Serious Creative Writing with a Computer

Serious Creative Writing with a Computer: how to use the computer as a productive writing tool. This is an 11 minute presentation about how I use a Mac to get writing done...You can also view the presentation directly in Vimeo.[Sorry about the audio quality... It's not great in this presentation...]Here are the key applications focused on in this presentation:

• TextExpander

• Notational Velocity

• WriteRoom

• Scrivener

If this subject interests you, check out these blogs:

• practically efficient (technology, workflows, life)

• by John Chandler (creativity, design, and lifestyle)

• 43 folders (time, attention, creative work)

And this podcast hits on some valuable, creativity-friendly workflows:

• Mac Power Users (empowering mac users)

Links (and alternatives) to tools I claimed to use:

• Scrivener

• WriteRoom (Mac)

• Alternatives to WriteRoom: Ommwriter Dana (Mac), DarkRoom (Windows), JDarkRoom (Windows & Mac)

• Notational Velocity (Mac)

• Alternatives to Notational Velocity: alternativesTo

• Text Wrangler (Mac)

• SimpleNote (iPhone)

• Though instead of SimpleNote, I now use PlainText (iPhone)

• TextExpander (Mac)

• Alternative to TextExpander: Breevy (Windows)

• Dropbox (works on just about anything)

• LaunchBar (Mac)

• One list of Mac-based clipboard managers

• Another list of Windows-based clipboard managers

• Freedom (Mac, Windows)

• Default Folder X (Mac)

• Explanation of Markdown

• Explanation of MultiMarkdown

• Explanation of LaTeX

I know this only scrapes the surface, but it's a start...Click here to view all my videos.