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Primary amongst these appears to be Not Being Able to Start Writing or Procrastination. Then there are the various blocks or problems that many, but not all, writers face. And then, those who write anywhere and everywhere and those only write in one place (and some writers work on one project at a time while others work on many). The major difference is between planners and pantsers (who split into those who set off running until they reach an end, and those who set off running and then rest and look around before they continue), but there is also a difference between those who really prefer physical pen and paper and those who prefer digital, and the technologically adept versus those who like it kept simple. To the details of their practice and the tools they use they will have found that this helps then to 'get in the zone'. Many successful are strongly attached both Similar for business people, lawyers, doctors etc.ĭifferent writers also have different styles and work practices.

#Writeitnow linux professional#

A professional who writes reports/business cases for use within and without their organisation with frequent presentations.Also does pieces for media whenever asked. A writer of literary fiction - books, plays and screenplays.

A writer of large scale, multi volume, huge world fantasy fiction.A journalist with weekly columns and a blog.Their needs are very different to those of a student because most papers are written in collaboraton with others and they may be working in a number of different fields and over a very long time. A senior professor with an active research programme.I hope that this will cover the needs of students at all levels.

#Writeitnow linux software#

So, in an effort to make the review fit for all needs, I will look at the software from the perspective of a reasonably comprehensive cross-section of the writing community (but not including mathematicians, programmers etc who use specialised editors). In fact, many people have to write as part of their work - students and academics, technical writers, bloggers, journalists and columnists, copywriters, novelists, playwrights, poets, lawyers, doctors, business people, politicians and speechwriters.

#Writeitnow linux pdf#

Most likely a docx for a traditional publisher, a pdf for an academic work or a whole succession of different format for the independent.įor maximum use a review also needs to address the needs of all types of writers, not just Authors who might appear on a Literature syllabus (or the more modest writers resident in Grub Street). Publication - formatting into a final stage.Revising and Editing - an iterative process that is likely to involve other people at some stages.Organisation - a detailed working up of the plan.Brainstorming and development of ideas - mostly a process of possibilities that firm up into a plan different to own material because it is focussed on the project.Own material - Potentially a range of things including ideas, observations, conversations overheard, nice phrases or wordings, incomplete compositions.Research and Collection - A collection of external references, files, documents to be used when writing.There are a number of stages shared by most types of writer. And a review of writers' tools needs to cover the whole process of writing from the original idea in the writer's mind to the publication in the hands of the reader. But it covers no earlier stage of the writing process. It's not unreasonable for writing words down, functions well for editing, and can publish in a number of formats. The form of most programs for writing seems to be based on the same structure as Outliners & Notetakers many of which transmogrified into PIMs before their near extinction.ĭespite the existence of these programs, most, it seems, still use Word - maybe because using what you are used to avoids a learning curve.

I think that I will end up putting them all in their own 'mini-reviews' and just have a few overall conclusions & tables here, with links to those reviews. Having put in two tables, I think that just the tables overwhelm this post. I have designed a simple table which gives an overview of each piece of software my original intention of going into much greater depth would have overwhelmed this thread, so I will do a mini-review for each program that seems interesting enough in this context. So I regard this as an initial draft, which I will adapt and extend. Preferably a collaborative review incorporating suggestions, different perspectives and approaches. This is intended to be a comparative review for writers' software which looks at all the processes that may be involved in writing.