Less expensive alternate ways to get Adobe Story?

I love Story, but looking at what CS Live is going to cost come April, I'm really thinking I should look elsewhere for my screen writing needs. Possibly go back to Celtx for awhile till I find something I can buy and keep using. I don't use, and don't anticipate using other CS Live programs, so for me $200-$300 a year is really steep (not to mention I could barely afford it anyway with the cost of College these days.)
So that leaves me with three questions. Firstly, will Adobe have an option to only pay for the pieces of Live we want to use, like just paying (even if it is a yearly fee) for Adobe Story for less money? Or will there be a way to just buy Adobe Story without getting all the CS Live bells and whistles with it? Or will there be a student discount like with Adobe's other programs? I really just use the desktop App and don't really use the "live" features of it so at least for awhile the price just isn't worth it to me, nice as the integration and feel is.
I'm sure that the Live service is targeted at businesses who can afford the price, but I'm sure I'm not the only individual who knows that when April comes, there's either going to have to be an alternate, cheaper way to handle it, or we're going to have to jump ship.
Just wanted to throw that out there since I can't find much discussion on it.

IT is duplication Celtx with a Flash interface that is ridgid and not user friendly. It is very Adobe (pdf'y), and not enough story writing functions. Writing is the first component of creative commnications —even Celtx has a Novel category. At the root, words tell the story, not a production manager or producer or budget breakdown. Without a solid, well-written story, that is proofed, at final draft status, all other film making functions have a greater chance of failing.
Place a a program like WORD or OPenOffice word prcessor on top of it and it might work. For as much as I detest MS,  MS WORD is the dominent word processor app. for 99% of creative writers.
By the way Celtx is at a holiday mark down price of $9.95.

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