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[verloren1983]

☀I can't believe it's December and there's NO SNOW. We had a little the other day, but nothing stuck. This is completely unheard of where I live. Hello, Global Warming. On the upside.... well, there's no snow. On the downside... with there being no snow and also in general being unseasonably warm (still not, yanno, warm, but warmer than it usually

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[februaryfour]

LSB XE really has a very steep learning curve. I've invested heavily into learning the software, though, and I'm slowly beginning to get it. Damn, this thing is POWERFUL. Scrivener is very different and far more like tabbed text editors such as yWriter. I took a look at the Scrivener tutorial video, and that immediately cured me of any desire to use it--not when I have LSB XE.

My suggestion: read the manual. Then play with it. Spend about a week just playing around with it: input your stories into LSB and see how you work from bits and pieces up to the finished product. (I'm doing this right now.) As you work with it, you really get a feel for just how powerful LSB is.

The problem with LSB is the wicked learning curve (reading the manual helps a teensy bit, but I keep referring back to it--I printed it out.) But damn--it's powerful.

[verloren1983]

See, I watched a lot of the Scrivener tutorial, and I kept going "ooohshiny." It's... a lot easier, I think, and meshes better with how I write. I don't -need- anything complicated- notepad and word documents set up in folders have worked just fine for me in the past. Basically, I'd be interested in improving that system.

However, I'm willing to try this, hence why I downloaded it. I'll probably do more playing around than reading... particularly with things like this, I find that I learn better actually doing things as opposed to just reading how to do it.

We'll see how it goes. Also, I've never hear of yWriter before... it looks interesting, though it seems like that would be more for original work or fanfic that was more on the extensive side. But that was just my impression. XD

[februaryfour]

From the tutorials it seemed like yWriter and PageFour are VERY similar to Scrivener. ^_^ LSB really is in a class of its own (AFAIK).

[jetdragon]

I got your card! Thank you so much! When I opened it, I squeed out loud XD

[verloren1983]

Glad you liked. <3