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Posted by jaslar
Nov 29, 2017 at 12:14 AM
My book is “The New Inquisition: Understanding and Managing Intellectual Freedom Challenges.” I was then the director of a county library in Colorado. In my time there I got around 250 formal attempts to remove various books, audiobooks, movies, magazines and displays from the library. One day I had a big realization about why, so wrote a book about it, mostly for librarians.
I wrote it on KnowIt, then maybe the second two pane outliner available for Linux (after Tuxcards). Notecase is its successor. For the final edit, I had to output to HTML, open in OpenOffice.org, save as Word. It was a roundabout way to write a book, but the outliner approach was vital in articulating, developing, and revising the argument.
Along the way, I needed some things, emailed the programmer, and he changed the tool. That’s what I love about open source. Nods to to tkoutline author, too.
These days, for my next book, really leaning toward org-mode.
Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Nov 29, 2017 at 01:30 AM
I’ve written a pretty lousy novella for a competition and did not win. That said, the experience did give me a good crash course in Scrivener.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 29, 2017 at 10:07 AM
Damn, I’m so impressed by all these unexpected authors. Bravo, everybody!
Posted by Amontillado
Nov 29, 2017 at 07:48 PM
I think I really love to write badly. I love to write. I write badly. Ergo, I must love to craft the unreadable. It’s a calling few answer. It sets me among rare company.
Getting out of debt is another thing I must love to do, because I have to do it so constantly. I have methods I’ve worked out for money management that gain maximum effect per penny of debt paid. I’m writing a self help book about that.
I used OmniOutliner for getting out of the gate (5,915 words in the outline’s current state). I want to write in Scrivener, but while waiting for Version 3 to come out I got started with Nisus Writer Pro. I’m not sure whether I’ll migrate to Scrivener or not, but it would be easy.
Assuming I don’t end my self-help writing career dangling from a ceiling fan by my necktie, I’d like to follow up with a handbook for managing charitable organization money. At that point, I’ll either be ready for more of my clumsy fiction, or for my necktie and a ceiling fan. I’m pretty sure I won’t have a third self-help book to write.
But, hey, worst case, I’ll at least have one fan.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 29, 2017 at 09:14 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
>Damn, I’m so impressed by all these unexpected authors. Bravo, everybody!
I concur; bravi, bravissimi—and thanks to Stephen Z. for starting the thread!