There’s a way to write your character bio’s, and then import an image of that person. For visual thinkers, people who need to really see their environments and their cast, LSB actually does this better than Scrivener. By taking an established term and sticking it in another manner to the program increases frustration levels. Association already has a default meaning in computers – it means “the software that opens this kind of file.” Like we know that a PDF’s association is Adobe Acrobat, or any other PDF reader. ![]() Why do I have to make a container to put the chapters in? Just give me a default screen or workspace, and a way to create chapters and scenes quickly!Ĭalling something an association is a wrong title for something. Give me easy ways to create a scene and a chapter. Call a container a workspace, tile or a screen – those are industry standard kinds of names. ![]() This one more than anything was why I really couldn’t give LSB a fair shake. If you feel like Scrivener doesn’t give you enough complexity (and Scrivener’s got a lot of functions that you can poke with), LSB might well be for you! I did spend some serious time going through the tutorials on how to learn LSB, but even with those, I felt like the program was overly complex. Like Scrivener, there’s a couple of different ways to do everything. Then you’d need to really understand associations and containers. If you decided to play with LSB and bought it, you’d have to really dedicate a serious month to learning how to change the look of it (I feel like I’m in some kind of creepy horror movie, with dark grays and lighter grays, and stark white), and then learn how to use it. But LSB has containers, and associations, and… It’s a little harder to get into it and just write. Writeway adds to the complexity by its add on styles (I never really messed with them). With Scrivener and Writeway, you just create a project from a template, open a scene and start typing. LSB has a dizzying array of functions and features, but no really easy way to just plug in and start typing. They would tell me I didn’t really conquer the learning curve, and they’re right. They are far outnumbered by Scrivener addicts, but still, there are die hards. There are die-hard Story Binder users out there who love this program. I’ve tried it several times, and it fell flat for me for a number of reasons. There’s a lot out there, and some of it is interesting. ![]() Recently, I did one of my periodic searches around the internet for other writing software.
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