Montage - A review and comparison to Storymill - Todd Ransom

Hello,

My name is Todd Ransom and I am the lead developer on both Montage and StoryMill.

The fact is that the screenplay and novel writing markets are very different. Mariner's goal with these products is not to make a single "jack of all trades, master of none" application. Our goal is to have two separate best of breed applications. We have no desire to add the complexities of screenplay writing into our novel writing application or vice versa. Not only is structure and terminology of the two formats very different, there are also things like production support in the screenplay industry which would only be confusing to novel writers.

We often use one of the applications as a test bed for a new feature before bringing that new feature into the other application. This is why you see some features in StoryMill that are not yet present in Montage. Now that they are implemented in StoryMill and we have received a nice amount of user feedback we can consider adapting these features to Montage. Indeed, we do have plans to add some of the things you mention to Montage.

If you would like to help us in determining which features would be most valuable to you in each product I encourage you to join our beta team, which you can do here:

http://marinersoftware.com/sitepage.php?page=120

thanks,
Todd Ransom
Montage/StoryMill development
Mariner Software

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Saturday, May 17 2008 @ 10:54 AM PDT

Montage - A review and comparison to Storymill - grh-svo

Planning to write for a living, huh? Don't give up your day job. Your rambling waffle was tough to wade through. Stylistically, your text sucks. Sorry.

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Friday, June 13 2008 @ 08:59 PM PDT