Comments on: Software for Creative Writers

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:49:36 +0000

Hello
Chris.
Please don’t forget the free software “yWriter”. The software are very
good and practice. You can download the versions here: ywriter
and here ywriter
4. I am a yWriter user from past three years and just work
amazing. You can have all the data in chapters and that are great.
Others writers softwares some that are very expensive. YWriter look
simple but have a strong performance. Thanks for take a look on.

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:35:11 +0000

Hello Chris. Please don't forget the free software "yWriter". The software are very good and practice. You can download the versions here: ywriter and here ywriter 4 . I am a yWriter user from past three years and just work amazing. You can have all the data in chapters and that are great. Others writers softwares some that are very expensive. YWriter look simple but have a strong performance. Thanks for take a look on.

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By: Matt Wilcox

Matt Wilcox — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:04:33 +0000

Thanks Chris I never did finish the design properly, but I’m glad you like it (whatever you do, don’t look at it in IE!).

I do take a look at WordPress every now and then, and in fact use it on a few client sites. It has come a long way, and if I were to start again I’d definitely use it.

Anyway, getting back on track - I drafted my latest blog entry in DarkRoom, and really liked the experience. So thanks for the heads up

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:50:55 +0000

I really liked your blog design — there were so many little design details such as the category headings, which really brought it together for me.

WordPress has come a long way, and while it might be quite a task to port between systems, I believe WordPress makes it fairly easy for you to do so, using it’s import functionality. Plus the admin section isn’t too shabby either. Take a look when you get a chance!

By: Matt Wilcox

Matt Wilcox — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:48:39 +0000

Hehe, thanks, I think!

My blog grew out of a few previous websites I built. One day I decided to look at PHP, and my learning route took me into building a forum. After that I built my blog (well, an early version anyway). And believe me, I now wish Wordpress had been around at the time I first started my blog (over 5yrs ago). I’ve re-written it once (3 yrs ago), and am about to do so again. Only the first version had a proper admin section - this second one has relied on phpMyAdmin and manually altering all the tables.

I have 945 blog entries, and over 1,100 media entries associated with the blogs, the earliest date from January 2002. At the time there wasn’t a blogging system I was aware of, hence rolling my own. Porting them to a WordPress set-up always seems like being harder than re-building my own (I know my system, I don’t know WordPress).

If only Wordpress had been around back when I started, my life would be much easier!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:37:24 +0000

Before WordPress, I was adamant about creating my own blog system — this was when I was first starting to blog and was being quite picky about the systems I was using. I think I lasted about 3 days with my home grown system before I gave up — probably a very good indidcator of how poorly I had developed the user experience for the admin. I have to say though, I would never have pegged your blog to be a home grown system.

By: Matt Wilcox

Matt Wilcox — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:33:47 +0000

I read your Writer review, and it does seem like a nice bit of software - however my blog runs a custom PHP/MySQL application I coded about three years ago - so non of these fancy applications for blogging tie-in with my system, which makes them seem pretty redundant for me.

Of course, one day I’ll code an administration section for my blog and then I might be able to tie-in some how (perhaps by emulating the Wordpress API or something) - but for now I do everything by diving into PHP myAdmin
(ugly, and slow, but it works).

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:33:36 +0000

Hey guys, thanks for your comments — I’m quite particular about the quality of the software that I use, and hopefully this short list will have been beneficial to you in some way.

On a blogging note: I’ve been using Windows Live Writer for the past couple of days and I’m very happy with it — you can read about it here. — and I’ve found that the WLW environment is actually quite productive to work in. My last few posts were composed entirely within the application.

In any case, if it fits into your writing process, use it right?

By: Ranjani

Ranjani — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:23:56 +0000

I’ve been using DarkRoom, but I get distracted even then. I’m best off with Microsoft Word, but I’d love something tabbed that’d keep track of all the different files I want to have open at once.

Ah, the creative process. Got to love it, right?

Thanks for all the links!

By: Matt Wilcox

Matt Wilcox — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:04:04 +0000

Thanks for this list of programs. I’ve just downloaded DarkRoom and Page Four.

I reckon Darkroom will help a lot with my blog posts (which I almost always re-write and tweak dozens of times, during which I sometimes end up distracted by the interwebs). And Page Four looks really good for getting that story I’ve never written, er, written. Currently I just have a directory full of files for that story, and it’s not a good way for me to work.