Fiction vs. Nonfiction writing/software

Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Sep 3, 2008 at 12:20 AM

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>There are far more nonfiction books published each year (at least in the
>U.S., but I assume it is the same elsewhere) than books of fiction. Additionally,
>journalists and scholars are all writing nonfiction. So it would seem that software
>for nonfiction would have a broader market potential.
> I wonder about the distribution, if you limit it to Mac users. Screenwriters, for example, have standardized, I think, on a Mac program.

Also, fiction writing has particular demands, to which ordinary tools are poorly adapted. MindManager, for example, has a special pricey module for screenwriting. Freemind, on the other hand, advertises its suitability for writing a philosophical treatise, using only Freemind’s native capacity.