Of course it might be that I had phenomenal bad luck both with losing the work and with the customer service. When I told them I’d already done that multiple times they asked me to send them my save file so they could retrieve the lost work.Īfter two more weeks, I wrote to ask them if they could tell me what had happened, even if they just said they couldn’t retrieve the work. Customer support (after a week’s delay) told me to restart. But then one day I tried it and they didn’t. This had happened before and after some struggling with customer support I was told that I needed to restart and they would appear. Two of the three scenes just disappeared. The way I lost my work was by splitting a chapter into scenes. You have to search it chapter by chapter. Having neatly arranged your work into scenes within chapters, there is now no way to search the entire work. But at the same time, it has no global search function. You can link up locations, times and characters to scenes so the app knows exactly which characters are in which scene and when and where it takes place. But none of them stated clearly how much more professional, attractive and generally workable Scrivener is than Storymill, and I wish they had. Storymill has some features Scrivener lacks and vice versa. My basis is that I read a number of comparative reviews before settling on which app to use for writing my next novel, and all of them compared the features in the apps. So that isn’t my basis for writing this mini-review. I suppose there are few products with which someone hasn’t had a bad experience.
I call this a prejudice because I have seen angry customer reviews of various things by people who have had a bad experience, and generally they aren’t helpful. I know why Storymill is so called, because it ground a sizable chunk of my current story to powder.
I use it for almost all my writing.I’ll start by stating my prejudice.
SCRIVENER VS STORYMILL SOFTWARE
I find Scrivener a very streamlined piece of software for writers and am happy with it. You can have two parts of text viewed side-by-side, for comparison or reference, you can even have that second chapter in the same window where you are just writing chapter nineteen, because their events are closely linked - all without any copy-pasting. You can add labels, status and even your own meta-data to separate pieces of text, so you have a say on how it all will be sorted. You can append all the research files you need to the project, for fast in-application reference. In the end, when you are ready to export, it all comes together into a single text. One of the big features of scrivener is that you can organize the project however you want, by chapter, by scene, anything. Scrivener is a writing tool that is great whether you write short stories, novels, scripts and even essays or scientific articles. I see some have touched on it already, but I think Scrivener deserves an explanation, because it is truly a great piece of software (and even though it isn't free, the price isn't that hefty, either).
SCRIVENER VS STORYMILL CODE
I do use Markdown Extras to get support for footnotes, fenced code blocks, definition lists, etc. I put together a script to translate from Markdown directly to LaTeX for when HTML isn't my target output, and may add other formats down the road. I write in Markdown, because it's easy to deal with in plain text mode and does not distract me from my writing. Keeping them on separate desktops, I can shift back and forth as needed without getting distracted when I'm writing in Pyroom.
SCRIVENER VS STORYMILL FREE
I use Freemind (also free and open source) to manage my notes. The colors, box dimensions, font, and autosave behavior are configurable, and that's it. It runs in fullscreen mode only, providing you with an eye-strain easing green box of text on a black background. Pyroom is a free, open source editor with no bells and whistles. So, when writing at my computer instead of with my fountain pens or typewriter, I use Pyroom.
I have a tendency to get distracted by the shiny. I've tried many of the things mentioned above, but they never really worked for me.
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