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Who uses novel writing software?
King Shisa:
--- Quote from: blgarver on November 08, 2007, 03:15:36 PM ---I just downloaded the spacejock software. I haven't used it much, but it seems like it might be helpful to those outliner types.
I have been wanting to get that program called "Writer's Blocks". It looked pretty interesting, but it's like 150 bucks.
Right now it's good 'ol Word, though.
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What's the gist of Spacejock? I'm always looking for a helpful program (I sometimes use Dramatica, but not often).
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: redneckwitch18 on November 15, 2007, 10:52:18 PM ---I'm sort of electronically challenged, so what's so bad about Micrsoft word? I have to use it for school (double-spacing and all that jazz-when really it should be about what's in the paper not its font or paragraph format)
Why do people hate Microsoft word? ???
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Well, because it's crashy with documents of any size, because it's a pig to make all the associated bits and bobs show up in colours I can actually read - I have very sensitive eyes and really need to do any reading of any length on a screen with bright text on a dark background - because the interface is a poorly organised mess even once you have killed the darned paperclip, and above all, because writing text and formatting it are separate functions which it's a dopey notion to conflate.
Suilan:
--- Quote ---I'm sort of electronically challenged, so what's so bad about Micrsoft word?
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Because all the default settings are wrong and the program is doing funny stuff to your text and you have to spend too much time trying to figure out why the program is doing it and how to make it stop doing it. Word tries to be smarter than the writer when it is plain dumb. It also messes around with your formatting. If I define half a dozen paragraph formats I know what I am doing and I want to use this half dozen formats, really, honestly, and I don't want the program to try to second-guess me and define new formats where it thinks I might like some until the list of formats is ten feet long and it is impossible to find the one you want. Whenever I do have to write a text in Word because there is no way around it I feel like I am standing on quicksand, my text and formatting utterly unstable.
King Shisa:
Well, I DL'ed spacejock and found it essentially useless. Maybe it's just me, but after trying several different programs I'd rather just hash it all out in outline form in MS Word (which has never, ever given me any kind of problem).
redneckwitch18:
--- Quote from: King Shisa on November 17, 2007, 05:08:28 AM ---Well, I DL'ed spacejock and found it essentially useless. Maybe it's just me, but after trying several different programs I'd rather just hash it all out in outline form in MS Word (which has never, ever given me any kind of problem).
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I second this :)
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