[stylist] Writing Software
Amy McGarrah
amyemcgarrah at gmail.com
Thu Jun 23 01:44:11 UTC 2016
Hello Sarah,
I use both a Mac and a pc as well as paper to write when I have
any opportunity. I also use a BrailleNote where most of my
writing of late gets done.
Amy
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From: Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org
To: "'Writers' Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 16:32:23 -0500
Subject: Re: [stylist] Writing Software
Sarah,
Sounds interesting and may have to check out. I know lots of
writers though,
professional, students, professors, fiction, nonfiction, etc.,
and only a
handful use anything other than Word. Not saying it's not just a
matter of
people being aware and switching, but several writers work with
Word and
seem to find it adequate. But you bring up a great point, and
this is worth
looking into.
Bridgit
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Sarah Clark
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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
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From: "Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via stylist"
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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
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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
Sarah Clark
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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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