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- bhuvanavignaesh
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Which tool you use it for writing your reviews
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I suspect LaTex is not what you would use for writting an online review...
It has been some time since I last wrote a review. If I were going to publish a review on my blog today, I would just write it straight in HTML using the Vim editor. The CMS I am using for my blog is very basic and requires some manual work.
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Years back I used WordPerfect because at the time it was a better product, but time has passed, WP is no longer, and MS-Word is the standard of the industry. Lots of folks don't care for that but it's a fact of life.
When I bought my new laptop last year, I also bought the Microsoft (Mickeysoft?) "Student and Home" edition of Microsoft Office, which came with Word, PowerPoint, and a couple of other MS packages, the very latest version, Word 2013, and it cost me $104. This is about as cheap as you'll find the software legally available.
This new version of Word is amazingly powerful, has a zillion features which I'll never use. First thing I did was to turn OFF all auto-correct features, such as spell or grammar or whatever. The best spellcheck system is between the writer's ears.
After about a week I was charging along just fine, have had zero bugs and no problems whatsoever.
Remember, if you send your writing out professionally, MS-Word will probably be required, something which should be recognized as you transition from hobbyist to semi-pro writer.
I know that Scott tends to champion open source software, which is fine. But if you do use something other than MS-Word, you better be certain that your publisher will accept documents in that particular format. Otherwise you're wasting time learning a piece of software which is little used in the professional world.
Another thing -- If you submit a longer work, such as a novel, to your publisher, it will undergo several professional reviews and edits, and usually these recommended changes will be returned to you via the MS-Word feature called "Track Changes". This is an option you can switch on, which keeps an accurate account of all edits, and saves the older text so it can be restored.
Anyone who's going to be submitting stories or whatever to a publisher probably needs to be reasonably up to snuff with MS-Word, and a novelist also should learn how to use the "Track Changes" feature.
Just sayin'
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As I'm working on a novel (now my 4th) I keep an "ideas" file and the the actual text file, both on the desktop and quickly accessible. I got totally away from handwritten notes or any sort of manuscript logs or journals years ago. Everything goes straight from brain to Word.
And yeah, I back up my files regularly, too.
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- moderntimes
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If all you want is to type things for fun and print them out, and maybe share with friends, there are quite a few free software packages which do basic word processing.
If on the other hand you intend to write something which you will submit for actual use via a publisher or other fairly professional use, then you might need to spend $100+ and buy MS-Word.
It's all based on your needs.
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- moderntimes
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What you recommend is the same as what I use when reading on my Kindle -- I'll bookmark the page -- to go back and re-read a fun passage or as a hint to later search for something if I'm reading a history or biography.