What software is everyone using to craft their masterpieces? I'm just curious - are we a primarily Word-driven region, or are some of us still using NotePad or Works, or is there anyone else in the greater Macon/WR area with a Mac using one of their awesome word-processors?
I personally use Avenir, a mac only program that is designed for fiction writing - it acts as a database of chapters and characters and scenes and locations and research as well as a fully functional word processor and I lurve it more than almost anything ever.
How about y'all?
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I use RoughDraft, which you can get free online. :) It's geared towards writers and has a built in side panel that you can use as a virtual notepad to take notes about what you're working on (it saves it as a separate .txt file, which is handy). The best part about it, to me, is that it is a very small program and takes up virtually no room/memory on the computer.
----------Violet
2004 // The Gemini Effect won!
2005 // Lilim's Gate 17,144
2006 // Into the Fire won!
2007 // A Prince's Ransom & The Demon Catharsis
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Nov 21, 2007 - 13 45
Last year I used RoughDraft. I really like that program; you can't beat the size... it fits on a 3.5 floppy!
This year I'm using Open Office.org. Completely free, does pretty much everything else Word does, only without the price tag or vulnerabilities.
I managed to get a copy of Liquid Story binder for free, which looks really cool, but I didn't wnt to fool with learning a new program during NaNo. It looks really nice, with dossiers, files worldbuilding tools... I like it.
----------Heather
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Nov 21, 2007 - 16 41
I use whatever happens to be handy. Any hardcore door-closed writing sessions happen in MS Word, because that's what my room comp has; word wars tend to go down in WordPad, to be copied into OpenOffice for wordcounting purposes.
----------'05 - Morbid astronomy with a touch of pirates. Winner.
'06 - Snarky royalty and secret meetings. Winner.
'07 - Assassinations, ghosts, and family issues. Winner.
'08 - A strange and sinister retelling of a classic tale. We'll see.
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Nov 21, 2007 - 18 05
I use Word. It's what's on the computer and what most agents/publishers expect documents to be in.
But, some of yours sound really nice especially the Mac one.
Pam
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Nov 21, 2007 - 22 31
I'm using MS Word 2003. I've always used it and have been happy with it. Now if I could just find a way to plug it into my brain and have it write all the great phrases, chapters, characters, etc., down automatically!
Need caffiene!
----------meannah
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2005: Southern Storms~Won
2006: What's Done Is Done~ Won
2007: Good Little Girls Never Tell~32,053
2008: Tap On Me
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Nov 22, 2007 - 08 51
I use MS Word. Mostly because it's on every computer i touch. However, i am very interested in Vi's program, and after this novel - which barely resembles one by the way - is finished, or when i get my 50K word count, which ever comes first, I'll check into to it, since it's free and all.
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I use word perfect. Word is for work, word perfect is for play ... and has been for ... well, more years than I have on my fingers and toes ... okay, I can't count. My fingers and one foot. Well, maybe most of both feet. Anyway. I still use the keyboard commands to do most of what I want, if that says anything :p ...
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