For this week’s post in Tools for Writing I have a guest contributor, Simon West. Simon is a new writer, dipping his toe in the waters of fiction and non-fiction and has a long-term goal of writing for a living. Simon has been using Writer’s Café and has volunteered to review it for us. Over to you,…
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Tools for Writing 6 – yWriter
We’ll be looking at a PC tool in this part of the series, and it’s one that is squarely aimed at the structured approach. yWriter is produced by Spacejock Software, and as you can probably tell from the developer’s moniker, is designed and built by an SF writer, Simon Haynes. Like some other tools that…
Tools for Writing 5 – FreeMind
As part of my series on tools for writing, I wanted to take a look at, not only tools for drafting and editing your work, but also tools to help you plan what you write and structure your thoughts. In this post we’ll be looking at FreeMind, a mind-mapping tool which allows you to organise…
Tools for Writing 4 – Scrivener
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…
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…
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…