I was just looking at Scrivener the other day. It's tempting me to hack the bejesus out of my laptop and put OSX on it.

There's a couple of PC programs vaguely like it, but none of them are as cool.

I like Scrivener a lot. It fits my working style. I especially like the ability to put webpages and images and other stuff under 'reasearch' and to put comments on the side as I go.

I haven't had any problems outputting for printing (but I don't print from Scrivener much because I don't currently have a printer that works at home with my current Mac).

However, I have Word 2008 and have encountered some peculiarities going from Scrivener to 2008 which I currently am fixing by running it through Google Docs first (this isn't that complicated except that every time I do it I have to remember what I did last time...I suppose someday I should write it down). I would just print from Scrivener except what I usually want is a file to send to other people.

More details if you want them...and it's worth it for me getting around the minor file annoyance because of the other features I get

I don't have any problem with the MSS output, and I've been using Scriv since it was beta. Though I do like to "compile" my draft then fiddle with it in Pages. I don't need to, I just like the feeling of the manuscript being a finished, singular document rather than a hundred-scene spaghetti monster thing.

If you do have any problem, the guy who wrote the program is very helpful and responsive.

Pop in "Kill 'em All" and blast some "Jump in the Fire!!"

"Rar"?

Isn't that something cute LOLKittens say?

"Rar!"

Go see Iron Man before everyone starts posting annoyingly critical hipster reviews and ruins it for you! It is AWESOME

I tried Scrivener. The biggest drawback is printing/formatting.

With Scrivener, you have to dump to Word to print it. It's fast and easy but the formatting isn't great. It's serviceable for early drafts without tweaking in Word.

But for a final draft, you're going to be doing some format work in Word.

Keith, the guy who wrote Scrivener, is a very nice person. And I think the program is great for the early stages of drafting -- keeping everything organized, taking notes, etc.

I anticipate that I'll use it again when I begin my next novel. With all the non-narrative places to put information, I think Scrivener will really help me with the issue I have of too much backstory. But I'll probably dump it all over into Word at some point for the polish and glitter.

I also use Omni Outliner. I'm using that in addition to Word right now (on Memories) because I'm trying to sort out the plot bits for the second half.