As a professional writer, my software needs are simple. Give me a text editor — preferrably Bluefish, but vim or OpenOffice.org Writer will do — and I have all I need.
However, judging by the number of aids available for writers, I am obviously in the minority. Novel-plotting databases, daily word counters, character generators — if you can imagine the software, you can probably find at least one example. I am fascinated by all the ingenuity, but most of the time I conclude that, if you know enough to use any of these tools without them leading you into greater difficulties, you can do without them. The OpenOffice.org extensions Readability Report and Language Tool are two applications that illustrate my point perfectly.
Article Source Linux Journal
September 8, 2009, 8:33 am
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