I bought it at the full price.

The main problem I have it that NewNovelist is *very* focused on getting you to write a specific kind of story. That's very frustrating for me, really - it doesn't seem to fit the way I want to write. I can understand that it's doing it to try to make my story better - but it's also forcing me down a very narrow lane.

I like to write in a fairly free-form way, in which my characters just create the story around a very skeleton plot. So I don't know much about the story as it starts, and won't until it's in progress. NewNovelist makes me feel like I should have all my characters, all my events, all my places and all of my story written already before I use it.

It wasn't a complete waste of money - it reinforced ome good writing patterns, and I learnt the idea of specific story types from it. But how well do you think it copes with Space Opera? Or with a P. G. Wodehouse-ian drama? The damned thing's designed for chick lit and detective novels, and that's about it. :-|

*ahem*

Sorry. Got a bit ranty there. But thanks for the pointer, and maybe I should re-install NewNovelist and give it another try...