Best of the Web: Updated Software for Writers, Blogging

Some more great information for writers…

Write your  blog with Microsoft Live Writer:  This detailed article at Computer Companion explains exactly how to use Live Writer to update your blog, right from your desktop rather than via an online entry form.   Being able to do it on your computer has real advantages.

StoryMill 3.2.2 Novel-Writing Software for Mac: This specialized word-processor for the Mac [named Avenir in an earlier incarnation] was upgraded on January 20.  MacWorld published an excellent review of an earlier version.  The comments under the MacWorld article are particularly interesting, indicating ways to harness this software for non-fiction use.  Price has been reduced to $33.71 from $44.95 — download and purchase via MacWorld.  MacWorld online offers some excellent user reviews.  I was particularly pleased to run across all of this information, as I recently received an inquiry about this very same software, which I previously did not know.

Major Update for Pages ‘09 for Mac:  While we’re talking MacIntosh, MacWorld has also done a thorough review of the major upgrade to the standard Mac word processor Pages.

Other Mac Writing Programs:  Poking around MacWorld uncovered several other programs of interest to writers on the Mac platform:  Storyist aims at helping with story development.  Jer’s Novel Writer [$30.00] has been around for quite a while, and was most recently updated last summer.  Users give it interesting reviews.  Scrivener [$39.99] is perhaps the best known of the alternative word processors for the Mac.  It apparently was updated this week.  Lots of user reviews.

MeshWrite — a tool for thinking, for Windows & Mac:  MeshWrite is a software in process, according to user reviews — it was updated just today to version 1.0.6.   But it may be worth exploring.  Right now it’s marked down to $38.00, reduced from its usual $62.00.  If anyone tries this out, please let us know.

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