That feature is one of the most important design aspects of a tool like this: it must be designed to allow the anxious writer to immediately start writing, and, over time, begin to utilize deeper features. However, because many writers just want to dig in, StoryMill allows the user to quick start and simply construct chapters, one by one. Multiple Pane Approach, Items, Data & Metadataįor example, the writer can create multiple scenes, give them timelines and pre-built characters, then link them together to build a chapter. To that end, StoryMill uses the popular multi-pane approach of Apple Cocoa apps to build chapters, scenes, actors, locations, notes, and tasks.
STORYMILL REVIEWS PC
While some modern writers - and every writer before the advent of the PC - can hold everything in their heads and just let it flow, some can benefit from a tool that assists with the cataloging and organization of these components of a novel. Writing a novel is basically the art of stitching together a story that has a story line, characters, locations, and scenes.
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(For those who are looking for computer assistance with a screenplay, Mariner Software has a similar product, Montage.) More on that, and solutions, later.įor starters, it's appropriate to provide an overview of the structure of StoryMill. It is a beautiful, concise, thorough User Guide that tells the reader what. That introspective part of the process also comes into play in evaluating the User Guide for Story Mill.
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While I will be discussing the mechanics of StoryMill, from a Mac OS X application viewpoint, such a review would be incomplete, in my opinion as a writer, without added perspective on how the tool might fit into a writer's psyche and personality.Īfter all, if one merely evaluates the tool as a Mac app, then the review doesn't serve the prospective writer well.
Writing a review of a product that assists a writer with writing is an endeavor fraught with irony, opinion, perspective and experience. Story Mill is a very technical tool that may not appeal to free spirited writers. It exploits the strengths of a computer, especially in the context of Mac OS X and a Cocoa application, to assist the novelist with scenes, timelines, characters, locations and some tactical assistance such as cliché detection. StoryMill is a writer's tool that provides organization and composition support for writing a novel.
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