psa: scrivener

[coraa]

For those of you (like me) who have been eagerly awaiting a Windows edition of Scrivener (a piece of writing software, very well-spoken-of, previously available only on Mac): there's now a beta version out! I installed it and have been playing with it. It's shiiiiiiiiny. I have to say, it blows poor Liquid Story Binder out of the water.

The freely-downloadable beta versions will stop working when the full version is available for sale, but there's also a deal where it's going to be half off for people who 'win' NaNoWriMo.

Anyway, info and links are here: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/nanowrimo.html

Comments

[meaghan_bullock]

Yay for Scrivener!

I tried it out when I got my Mac; overall I think I do actually prefer LSB, but Scrivener certainly is prettier, I will grant it that.

[rhinemouse.livejournal.com]

Sweet! I started using Scrivener a little before last year's NaNoWriMo, and it is AWESOME. I love how I can write in whatever funky fonts I want and still convert to standard manuscript format in an instant. (Now if they would only support regular expressions...)

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

I like it so far, but I'm still having mixed feelings, I admit. It's not got some of the stuff I like best about LSB, but that's partly because I'm such an insane visual creature. I also find some of the corkboard stuff does not work the way I want it to work, which vexes me, but that's OK. I really really really want to be able to change the spacing right now--I know that's in development, but it's bugging me. I really like being able to flit from document pane to document pane, though. It's kind of amazing how that works. I mean, that's the whole point, obvs, but I'm still very enchanted with that part. Heh.