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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
I tried it, too.
I like the way it allows one to handles and organize scenes, among other things.
I have not yet bought the program. I had it running on my Mac using Parellels and Windows 7.
I've looked at WriteItNow5....Anyone have any experience on that one?
(I own Scrivener, but still indulge in occasional searches for something different. I also own and use Vellum...Has anyone actually written anything from start to finish using this program?)
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I cannot tell a lie--I acquired that and Dramatica Pro at around the same time, RIGHT before Createspace went out of biz....and that was not good planning. That event had a massive impact on my biz, and we've been nutty busy ever since, so I haven't had the ability to really use and test either of them. Bad me, I know.
I still love how YWriter handles scenes. Simple, clean, draggable, droppable...you can detail down to the gnat's ass, if you wish, saying that the wrench or the lead pipe or the noose was used in a given scene. (Honestly, this is terrific for not losing cars, too!). You can list the characters, so that you don't bilocate them in two different places at once (the aforementioned character timelining that is so incredible).
Sorry, I don't mean to sound like I'm hawking YWriter. Obviously, not affiliated therewith and I know that it's too
plain for a lot of people. Not fancy enough, not "Mac-y" enough, like Scrivener is.
Just...I keep hearing about
all these
amazing programs, and I test them, and they are all pretty much just the same functionality, recycled.
I should add that
Power Structure is pretty different as is...uh...whats-it's. Crap, that screenwriter. I have his stuff too. I'll think of the name, but I gave up on that one because when I tried to use it on my Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga, it just wouldn't work right. When I think of the name, I'll ...Truby. Truby's something. I can't think of the name, but IF it worked, I think it would have been fairly cool, for a learning environment. Oh, Blockbuster, that's it. Truby's Blockbuster. Underwhelmed with the very, very old interface on that. And remember--I love YWriter, so I'm not one of those that's blown away with "pretty pretty" rather than "functional functional."
Anyway, I also seem to recall that Novel Factory and Dramatica both came with a lotta, lotta instructions. One of these days, when I finally get around to really test-driving them, I might be blown away, but at the moment, my entire useless answer is "dunno."
ETA: One last comment: I nearly forgot to mention that Ywriter added ePUB and MOBI support, in an export, sometime in the last year or so. Rather handy. I haven't investigated it through and through yet, (as a perfesshnul formatter of eBooks), but I thought I should mention that.
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