Ultimately we were just swapping Word files with ever-increasing layers of file name complexity: dates, initials, all sorts of indicators for this is new, this is old . . . I’ve been working on a big and complex project with a client and we’ve been struggling with different collaboration methods, including an ill-fated attempt to use Google Docs and Google Drive, which ended up just being a file transfer point for us, and not anything terribly collaborative. Then two things came together, as things tend to do, which made me start to change my mind. So this bias tended to creep in even with things like Scrivener, and though I was telling people to go ahead and use it, secretly I was thinking: Don’t!
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If you’re buying software that’s telling you how to structure a story. and other complaints.Īnd then there’s my bias against anything that smacks of a machine making creative decisions for you, or even creative suggestions. Google Docs is fine for just getting text down but lacks anything like the formatting power of Word. At least one author wanted me to share files via Google’s platform and I couldn’t figure it out. Writing is hard enough without having to force your way through some process that slows you down, confuses you, frustrates you, etc.Īnd that being said, I merrily went on my way as a 100% MS Word user because after all these years I’ve got it working the way I want-pretty heavily customized, as it turns out-and God is in his heaven and all is right with the world.īut then I started to work with a few people who-gasp!-didn’t have Word. I always shrugged and answered, “Use whatever tool you like,” and I still believe that, and will continue to offer that advice to anyone who asks. When I started teaching writing, first at conferences and conventions then at the local college, people started asking me about different software packages designed with the writer in mind. I wrote a couple screenplays using Final Draft, but since 1997 everything I’ve either written or edited has been done via Microsoft Word. Especially compared to that WordPerfect mess. Someone made the decision at Wizards of the Coast, like probably most companies in the world, that we would all be working with the Microsoft Office suite. With everything you would expect from a top-of-the-line machine circa 1997. It stayed that way for the relatively short time I worked for TSR, but then Peter Adkison and Wizards of the Coast swooped in, bought us up, moved us to the futuristic technological utopia of Seattle, and gave me a Mac. Internet access? Ha! That’s just going to distract you from your work of chiseling novels onto stone tablets. We were all working on some kind of Neolithic version of WordPerfect, which was far from perfect on a good day.
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They sat me down in front of a PC that was entirely obsolete even by 1995’s standards. So, I am hoping to help others put an end to their writing software blues by getting this info in their hands.When I started work at TSR in September of 1995 the most surprising thing about my new job was how ridiculously God awful my computer was. Unfortunately, I had already spent money on other options before I did. It took me forever to find this software. WaveMaker's got you covered.įor the record: NO, I'm not getting any kind of kickbacks or anything for promoting this software. I'm telling you, for anybody looking for a flexible writing app, LOOK. But, if you go to the website, they're all laid out there.
I won't get into them here because frankly, I haven't used them all. Works on ANY device with an internet browser.Īs if those things weren't enough, it has a METRIC CRAPTON of other features. Works in your browser or can be downloaded locally. Synch your work to any computer, anywhere, at any time. For writing anytime or anywhere, this software cannot be beat! Here's what it can do: I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to jump on and contribute this response for anyone else who may wander by in the future.
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