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Originally Posted by gmw
Ah, the glitziest of the glitzy. The writer's most complete procrastination collection all in one product.  And it still doesn't have a proper styles based editor. 
More seriously: I did look at it, but this was some years ago - I can't remember the version number off-hand. It really was fancy, and it really was feature rich (might we say overload?), but when it came down to it I thought it ran short against yWriter for ease of getting started, and also short against the Windows version of Scrivener (which is/was well behind the Mac version at the time I was looking at these last) for both ease of getting started and practical day to day use. It seemed to me that with LSB there was too much emphasis on all the bits around writing, and not enough on the basics of actually writing. ... But, as I said, that assessment is some years old now, LSB may have improved. |
I took a look at it and noted it is for sale at half price, $22.98 (USD). It is overwhelming with all those floating popup windows! However I do notice that it addresses most of my complaints about the others.
- It's a fairly good writing environment. (not perfect, but usable)
- While it claims to be a Chapters based environment, there is a tutorial that shows how to work with Scenes that seems do-able without being irritating.
- I don't think it's any less 'fiddly' than yWriter, though those 'floating' windows are intimidating.
I also note there are some older video tutorials on YouTube that seem useful.
I don't know, I've downloaded the free trial, I'll probably spend the day with this software trying to get used to it. I hope I like it well enough to pay for it at the reduced price.
(I'm a sucker for half priced offers, pathetic, I know)