Comments on: 5 Great Productivity Tools for Online Writers

By: Eli James

Eli James — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:48:02 +0000

I’m sorry for the late reply, Andre. And thank you for pointing out Scrivener to me. If (okay, when) I get a Mac, you’ll be sure I’ll look into it. =)

By: André Fischer

André Fischer — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:33:43 +0000

Urgh – posting the comment ate all the bullets I’d so carefully put in. Sorry for the quasi-unreadable mess!

André

By: André Fischer

André Fischer — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:32:57 +0000

I’ve found Scrivener (for Mac only) to be an amazing writing tool. It’s only $10 more than WriteRoom, but has about a thousand times more features, including:

a “no frills, no distractions” full-screen editing mode (with a configurable, semi-transparent background, so you can still see important research notes etc while you write).
the possibility to split your manuscript into chapters, sub-chapters, sub-sub-chapters, etc
a “corkboard” mode where you can see the synopsis of each section of your manuscript
configurable tags for everything under the sun
a place to store research, notes, links and related materials you need to refer to for your manuscript
export in a large variety of formats, including “stripped-down” to Courier etc for submission printouts
and loads more.

You can get a copy over at Literature & Latte

(By the way, I’m not trying to push the product, it’s just a tool I use and find really, really good.)

By: rabbitchaser

rabbitchaser — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:05:30 +0000

Now these look so useful. I was just fiddling with my computer settings last night to figure out how to make my computer screen do white on black in the word processor. I ended up settling for white on blue. I love the Language is a Virus site too. I use the poetry generators.

By: Eli James

Eli James — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:17:22 +0000

There is another version of that software, but just for Mac. It was the original, I believe: Writeroom

By: Alexandra Erin

Alexandra Erin — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:12:04 +0000

Whoo… JDarkroom is exactly the sort of thing that I need. Distractibility I write in Notepad instead of typing directly into my blog (and thus having a browser open.) Give me an emulated Apple II monitor with nothin’ but a text input area any day!