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Tools for Writers
Mickey Finn:
This is a place to post nifty software for writers.
This is my favorite so far:
http://www.ravensheadservices.com/
Great for organizing, very configurable, works on Mac & PC, website has great demos and the download is fully functional to try out yourself (except you can't actually save work).
Mac users apparently have something else that's extremely kickass but will never be made for PC.
RobJN:
--- Quote from: Mickey Finn on December 21, 2009, 03:15:29 PM ---Mac users apparently have something else that's extremely kickass but will never be made for PC.
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That might be Scrivener: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html
That's it! - Mickey
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: RobJN on December 24, 2009, 11:10:27 PM ---That might be Scrivener: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html
That's it! - Mickey
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Along with this(for Macs), there's also Jer's Novel Writer which has similar features, though not the corkboard, and also has a sidebar where you can use/customize margin notes for editing and such.
Yeratel:
For the stuff I've written, the tools for outlining, story boards, and first drafts have always been yellow legal pads, a box of rollerball pens, and PostIt notes for rearranging things. Ideas just seem to flow more freely through a pen on paper, for me, at least. Once it's actually out of my head and in my hands, then the PC word processor can do the spell checking and final editing and revisions. Kind of old fashioned, I guess, but when I first started writing research papers and short stories, I had an Underwood manual typewriter, and I only wanted to have to type up the final revision once.
Murphy's Stunt Double:
I like it!
I've actually decided to start writing the novel that has been stewing around in my head for almost 20 years, and I want to go about it in a business-like way. In the past, I've just started writing and "discovered" the story as it came out, but that's never really worked to get a finished product for me. I get lost in the story, editing, revising, etc.
I'm thinking of trying the suggestions in Jim's blog, but I wonder if there's other suggestions you all might have for me?
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