Ulysses is called a semantic text editor by its developer. I must confess that I still don’t understand 100% what that means. I bought Ulysses and Scrivener at almost the same time. Since then, I am still using Scrivener everyday but don’t use Ulysses. I am not saying that Ulysses is worse than Scrivener. My…
Month: September 2013
Storymill
The distinctive features of Storymill are the ability to set daily writing goals and track them with progress meter, and a timeline view providing a better perspective of your story. Ian Beck wrote a great review comparing storymill and scrivener, a novel writing software with high acclaims. In the review, he recommends Storymill for writers looking for…
Storyist
Storyist is a novel and screen playing writing software for Mac OS. It can create Kindle ebooks and publish them on Amazon.com. It is also available as iPad version that supports Dropbox sync. Michael Niemann gave Storyist 4 points out of 5 in his review. The strength of Storyist, according to the review, is the ability to…
Plume Creator
Plume Creator is an interesting option for novelists who use Linux OS (or Windows). It is an open source novel writing software in its beta stage but some reviews are very positive about its quality. Needless to say, it is free. A single glance at the software shows that its developers must have had some inspiration…
Reviews of Scrivener
For a long time, Scrivener has been the most famous and the most acclaimed writing software for Mac users. The software also became available for Windows since November 2011. Scrivener takes the same approach toward writing as that of yWriter, which is working on small parts of a book, editing them and changing the order…
Storybook
Storybook is a free and open source book writing software. Its website gives the description of the software as follows. “Store all information about your characters and locations in one place. Then, use the included Storybook features for managing chapters, scenes, characters and locations. A simple interface is provided to enable you to assign your…
yWriter
To quote the developer of the software, yWriter is “a word processor which breaks your novel into chapters and scenes”. The program allows you to work on scenes as a unit of a whole book. You make a project, which would be your book like novel or non-fiction, and create chapters inside the project, and…