Guides
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Guides Vellum on Windows: Your Actual Options Vellum only runs on a Mac and its makers have said that won't change. Here are the real options if you're on Windows: renting a Mac, buying a cheap one, or using a formatting tool that runs anywhere. -
Guides The Best Book Writing Software for Self-Publishing Novelists (2026) A no-hype guide to the writing tools novelists actually use (Scrivener, Vellum, Atticus, Ulysses, Dabble, Reedsy, and Galley), sorted by what you need each one to do. -
Guides Book Writing Software Without a Subscription Every serious book writing and formatting tool you can buy once instead of renting, what each one costs, and the subscription tools that also sell a lifetime licence. -
Guides How to Back Up a Novel Properly Why a single copy in the cloud isn't a backup, the 3-2-1 rule in plain terms for a novelist, and the formats your manuscript should be saved in so you can open it in twenty years. -
Guides Getting a Scrivener Project Into Word Without Wrecking It How to compile a Scrivener project to a clean Word document for an editor, an agent or another tool, and the settings that cause most of the mess. -
Guides Does Scrivener Use AI? And Which Writing Apps Do Scrivener has no AI in it, but on a Mac you may still see Apple's AI writing tools inside it. Here's where each popular writing app stands on AI, and how to turn off the parts that come from your operating system. -
Guides Scrivener vs Vellum: Which One Does What Scrivener and Vellum aren't rivals. One is for writing a book and the other is for formatting it. Here's what each one is good at, what they cost, and how people use them together.