Although I am mostly a lurker around here, I felt compelled to share with you an image of a Proust's manuscript I got from Facebook. Maybe he would have appreciated to use Scrivener.
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As a side remark, ForeverSave will get an update to make it fully compatible with Lion, as its developer has announced. The software's future is still uncertain but until there I believe several programs will not provide the new features for some coding difficulties that Apple ends up omitting.
Retaking the thread subject seriously, I quote from a review I've recently read, because I think this excerpt stands by itself for its insight on the writer's psychology: (...) as an ‘auto-exorcism’ of her own inner amateur, who must occasionally have wondered what she was going to write about. The ...
(...) but have you ever read Latin American short stories? If Brazilian ones are comparable in style, then it sounds like it might be more of an expansion and slight adjustment of those styles. The Spanish short story is already more of a vignette than what we'd traditionally consider a story . I d...
I am aware my suggestion will be useless to most people around here, but I've read this page recently about the idea of a "scripted novel" or, translated more accurately, "novelized script", presented both as a new literary genre (something I can't agree with) and a method of out...