After months of circling around the idea like a suspicious cat, I bought Scrivener yesterday.

Everyone said it was the tool for writers. And still, I resisted for as long as possible (more than a year, to be honest) — partly because I’m stubborn, partly because I thought I could get away with working through a patchwork of Google Docs, scattered notes, screenshots, voice memos, and whatever chaotic system I was pretending was “organized” and the best fit for me.

But there comes a moment in every writer’s journey when you have to stop fighting the obvious.
Just get the damn tool and stop trying to make things that were not built for the job… do the job.

Scrivener is built for writers. I thought it was built for hardcore, ten-published-books writers, but like any other software, you learn as you go. So after I finally found a tool that works for my visual brain (Milanote), I’m pairing it with Scrivener for the writing part.

And I’m hoping I’m finally there with tools — nothing else to learn, nothing else to tweak. This is it. The toolkit is complete.

And instead of importing my mess, I’m doing something radical: I’m starting from scratch. Blank project, clean structure. No baggage (if only we could do this in real life!), just the story I want to tell now.

It’s liberating. It’s the start of something new — a more intentional writing phase, a better structure, and tools that finally organize the chaotic process of writing a book.