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silverflight8I think using StoryBox is really helping! Before I was doing things in Word, which had two main disadvantages.
1) I do a lot of stuff in Word. I edit people's stuff (internet peoples' stories, mother's papers, friends' papers and random reports, etc). I write papers, and my résumé, and letters in Word. I take notes in Word. I even use it to archive poetry I've found elsewhere. I know the program really, really well.
2) Word does a lot of things; it's a pretty powerful piece of software. It handles images and text and significant amounts of formatting. For StoryBox...while it has chaptered (and even scened) mini-documents within story, wordtracking and notes and synopsis and outline pages, I don't think it even has spellcheck, not any that I've found. All the formatting tricks in Word just don't exist in this software.
This is good. How much time have I spent learning and fooling around with styles and formatting? (Answer: a lot. I have several customized 'stylesheets' for my documents).
It is a lot more intuitive than Scrivener - that, or Scrivener accustomed me to this style of software. Also, I can write the thing in one big document if I want, or I can do it in chapters, or even scenes tucked within chapters. One of the things that bothered me about Scrivener was the fact that I felt forced to split up all my writing, which isn't usually how I do it. (Of course, since I only tried Scrivener during the mad rush of November, it's possible I missed something. It felt very unintuitive to me, Scrivener.) In Word, I'd just stick in a trio of asterisks and keep going; every time I opened up a new scene in Scrivener I'd be hit in the face with another blank wall of nothingness. This is much better. And it's on free trial indefinitely, which is even better.
I know there are writers on my flist - if any of you guys are interested, the link is here: http://www.storyboxsoftware.com/. Scroll down for an explanation and download link. So far, it hasn't done anything bad to my computer or lost any words or crashed badly!
1) I do a lot of stuff in Word. I edit people's stuff (internet peoples' stories, mother's papers, friends' papers and random reports, etc). I write papers, and my résumé, and letters in Word. I take notes in Word. I even use it to archive poetry I've found elsewhere. I know the program really, really well.
2) Word does a lot of things; it's a pretty powerful piece of software. It handles images and text and significant amounts of formatting. For StoryBox...while it has chaptered (and even scened) mini-documents within story, wordtracking and notes and synopsis and outline pages, I don't think it even has spellcheck, not any that I've found. All the formatting tricks in Word just don't exist in this software.
This is good. How much time have I spent learning and fooling around with styles and formatting? (Answer: a lot. I have several customized 'stylesheets' for my documents).
It is a lot more intuitive than Scrivener - that, or Scrivener accustomed me to this style of software. Also, I can write the thing in one big document if I want, or I can do it in chapters, or even scenes tucked within chapters. One of the things that bothered me about Scrivener was the fact that I felt forced to split up all my writing, which isn't usually how I do it. (Of course, since I only tried Scrivener during the mad rush of November, it's possible I missed something. It felt very unintuitive to me, Scrivener.) In Word, I'd just stick in a trio of asterisks and keep going; every time I opened up a new scene in Scrivener I'd be hit in the face with another blank wall of nothingness. This is much better. And it's on free trial indefinitely, which is even better.
I know there are writers on my flist - if any of you guys are interested, the link is here: http://www.storyboxsoftware.com/. Scroll down for an explanation and download link. So far, it hasn't done anything bad to my computer or lost any words or crashed badly!
