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backscatter712

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19. Have you checked out Scrivener?

Tue May 21, 2013, 09:03 PM

May 2013

Scrivener's sort of a mutation on word-processing, designed for serious writing.

It has several different ways of organizing your draft and your notes - you've got a binder, you can display things in outline format, and it gives you a corkboard so you can do the corkboard and index-cards style writeups like many writers do. It's designed to help you through the writing process all the way to finishing your first draft, at which point you can convert it into a .doc or .docx suitable for editing with MS Word, or .odt for LibreOffice, or ebook formats like .epub so you can put the book on your Kindle or Nook.

It's available for Mac OS, Windows or Linux.

Check it out here: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php

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Computer program for writers [View all] oneshooter Mar 2013 OP

Celtx is free. Bolo Boffin Mar 2013 #1

Microsoft Word or Open Office DavidDvorkin Mar 2013 #2

Just finished a novel... CherokeeDem Mar 2013 #3

Hey, great links. Thanks! nt valerief Mar 2013 #11

You're Welcome... CherokeeDem Mar 2013 #12

I think a lot will depend on how much formating, insertion of photos, etc., you need to do. Hoyt Mar 2013 #4

Fiction or non? eom littlemissmartypants Mar 2013 #5

Fiction/science fiction oneshooter Mar 2013 #8

Microsoft Word. Publishers are used to working with it. mainer Mar 2013 #6

Liquid Story binder... Agnosticsherbet Mar 2013 #7

I use Notepad. I'm wary of people who recommend more. Chan790 Mar 2013 #9

I wouldn't even have a clue how to access SheilaT Mar 2013 #14

I put my writing on notepad, and now can not find it! oneshooter Mar 2013 #16

Bingo. SheilaT Mar 2013 #17

That reduces the nightmare of formatting PATRICK Jun 2013 #21

yWriter is free. Scrivener is $40. Both are similar. valerief Mar 2013 #10

Check out tvtropes.org. It's a wealth of ideas. valerief Mar 2013 #13

I will try out all of the posters ideas. oneshooter Mar 2013 #15

Poor you! SheilaT Mar 2013 #18

Have you checked out Scrivener? backscatter712 May 2013 #19

+1 on the Scrivener recommendation Old Crow Sep 2014 #23

Welcome to DU cyberswede Sep 2014 #24

Why, thank you! Old Crow Sep 2014 #25

Sounds like the kind if books I like. cyberswede Sep 2014 #26

Open Office is as good as any...and it is free... Lefty Nast Jun 2013 #20

Yarny - it's free, web-based, super easy to use and saves everything to the cloud automatically eShirl Jul 2013 #22

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