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Originally Posted by HappyMartin
I have never come across a tutorial like it either. Not knowing anything about this type of software I was very grateful for it.
It was a leap of faith for me. You don't know what you don't know and I had to believe people when they said this software would be useful. I get it now. If only my typing was a bit faster. I learnt to touch type last month. My speed is better than it was but this has been a very steep learning curve for me.
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It's a nice tutorial for Scrivener, no argument. Wish that BB6 had something REMOTELY as decent. It looks to be a very comprehensive, smart piece of software, but it's obviously crappily maintained. I tried to figure out what was making it glitchy on Win8, and thus tried to see what would pop up in compatibility-mode troubleshooting, and it showed not as Win7 compatible, but WinXP compatible--which means it's closer to 10 years in age, and not upgraded.
It's frustrating as hell. The BB6 software ain't cheap (with the genre add-in, basically, you're looking at $200USD). It has some very ODD software conventions--it purportedly saves constantly, so if you try to save--like you're accustomed to--it closes the damn program when it does. That one is driving me bonkers. It now has some type of weirdo software glitch, and because they don't really have 24/7 support--or even the usual support (no forums, no nuzzing), I'll now have to wait until Monday to try to get an answer.
Vis-a-vis Scrivener--I still find that while it's a perfectly nice program, most of what people really like about it, the outline view on the left, is identical to what you get in Document Pane view in Word. Yes, the other things--tagging, etc.,--are very nice. But at the moment, I'm still leaning toward Power Structure, plus (to a now-lesser-extent) Snowflake Pro (character development portion) to YWriter for the final, actual writing. The tools that I seem to gravitate toward are definitely outlining and structure tools, over what to me seem to be more word-processing tools.
IF BB6 actually works, I'd personally lean more toward it and/or PS, plus a writing tool of some type--whether it's Word, Scrivener or YWriter (or Pages, or Wordperfect, etc.) for the final ms. A nice feature of PS is that you can shift it to "Power Access," which puts a skinny horizontal bar at the top of the screen, while you're working in something else (like Word)...you can navigate around inside Power Structure, to find the scene notes you have for the scene, character stuff, plot points--basically, it's a tiny strip that allows you to access/see everything you've done in PS, as writing prompts or whatever. Now, that's really handy.
STILL liking good old YWriter for the final writing, though. You can't beat what it does for you, scene-by-scene, IMHO.
FWIW.
Hitch