Best Mac App For Story Writing

The Best Book Writing Apps Every Writer Needs on iPhone, iPad & Mac By Conner Carey on Mon, These are the best apps for writers who want to finally complete that novel they’ve been letting collect dust.

In this screencast tutorial I cover one of my favorite writing apps not only for the Mac but across platforms and that’s Ulysses. Ulysses is a markdown text editor that is a one stop shop for all of your writing needs. It includes simple to use writing tools that include clickable mark down prompts, an organizational library to keep all of your writing in one place, live preview of your markdown, various writing styles and an export feature making it easy to get your text into whatever format you need from plain text to html to epub. Check out this screencast and you will see why it is one of my favorite writing tools! As always thanks for watching. If you find this video helpful please like, favorite, share and subscribe to help get the word out to others who may benefit from this walkthrough.

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By • 7:45 am, November 1, 2012 • • It’s November, and you all know what that means: No, not the. November is, or NaNoWriMo for (almost) short. NaNoWriMo is the annual attempt by many tens of thousands of people to finally get that novel out of their head and into the cloud storage option of their choice. The goal is to write a 50,000-word novel by midnight on the 30th November, and you can get there by fair means or foul.

It has to be a novel, it has to be 50,000 words (or more) long, and it has to be written in November. The tools you will need most to write your NaNoWriMo novel are inspiration and a lot of perseverance. Luckily, apps can help you with both. Here’s the definitive guide to NaNoWriMo apps on the Mac and iOS.

If you can’t drag that novel kicking and screaming into the world with the help of these apps, you can’t do it at all. Planning and Inspiration For some people, planning is most of the fun of writing a story, whether it’s a novel or a movie screenplay.

You get to create and hang out with your characters, to decide who does what, and what horrible fates will befall them as they do it. Other writers — like amateur decorators — want to jump straight in without taping off the door-frames or applying an undercoat.

And that’s cool too. But the apps in this section will make the process of gathering reference material and collecting your ideas a fun process, not a chore. And more importantly, if you do it right now, you’ll save frustration down the line when you can’t find that damn note that you know has to be round here somewhere you just saw it dammit! – (iPad) Stuck for inspiration?

List For Writers is just that – a bunch of lists, for writers. Only it’s better than that.

The lists are broken down into categories – personality types, plots, settings (locations and places) and also sections of word types (need an action verb? There’s a list for that). And while Lists doesn’t offer the whimsical juxtapositions of ideas you’ll find in an app like (), it is perfect to browse for inspiration, or to turn to when you need a quick bit of narrative help.

But the best part is that you can save anything you find in the lists to your own notepad to keep for later, and this list can be emailed out – perfect for sending to Evernote, for example. – $50 (Mac) Persona is an app for keeping track of your characters. Yes, you could do this in Scrivener, but Persona is built for the task – it’s like a Dungeons & Dragons character sheet, only for made up characters. Free app for mac.

Wait a second With persona you can keep track of every aspect of your characters. You might not refer to it all the time, but when you need to remember whether your hero killed his first wife or his second wife (or was it his long-term mistress?), or when you’re looking for a place to store all the notes you jotted into your notebook on those long lonely nights spent alone in a bar with a half-bottle of whisky. Need a new victim for your serial killer? Then make a smart collection of blonde women under 25 and take your pick. Actually, this is starting to look pretty useful – (iPad) (iPhone) Drafts is also by Agile Tortoise, the developer of Phraseology, and is less of a full-on writing tool and more of a way to jot down and then disseminate ideas. Drafts launches to a blank note.