Judging from the tutorial video I watched, the Scrivener would be useful for me. I tried to download it but it doesn't want to be on my computer. I get an error message, don't know why. I tried both the free trial version and I also tried to buy it. No luck. So I gave up on that.
(I don't usually have problems with that sort of thing but it just didn't want to stay on my comp. I have a pc.)
So I found yWriter, which seems to have a lot of the features I want. The only thing is, I liked that you could write the whole thing on Scrivener and have the outlines etc next to it on the screen. There doesn't seem to be anywhere really to write in yWriter, it's just for outlining?
I see that you can write so that it turns up down below in the Content field, but that is so small, it's difficult to get a real feel for the written piece.
Also, it's not possible to save what you've written, to a memory stick or something? I see that you can do back ups, but only to a different place on your computer, I think? Which means if your computer collapses, you still lose everything. I like to save everything on a memory pen, just in case.
Of course, you can copy and paste it into a Word document when you're done writing for the day, but then if you go back and change what you've written, you need to do those same changes to the document you've saved in Word, and it just adds to your work.
I just downloaded yWriter today, though, so I might have overlooked some features...