Interesting update to Papyrus Author (2022)

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Posted by MadaboutDana
Apr 22, 2022 at 08:37 AM

Papyrus Author is trying to make itself more competitive by allowing users of the “free” version full access to all the program’s many features. The difference between the free and the “plus” versions is primarily quantity: there are, in short, limits on what you can do with the free version.

But the program is well worth a look. There’s a general update here: https://www.papyrusauthor.com/author-2022/ (English – Papyrus is developed by a German team, so the German website is generally more informative)

Cheers!
Bill

Posted by Franz Grieser
Apr 22, 2022 at 12:57 PM

Interesting. The German version is only available as a payed option, no subscription. But it seems to have a lot of features you do not get in the English version: Duden spellcheck and grammar check and an incredible array of readability option I haven’t seen in any English grammar checking tool.

Posted by Amontillado
Apr 22, 2022 at 02:39 PM

The thinkboards and pinboards look very innovative. In fact, it’s a shame they aren’t more common in word processors.

Edwin Yip has been promoting similar ideas for a long time in DocxManager. If I were a Word user, it would be because of DocxManager.

Posted by 22111
Jun 9, 2022 at 06:39 PM

see https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/9786/0/maps-eg-etc

Yes, “plans”: $14,95 (plus VAT probably, so it may be 20$ instead; in order to find out, I would have to create an “account” with them…) every month, for something which jumped on the “creative” bandwagon, with concepts of the Nineties, and when most of those “creative writing” help tools are either defunct or have ceased any development 15 years ago probably at the latest.

Citations (screenshots, etc. in the link above): “”: Character Sheets–give your characters true purpose. - Capture your character’s identity. - Avatars represent your cast. - Collect inspiration. - Create the right setting.

And with the screen forms exactly the way you’ll expect them, from those defunct or venerable, Win3-looking “inspiration helpers” (e.g. “Plots Unlimited”, “WritePro”, see “The New WritePro” on their old site, or “PowerWriter”, “PowerStructure”, e.g. see https://www.powerstructure.com/power-structure-status-update.html , and more than 20 others, just to mention some of the defunct ones) - that creation is plastic, not “top-down” (or whatever you might call such “boxed” concepts), how would the developers know, being coders, right?

And then, this “Papyrusauthor.com” takes it all in: “”: Notes–collect ideas on idyllic Pinboards. - Thinkboards–plotting with story templates. (“Choose your template and get inspired ...”: oh, yeah!), and then, the climax if I might say so, “Writing goals–success in mind.” (“Project Goal i words, Set Overrun Limit j Percent, “Calculate my session goal” (wellwellwell, hahaha!), “My Sessions” - NOT in your S/M studio in your neighborhood, mind you!)

Now let’s become serious again, even Ulysses helps with word count (i.e. the quantity over quality fallacy), and that for only 40 bucks plus VAT a year, not a whoppin’ 180!

An’then, there’s of course “Save the Cat” as software; you would need their 129-plus-VAT-p.a. subscription for real work, or then I think it’s 189 (per person, of course), including collaboration - the “Stop of my mum will shoot!” screenwriter’s heirs do excellent marketing work, obviously, and by the way, that movie isn’t as bad as “Cat”-the-book critics ( https://www.amazon.com/Save-Last-Book-Screenwriting-Youll/product-reviews/1932907009/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_viewpnt_rgt?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews&filterByStar=critical&pageNumber=1 , and there are many pages indeed!) love to pretend;

this being said, the ultimate “written by 12-year-olds-on-speed” movie is “Cougar Club” though, starring Joe Mantegna, but especially Carrie Fisher and Faye Dunaway, and thus rightfully being the preferred / pet movie (I happen to suppose) of the current French president (there is a special French version on YT it seems, for the benefit of ALL French-speaking males) - not to be mixed up with the previous one though: that being the one with the regular Vespa scooter rides at night - the only time Parisian streets permit any ride worth of the name and on any number of wheels indeed, even for a President, oh yeah, and his new wife and ancient nightly love-affair, while being a sought-after “star” (117 imdb credits!), is not really that “bankable” though (see e.g. her “Paper Souls” (“Les Âmes de papier”) box-office results which prove that even notoriety can not salvage any stinker.

And the same goes for software, after all.

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