4 Easy Ways To Write A Novel On Your New Mac
I’m ready to be a novelist. I have a Mac, a bunch of writing tools, and a stack of 3x5 cards loaded with ideas. What’s next? Besides the nitty gritty of writing. For the moment, I’m on a detour looking for the insanely greatest writing tool for Mac users.
I could use Microsoft Word or Apple’s Pages. Or, I could use Scrivener, or Jer’s Novel Writer or Mellel or Final Draft. I’ve tried each but never got into my comfort zone. Word and Pages are general word processors. The other four seemed overly complex. I chose to.... (excerpted).
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Gobstopper said:
I use Word for lengthy writing, but my mind often wanders in its ideas, so sometimes I’ll take one or two pages of what I’m writing and import the text into Adobe Illustrator to come up with my own layout or whatever. Whenever I’m not satisfied with something in Word I use Illustrator, but I was trained in the program in high school and I know it pretty well, so sometimes it’s just easier for me, and more satisfying. I can do whatever I want because it’s totally freeform.
Stomper said:
I use StoryMill and after looking at Storyist I really don’t see where one is better than the other. I use Scrivner as well and I’ve found it can be as simple or as complex as a writer prefers. Storyist offers a cork board, same as Scriviner. In reality I think it comes down to composition preferences.
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Ron Seybold said:
I used Scrivener to great success to get a 51-chapter, 98,000-word novel out the door and into agents’ hands. It’s got a lot of headroom and I rarely looked at a manual to accomplish the heady task.
I hope that Storyist can rise to such heights. I’m just getting started with it, and found that formatting was non-intuitive for me. The developer sent me some instructions that were not in the User’s Guide. I’d advise including these in revised guide—which since it’s a PDF file, could be distributed immediately.