Posted on Monday 7 November 2005 - Popularity: 2%
There are more novel writing apps around for OS X than the Ulysses I’ve shown you earlier. Andrew Dean has written a nice round-up of them together with some useful writing aids. Descriptions of features, good points and bad points … very useful for anyone wanting to write stories on their Mac. Now which one was his favorite?
Favourite novel writing package: Scrivener Runner-up: Jer’s Novel Writer
Scrivener just beats JWN for me. The synopsis mode is really useful for me personally, while the database capabilities of Jer’s Novel Writer are excellent, but not really required by me. All the same, either are strong, capable programs that are more than suited for the task. When they are released commercially, I’d dare say that the cheaper will be the better of the two, solely because there’s so little between them.
Favourite writing aid: GraphViz Runner-up: Instiki
For note-taking, a wiki is the best. If your writing program is already well covered for that however, and you still need a helping hand, then the powerful visualising capabilities of GraphViz are your best bet. I’m finding more and more uses for it, in my novel writing and elsewhere. Get it, learn how to use it - which really, isn’t hard - and you too will find more and more ways to make it work for you.
February 16th, 2006 at 10:57 pm
One more nice novel-writing program for OSX from a one-man company:
Glass Writer, found at http://www.glasswriter.com
Download a free trial version, or buy the whole enchilada for a very reasonable price. Glass Writer has separate windows for writing and for notes, allows you do work with one chapter at a time, and exports both novel and notes to RTF when you are done for final spell checking and such. Not a word processor, but rather a thoughtfully-designed writing environment.