatting," I still have to fix a lot of issues once I dump the book into Word.
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Use Open Office to open the file and check it, but it’s all about the compile presets.