This story right now
Writing a novel is not only multifaceted, complicated endeavor, it’s also a lot of fun! But one of the lessons I have come away with in my twenty year career is that no two books are the same. You don’t write them the same way, you don’t plot them the same way, hell, I don’t even use the same writing software for every book.
I know there are some people who are absolutely wedded to Scrivener, and I agree it’s a great tool. But it’s also complicated and overwhelming. Some people simply don’t want to have to take a whole course to learn how to use their writing software.
Because I love to play with new-to-me apps, I have tried more different types of writing software than is probably normal (and I’ve written reviews for a lot of them).
But which one is the right one for you?
Actually, that’s not the right question. The question you need to ask yourself every time you sit down to write a book is which app is right for this book. Every book is different. They need to be written differently. You will need different tools to write each book. Happily, there are a number of tools that are easily adaptable to the different needs of different books. I’m going to go over them below.
But before I do that, just as each book needs a particular app to write it in, each story needs a different type of structure. And just…
