This time in Tools for Writing, I’ll be looking at another Mac product, Scrivener from Literature and Latte. This is not freeware and costs USD $39.95 at the time of writing, but it’s still within the budget of most writers and it has advantages over the products we have been reviewing like RoughDraft 3 and…
I Should Be Writing…
Tools for Writing 3 – Jer’s Novel Writer
For this post in my series of posts on writing tools, I’m going to have a look at a free tool for the Mac OS-X platform called Jer’s Novel Writer. The application presents itself with a simple, rich text edit window without formatting menus or clutter. It is focused very much on writing and the…
Alt.Fiction and After
Given that Alt.Fiction is a one day convention, it is amazing just how much can be packed in. Obviously the team from Writing East Midlands had worked really hard to put together an interesting and exciting programme, complemented by the staff at QUAD, who managed that difficult line between friendly and organised. It’s a really…
Alt.Fiction 2010
For those of you in the Midlands, I will be at Alt.Fiction this Saturday 12th June, which is being held at QUAD in Derby. This is an excellent opportunity to meet writers, fans, editors and publishers from the genres of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. There is a full programme planned covering everything from sci-fi…
Before You Hit Save
If you’re a writer, does the format of the document you save your work into matter? What you’re reading now is HTML, but do you care? Before you see the HTML tags, the browser has stripped them out and replaced them with document formatting, so what difference does it make? Well, it matters as soon…
Tools for Writing 2 – RoughDraft 3.0
In my last post I went into some detail as to why Microsoft Word was not the best tool for creating long works of fiction, not because it was bad software, but because it wasn’t designed for that purpose. In this post I am going to offer you an alternative piece of software which is…
Tools for Writing 1
Recently I have been trying out a new piece of writing software and, in due course, I’m going to write a review of it, but first the obvious question. Why not use Microsoft Word? The answer to that question is not simply answered by saying that MS Office is expensive compared to alternatives (unless it’s…