Once I figured them out, though, I kind of fell in love with them.
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They are pre-formatted for characters, settings, plot, and sections, and it took me a couple tries to understand how to use them. The one downside is at this point, the iOS and Mac versions to not sync with each other.
If you like using an iPad, you could get a bluetooth keyboard and work almost exactly like you do on a laptop, though there are not as many features on the iOS version. Some might not be interested in this and I now mostly use my laptop, but one thing I loved about writing on my iPad was the portability and comfort. As I mentioned before, Storyist has an iPad app, which Scrivener does not yet have. Instead of having information spread out throughout multiple programs and notebooks (Oh, who am I kidding? I still do this.), there are areas in each program to collect research, notes, and images. This is such a helpful way to stay organized. They both have outliner views as well with a list of the chapters and scenes with the details you’ve written in. Index cards will link directly to individual scenes, making it easy to switch from outlining to writing, and allowing you to move them around freely as your story changes and grows. In both programs, you can create a index cards for each scene with notes about what you’d like to include in that scene. The both also have full screen view to limit distractions. You can also split the screen to see your index cards as you write, or between two different scenes–say, if you want to copy from one and paste into another. As you can see in my picture above, I like to be able to look at my characters as I work. This alone is worth the cost of either program. Both programs allow you to create sections for new chapters and new scenes, and lists them in a menu on the left for easy navigation.
To me, there is nothing worse than scrolling through a never-ending Word document to insert a new scene, or especially to reorganize several scenes or chapters. In my opinion, the best reason to use any novel-writing software is the chapter and scene breakdown.
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