[stylist] Writing Software

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
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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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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
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 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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