Scrivener is a powerful content-generation tool that allows writers to 
concentrate on composing and structuring long and difficult documents. 
While it gives complete control of the formatting, its focus is on 
helping users get to the end of that awkward first draft. Scrivener lets 
writers work in any order they want and gives them tools for planning 
and restructuring their work . Whether you like to plan everything 
in advance, write first and structure later, or do a bit of both, Scrivener 
supports the way you work. Scrivener runs on Windows, Mac and Linux and is 
used by all kinds of writers including novelists, short-story writers, 
screenwriters, playwrights, comedians, lawyers, journalists, lecturers, 
academics and students, biographers and memoirists, business and 
technical writers, comics and graphic novel writers, translators, 
songwriters and more. 

REQUIREMENTS 
Scrivener for Windows will run on Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP with Microsoft Redistributable C++ Runtime installed. If you have problems launching Scrivener with Windows XP, please read the TROUBLESHOOTING section for steps on how to resolve this. 

INSTALLATION 
To install Scrivener, just double-click the Scrivener installer icon 
and follow the prompts. 

Note that if you have ever used Scrivener Beta, it is strongly 
recommended that you uninstall all instances of it from your computer 
before installing Scrivener. 

GETTING UP AND RUNNING 
When you first run Scrivener, the new project dialog will be 
displayed. If this is the first time you have used Scrivener, you will 
most likely want to open up the 'Interactive Tutorial' first (see 
below). 

TROUBLESHOOTING 
If Scrivener fails to launch and the following Windows error message 
appears: 
"This application has failed to start because the application 
configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this 
problem." 

This is due to the Microsoft Redistributable C++ Runtime not being 
installed on your machine. This is easily fixed by opening Windows 
Explorer and navigating to the folder where Scrivener was installed. 
In the Scrivener folder, you will find a folder called 'resources'; 
in this folder is another called 'vcpp runtime'. Open the 'vcpp runtime' 
folder, double-click on the 'vcredist_x86.exe' file within it and 
follow the installer prompts to install the missing Microsoft 
Redistributable C++ Runtime files. 

In most cases, the path to the Microsoft installer will be similar to 
the following: 
For 32bit Windows: C:Program FilesScrivenerresourcesvcpp 
runtimevcredist_x86.exe 
For 64bit Windows C:Program Files (x86)Scrivenerresourcesvcpp 
runtimevcredist_x86.exe