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Here’s a double recommendation for the New Year. First, the BBC’s writing site, and then an interview on the BBC’s writing site with Neil Cross, author of Mr. In-between. Cross turns out to be a fan of Scrivener, and discusses how the program was developed, why it works for him, and how he uses it. This recommendation will be a twofer, containing both the site and the interview together. Good reading. Love the Beeb!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/insight/neil_cross.shtml
Smokey Forester, a documentary TV producer in New York, wrote to me: “I agree with you that we are connected with the minds of the software writers as we do our work on our computers. I’m not a writer so my work is different and the minds I connect with are different, but the effect is the same. I definitely approach tasks and problems differently than I used to (before computers, if you can imagine such a world) because of the way the software is written.” A piece of software functions like an intellectual prosthetic.