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

Posted by Thomas
Mar 19, 2007 at 01:07 PM

Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>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.

I can agree with that as everybody has different style. I can’t imagine using Word for anything besides finishing touches (though I haven’t seen the latest version), as my style is to write lots of short unconnected text and only glue it all together in the final stage - for that style IdeaMason seems best fit so far.

And yes, IdeaMason feels a bit bulky running on older machines, I got similar suggestions from Victoria as well. It will be probably the only .NET based software that I will voluntarily run on my PC.