June 12, 2023

I’ve continued on with what I’m currently calling “The Confrontation,” which the story I wrote about yesterday.  

By the way, “The Confrontation” is being written in a program called Scrivener.  I’d like to write a few notes this morning about the programs I use to write.   I’ve found that this is the best available program for writing and organizing a project; you should check it out if you are not aware of it. I’ve tried several other programs: Plottr, Storyist, Prowriting Aid, Ulysses, and Microsoft Word.  I use Ulysses for my blog posts.  I use Prowriting Aid for proofreading style and spelling; it’s excellent for that.  Scrivener has really nice organization tools for everything from character sketches to setting sketches, research notes, web pages and others.  It take can take an investment of time to get used to Scrivener, but it is well worth it.  Storyist is a close second to Scrivener, and can easily be used instead.  Ulysses has a very clean interface, which is why I use it to write my blog posts.

There are other writing programs, 15-20 in total, but these are the ones that look best to me.  

I try to write 1000 words a day, just like Ray Bradbury and the “Zen of Writing,”  I started yesterday with 1027 words, I’ll try for another 1000 today and post the updated version.  Happy writing!