You are so inspiring, Nick. 🤩

They’re all good stories, for real. Start at the front! 🫶

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Same! I bought my original copy at full price and upgraded since at full (upgrade) price since. Zero regrets. I love that this product exists.

Yeah, I totally get all this.

Yeah—I can't imagine writing a novel in a flat document. At all. Nor do I want to manage that novel in the Finder. Having lived in Scrivener, anything else is pure insanity (to me).

But, I still do outside critting/editing with Word or Pages. I take those edits and apply them to my Scrivener docs.

The biggest thing you'll give up from Google is shared editing. But then, I don't like shared editing. I'd rather trade Apple Pages or Word docs back and forth with my critters/editors—all day long.

If you have any more questions, don't hesitate to ask! Scrivener is rarely on sale. <end>

This is also important (to me): not having your work slurped into Google's AI training or profiling of you is tremendously valuable (to me). Having my work stored on my computer—and not on the cloud where it could be taken away at any point—is important (to me). <cont.>

Regardless of whether Scrivener breaks your imported document automatically, it's very easy to break it up by hand (Right/CTRL-click > Split at Selection. This would be largely a one-time chore. <cont.>

This may turn into a long-multipart answer! Be forewarned! 😅

You can import docx files directly. You may have to export from Google to docx to import your Google files.

One of the absolutely best Scrivener features is the ability to have separate documents for individual scenes/chapters. <cont.>

Amazing! And I’m glad the paperbacks are already landing.

Thanks for the note. 🫶

Hell to the yeah! I love this, Lonnie!

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Your first in series will most likely be eligible, still.

I wasn’t trying to be flippant. It sucks finding out about competitions like this after it’s closed.

But, put it in your calendar for next year! Competing in the last one was tremendously fun. I recommend it.

Doh! At least there will be another.

Nice work, Nick. 🦾

Thoughts and prayers during this trying time. 🙏