![]() I find it very effective for planning a new scene, especially when I am stuck. Scapple is a freeform text editor developed by Literature and Latte. Some of its advanced features can be tricky to master (I still struggle with file export settings at times), but Gwen Hernandez has written a great Scrivener for Dummies manual and David Hewson his informative and stimulating Writing a Novel with Scrivener. I am a software junkie and I have tried several writing apps, but none has been as powerful, reliable or satisfying as Scrivener. Ready to publish? Scrivener will export your text in a variety of formats (including EPUB, Mobi and PDF). Using Windows? There’s a Scrivener version for you. Going on the road? Scrivener syncs fast and reliably with the iOS versions for your mobile devices. ![]() Reluctant to tinker with your text, though you’re not quite happy with it? Take a snapshot to preserve your latest draft, then go to town on those paragraphs! Need to check your research notes? Easy, as Scrivener lets you save those within your project file. Want to restructure that pesky chapter? Switch to corkboard view and drag those index cards around until the sequence of the scenes makes perfect sense. Want to focus on your writing, without distraction? Turn on composition mode and all you’ll see is your text, full screen, against a spartan backdrop. It is cheap, reliable and, like a chameleon, supremely adaptable. Literature and Latte‘s Scrivener is the Swiss Army Knife of writing programs. So read on for a list of my digital accomplices: A bit like the Tooth Fairy, really, but with binary code and passwords. The apps we use are our toys, imaginary friends who help us get the job done. Writing can be a lonely job, sitting in front of that high resolution screen, trying to squeeze elegant sentences out of an unwilling cortex. ![]() Okay, smart alecs out there, I accept your point: making a list in the first place is a dead giveaway… Read this list, and you’ll probably have a good idea as to what type of writer I am. Popular wisdom has it that there are two types of writers: plotters, who write backstories for their characters and painstakingly plan every turn in the narrative and pantsers, who fly by the seats of their eponymous trousers.
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