[stylist] Writing Software

[Sarah Clark]

Bridgit,

You might want to take a look at the numerous Youtube videos on Scrivener 
and I think that it will quickly become clear why a program like Scrivener 
is vastly superior to Word when writing books. Most of the videos begin by 
pointing out why the individual offering the video stopped using Word and 
switched to Scrivener. Among other things, all of your research documents, 
notes, outlines, etc, are bundled with the writing project, yet kept 
separate from the manuscript itself. Saving of the work is done 
automatically every few seconds and can be saved on your local machine and 
also on Dropbox, etc, so that your work is safely saved off site. If you 
make changes to the manuscript and you decide "oops, I shouldn't have done 
that" you can easily roll your work back to the way it was before the 
change. Creation of paper and electronic books can be done automatically, 
and those books can be put into different fonts and have other properties, 
none of which effect your master manuscript. Chapters or even smaller 
sections can be moved around easily, and all research and so on that is 
linked to those book sections also move automatically. Even items you delete 
go into a trash container that remain bundled with the book project, but the 
items are not really deleted and can be retrieved from the trash. For 
professional writers, Scrivener also allows its documents to be saved in 
Final Draft format, which is the only electronic format that can be used for 
submitting television and movie scripts to agents and studios. In short, 
Scrivener is an entire system for writing and producing books as opposed to 
simply being a word processor.

It's really quite impressive, and you might want to take a look at it just 
to see what is possible for writers.

Sarah

Sarah

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via stylist" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
To: "'Writers' Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter" <bkpollpeter at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Writing Software


> Sarah,
>
> What do you mean by complicated? I'm getting my MFA in writing and work 
> only
> with Word. I do all my writing and editing in Word, and I do not find it
> difficult or tedious. So can you clarify your specific issues, please? 
> That
> may help us better understand your concerns.
>
> Bridgit
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Clark
> via stylist
> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 1:33 PM
> To: stylist at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Sarah Clark <sarah at sarahaclark.com>
> Subject: [stylist] Writing Software
>
> Hi all,
>
> Up to this point I have been writing in Word, but it can be complicated 
> with
> an extremely long document, so I am looking for a better option. From what 
> I
> have read, Scrivener seems to be the most popular writing software. Is it
> accessible with any screenreader? (Jaws, NVDA or VoiceOver for the mac) If
> not, is there an alternative program that is accessible? (I'm most
> interested in Windows based programs since I'm not very good with a mac 
> yet.
> But if that's the only option I'd work on becoming more proficient with 
> VO.)
>
> Thanks,
> Sarah
>
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