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Originally Posted by BookCat
[...]I'm gearing up for this year's nano; I'll probably use a combination of Scrivener, FocusWriter and The Novel Factory to finish the first draft of a novel I began some time ago.
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This is what I don't get: How/why use a combination of tools like this?
For distraction free writing in LibreOffice I press the F11 key (full-screen mode). The background colours can all be changed, even the "white" of the paper (which I change to a pale grey as an addition to reducing screen brightness). For character profiles you have tools in Scrivener; I just use one or more documents in LibreOffice.
Of course we all work differently. I just don't get how you can use tools that are so similar to work on the same project - it seems like you'd constantly be copying stuff back and forth between them.
I can certainly understand Scapple as an addition, it's a different sort of tool to Scrivener, Focuswriter et al. And idea generators ... sure, if they work for you (my software development mind tends to get distracted by them, wondering how/why they make certain choices etc.). But how do you use multiple tools that all - to me - seem to be doing much the same job to work on the same project?