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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp last week

#WritersCoffeeClub 1/4: Share a tool of your trade.

For writing books, it's @scrivenerapp —been using it since 2008 (it was still in beta at the time!) and have written about 25 books using it in that time. Many of which would have been impossible to produce without it. It's not a word processor (although it subsumes one), it's a tool for managing the deep structure of book-length compound text documents. Makes complexity transparent.

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salguod, man  🍂🍁 lazysupper
salguod, man 🍂🍁 lazysupper
@lazysupper@famichiki.jp replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@cstross
I used it for years and it was one of the only reasons I was still dual booting Windows last year. Would love it if they made a linux version, but I doubt they will.

I've been using Obsidian with the Longform plugin since then, but it's no Scrivener.

@scrivenerapp

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Federation Bot
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@Federation_Bot replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@scrivenerapp
I wish it was available for Linux.

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davecb
davecb
@davecb@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@cstross @scrivenerapp Does it ever say "I would prefer not to"?

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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@davecb I didn't understand your question. Please expand it?

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davecb
davecb
@davecb@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@cstross I was quoting Bartleby the Scrivener, so it wasn't a serious question.

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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@davecb Never heard of him.

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