So, Scrivener (the writing software) is on sale for half price.

[agilebrit]

At Amazon. My Writing Buddy told me about this a few weeks ago, but I balked at the $40 pricetag for something I wasn't sure I'd use. However, I've heard good things about it and know people who swear by it, so I dropped $20 on it today and will use it to write my Next Thing (whatever that is--I'm thinking the story for the Fearful Symmetries antho

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[highlander_ii]

I first picked up freebie versions of scrivener when someone recommended it for organizing one's fandom-related bingo cards - and it works out really well for that.

But lately, I've been co-writing this monster of a fanfic and it's in pieces, and scrivener has been super-awesome for putting those pieces in some kind of order that make chronological and plot-y sense.

I did NaNo one year and got a coupon code to get some $$ off - otherwise i'd still be dl'ing the trial version on repeat.

but yes - highly rec! =)

[werewolf_hacker]

I'll need to poke the tutorial so I can see what-all it will do for me. But apparently the tutorial is 2 hours long, and I'm balking a little at that. Which is stupid, because it's not like I have anything better to do right now while I've got the new story percolating...

[highlander_ii]

haha - I... didn't look at the tutorial at all. I just started poking the thing. =)

it has notecards that you can write snippets or summaries on, then you 'expand' the notecard and can write the scenes and such in there... there's also a sort of 'timeline' view so you can see if your points/scenes are in the right order... which is v. cool!

And you can rearrange the notecards w/ drag-drop.

there's probably a LOT more you can do with it too - oh! and it 'concatenates' all your scenes into 1 file and will do various formats for you too.

I may peek at the tutorial one day... usually I just google around for what I need to do and find stuff that way. *g*