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Posted by Hugh
Oct 26, 2010 at 09:32 AM
Hope you’ll still get your review of Curio out into the public domain, Steve. I for one will be interested to read it.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Oct 26, 2010 at 09:58 AM
Hugh wrote:
>Hope you’ll still get your review of Curio out into the public domain, Steve. I for one
>will be interested to read it.
Thanks, Hugh. It was scheduled to go up yesterday, but I had to add an addendum to briefly cover the new features. I expect it any day, and will let you know when it is up.
Steve
Posted by Franz Grieser
Oct 26, 2010 at 10:45 AM
Hi Steve.
I’ve also been checking daily for your review of Curio :-)
Franz
Posted by Gary Carson
Oct 27, 2010 at 04:08 PM
There’s nothing wrong with writing your first drafts longhand. Lots of successful professional writers work this way. Elmore Leonard, for instance, writes his first drafts on yellow legal pads and he’s one of the most prolific writers out there.
Don’t believe the hype about how you have to use a computer to be a productive writer. This is just nonsense. It’s not true. Period. You can be just as productive—maybe more so—writing longhand or on a manual typewriter or whatever. You should use whatever writing tool is most comfortable for you. If you’re more comfortable writing your first drafts in longhand, then that’s how you should work.
Most people say they can write faster with a word processor, but what they really mean is that they can TYPE faster on a computer keyboard. That’s great, but TYPING is not the same thing as WRITING. Typing speed has nothing to do with productivity.
Let’s say you can only write ten words per minute by hand. That’s 600 words per hour or 4800 words in an eight-hour day. That’s extremely prolific by anyone’s standards. So don’t buy into this myth that you have to use a computer to be a REAL writer. Personally, I think that the main reason guys like Elmore Leonard are so productive is because they DON’T use computers. Word processors are superior EDITING tools, but when it comes to COMPOSITION, they sometimes just get in the way. (I’m supposed to be writing right now for instance).
End rant.
Posted by Hugh
Nov 2, 2010 at 10:45 PM
Scrivener 2.0 for the Mac has now been out for 24 hours. It really is a very good writing tool. I thought it would be hard to improve on 1.x, but 2.0 achieves that in substantial ways: for example, free-form index cards, customised meta-data in the outliner view, quick reference panes, true comment and footnote marginalia, collections of non-sequential documents, revamped compiling, page views, document templates, improved text statistics and targets, better document concatenation, automatic back-ups, synching to iPad applications etc. etc. I have also found it very stable.