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Hope I'm not overstepping any bounds here, but I just thought I'd pop in and mention this since it might be of a lot of interest to folks here. I recently got the privelege to beta test a piece of online novel writing software known as Novlr. It allows you to rearrange and organize chapters as seperate documents in a manner similar to Scrivener, but has a much simpler interface. Currently, it's not very feature rich, but new features have been promised. The creator's of this software have only reach £5536 of their £20,000 (that's roughly 32,500 USD) goal on kickstarer, but they only have until the October 7th to raise the funds they need and at the current rate I doubt they'll reach their goal.
Honestly, I still prefer Scrivener, but that may change as new features are added to Novlr. I did fork over a small pitance because i do believe the software has potential particularly the cross-plaform capability. If you have the cash and it strikes your fancy please consider donating.
Also...
While you're at it, it's probably not a bad idea to donate some much needed money to the hatbox. Our friendly neighborhood admins have been hard at work updating the site and every little bit helps keep the site running. I plan to do so sometime in the next week.
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I went and looked at Novlr
It looks really neat. And I definitely get a sense of the enthusiasm that the project creators have. I guess my only problem with it is that I don't see what Novlr brings that's new to the market. The last couple of years the feature of the moment has been Markup compatibility for bloggers. Before that it's been exporting to LaTex, full screen writing, separating novels into project binders with the ability to sub-divide your prose as far as you want to go.
On second thought, maybe it's that the application is web-based, and will run on mobile as well as desktop browsers. It also supports off-line work.
It's cool looking, but with Scrivener, Storymill, Ulysses, Storyist, WriterPro (and that's just the first five off the top of my head for Mac), I don't see enough of a reason to make the jump.
~And so it goes...
linux
I'm primarily a linux (a Windows-linux dual boot) user so my choices are severely more limited on my end. Fortunately, Scrivener for Windows works wonderfully when ran under wine. Offline is a planned feature, the cross-platform capability would be the main draw for me. Another cool feature that's been promised is collaboration.
Have delightfully devious day,
back in the day...
When I still had my Macbook Pro, I did a dual boot with Windows so I'd have a good game platform. I never did a lot with the Windows apps that are for writers.
~And so it goes...