Any suggestions for writing environments for writing a non-fiction book?

Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Mar 19, 2007 at 10:09 AM

Cassius wrote:
>I’m about to start writing a book, if I can ever get the energy to be in a non-prone
>position. The book (I sure hope it’s longer than a pamphlet!) will have a very short
>bibliography (probably

< 10 items)), will have examples in the form of diagrams, but
>

probably will not include mathmatical expressions.
> >Some of “us folk” have
>suggested
> > Liquid Story Binder, Journal, NoteMap, and others that I don’t
>recall.
> >Any suggestions of other software and any comments on the pros & cons of the
>various programs would be useful.AND APPRECIATED.
> >Thanks,

An opinion no one will agree with - I think for a large scale non-fiction writing project, the best writing environment is MS Word, particularly its latest incarnation. Of course you would apply a lot of other tools, but Word wil have the best general connectivity and the greatest variety of options for general writing.