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Why I’m Publishing My First Novel in a Format You’ve Never Heard Of
- ggm 7y agoSkrivener is a great tool to organize your thinking. Its a really terrible tool at the point you engage with a professional editor or proofreader: its constructed text outputs are not easy to work with, and it tempts the author to make "just a few more changes" which ruin the proofing and review process. Think in skriviner, but move to something else when you engage with publishing as a fixed-text outcome. (based on what my S.O. said about working on a 600 page book)
- marvindanig 7y agovery cool. imo, git is the most ideal tool for any sort of collaborative engagement. though i think it would be an uphill task to push writers towards using it. if only there was a simple way to expose the merkle tree inside the .git/ folder through a word processor like GUI…