Way back in May ‘07, I asked the folks over at DeepGenre about software for creative writing. They were most generous with their responses, eagerly pointing me in directions that proved helpful. I explored all the options presented, and the most attractive software for my needs, hands down, was Scrivener.

However [there's always a however, isn't there?], it’s for Mac OS X only, while I had only PC’s available to me. So I continued struggling [and spewing profanity in the process] with Word and Windows XP Professional on the Thinkpad T40.

My lovely S.O. ultimately wearied of my rantings and whinings about the perfidies of hardware and software that were proving counter-productive to my writerly efforts, and presented me with a new MacBook Leopard [thank you! thank you! thank you!]. Being the IT guru that he is, he then downloaded Scrivener onto my new toy tool for me.

* swoon *

Scrivener is, is, damn, it’s just WOW. Scrivener was created by writers for writers. I’ve had it only for a few days, now, so I’m still discovering all the cool stuff it can do. There’s also a very active forum for chatting, bug hunting and reporting, and tech support galore for Scrivener.

There is only one possible downside to all of this wonderfulness,…

… No More Excuses.

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p.s. anyone else notice that XP resembles a rather bad-tempered, contemptuous emoticon? maybe that should’ve been my first clue,….