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July 3 question - What are your favourite writing processing (e.g. Word, Scrivener, yWriter, Dabble), writing apps, software, and tools? Why do you recommend them? And which one is your all time favourite that you cannot live without and use daily or at least whenever you write?
Before I get on with the optional July 3 question (directly above), I have to say that my hand is feeling better, I can actually type with it and not using a brace anymore is divine, though I might still need a cortisone shot as it can be still painful and I can't use my thumb very well. I never did find that diction software, and I still have to update posts, but I'm giving myself till next Monday to start again.
I've been struggling with the capitalisation of words lately, I don't do it as much as I used to, which is good, but now I find myself wondering if Vampire, Werewolf, Henchpires, Volfs, Sorceress, Empath and the likes should be capitalised when writing. Yes I know all about the person, place or thing and the beginning of sentences, but Doctor, Nurse, Ghoul? These all throw me. Some say nope, unless at the start of a sentence, don't put the capital in, but then I think, it doesn't look right, others say as long as you are consistent, put them in...I don't know anymore...*sigh*
I am also working on editing two novels, and expanding a third, so busy, busy, busy (doing most of the expanding by hand, pen in notebook (love doing that, only need to use the good hand for it, and the sore hand to hold the book still). It's been real nice to get back to the roots.
June has also seen my computer Big Mamma deciding that she doesn't like part of her motherboard anymore, and along with the wrong dates and time, the black or blue screens of death and taking a half an hour to start up, or having to restart her to get things to work, I'm fit to scream, I don't really want to replace the tower, I love my machine, she's stunning and works very hard for me...then last week as I needed to update my laptop, it told me that in 2025 windows 10 will stop being supported and my beautiful Edge can't be upgraded to 11...one blasted thing after another...*calming breaths*.
So, what was the question...oh yea, favourite writing processing app...
I love word, actually I loved the one that came with that other program eons ago, WordPerfect, oh how I loved that one, that's the one I actually learned to use in America when I lived in New York and took a class in La Guardia...(memories eh!).
Where was I...oh yes, I love word, I do own a copy of Scrivener that I got from winning NaNoWriMo at half off, and I have tried using it, but I keep going back to word. I can do whole novels in one fell swoop using the heading and subheadings to denote chapters. I love publisher as well only they are phasing that one out, used to come with the whole package, but now you have to look for it.
There was also a program I got on a disc (bought in computer shop) long, long, long time ago, new novel or something like that. I loved using that, you could lay out your characters, your world, scene by scene or chapter by chapter... but fell out of using it when I got more involved with Microsoft word.
Word is the one I adore, I guess it's because I'm used to it, people have said it's clunky, and not built to write novels in, well for them that maybe so, and more power to the programs they use, but for me, it's the one that I know inside out and upside down, I love it, it even reads to me when I need it to.
One day I might learn how to use Scrivener just as well cause it looks awesome, but for now I'll stick with my word.
Love and bubbles TWW Author Bridgina Molloy
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I'm happy to hear that your hand has improved! I can empathize with the frustration, and I hope it fully recovers soon. Best of luck with your three novels! I often struggle with the editing part, and slogging through it is probably one of the most challenging aspects of my writing and publishing process.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you on Word. Glad your hand is getting better.
ReplyDeleteI'm stuck on Word, too. I hated it when I was a Word Perfect person. Now, it's my tool. I hope your computer problems were fixed!
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