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I need recommendations on a preferred writing program
Dresdenus Prime:
I definately saw some similarities when I was looking at photos and abilties of the two programs. So far so good!
LizW65:
I just use Word too. Outlines, research, character sheets, etc, all go into a loose-leaf binder with tabbed pages for easy access.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Dresdenus Prime on June 30, 2011, 11:45:06 PM ---It's tough to list my requirements when I'm a first time author. But I can say that my biggest weakness is probably organization. I was looking through authorcraft boards and saw the one with tool listings. I went to the WriteWay website and looked at their video tour and I loved how everything could be organized by folders and subfolders. It had tabs and locations to put your characters, their feelings at the moment, what the scene should be. I feel like these are normal things I should be considering for every chapter.
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Fair enough. I tend to work with the chapter files I am working on, the overall plan of the order the chapters go in, and a "notes" file in which any ideas I have about any of those topics that isn't for immediate application gets put, usually under the chapter where it will go. (I tend to rearrange chapters a fair bit in early drafts.) none of this needs more than a text editor which can have half a dozen files open at once.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: LizW65 on July 01, 2011, 02:44:26 AM ---I just use Word too. Outlines, research, character sheets, etc, all go into a loose-leaf binder with tabbed pages for easy access.
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Gosh, people do vary. Print copies are in my mind for agents and editors, and if the agents and editors in question did not want it that way, I would not be doing it even then.
Some of my rough notes are on paper, only because I feel leery of taking writing notes on my work computer and sometimes I get ideas in work, but I never feel entirely confident until they have been put in a notes file on a computer.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Kali on June 30, 2011, 11:51:42 PM ---So I like MS Word. It does what I need it to, which is mainly stay the heck outta my way while I work.
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I wish it stayed out of the way enough for me to write in it comfortably; I used it for the last 20kwords of my 45-kword eight-day deathmarch last September because my laptop went into a coma and it's what I had on my desktop, and I just find the ways in which it wants to be a formatter as well as a text editor intensely irritating.
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