I’ve been using LivingWriter for a little over 6 months now to write a novel. There are features of this application that are great to use like logging how much you’ve written per session, organizing writing per chapter, and having the ability to organize and create detailed notes for your writing.
However there are severe problems with LivingWriter’s newest update and persistent problems that the developers haven’t taken immediate action in fixing. Updating a UI for quality of life is all well and good. But still having issues where hours of your writing in a session completely disappears is inexcusable to sell to a consumer.
Small features in this version like page count, and the ability to reorder chapters within your manuscript have also been completely removed or hidden in some capacity. Which were features really selling the product for me as a user.
It isn’t that LivingWriter is a bad product with no redeeming qualities. But the fact that these paramount issues have not gone immediately corrected by it’s staff means that there is a real disconnect when maintaining this product for its user base. Especially considering it’s user base has to PAY for a S U B S C R I P T I O N to use it.
There aren’t many other choices out there for writing software. But I’d suggest anyone look for alternative apps that are better tailored to your writing needs before immediately settling on this one.
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ianjw
Fix your product.
