StoryMill versus Scrivener

Once again I am at the stage of contemplating to write a story. Or several stories. This wave hits me from time to time, but memories of the most pathetic piece of mashed together something you can think of – it was my first novel which I wrote at the age of 11 – always stops me right then and there in my tracks.

But oddly enough this time I took it a few steps further and I am not even sure if I am now done or not. The probability is quite hight that it will become just one of the hot hot hot items which fades away way to quickly and then is nothing but unfinished electrons.

And so what?

This reaching out once again had me look at some software for organizing and writing a story. The best which I have found for the Mac are Scrivener, StoryMill and Stoyist.

To Storyist I can’t say much, reading the features sounds really cool and I am sure they are, but once opened I did not like the interface so much, it seems just too much like Pages and if I would want to write in Pages I don’t need another application, right?

Bear uses Scrivener and is happy with that, but after playing around with StoryMill and Scrivener my heart fell for the first – I definitely like the time line and the interface feels comfortable for me. Issues which some reviews had criticized have meanwhile been addressed (global search exists for example) and by chance I found a current MacUpdatePromo with a 25% off StoryMill deal – something I could not resist.

Happy writing!