![]() ![]() ![]() I have hand-tremors whenever I see anything that looks like it was designed by or for programmers - because I’ve been there. It looks like a light-table for text, or a code editor, or a… you get the idea. It looks like an email client, circa 2014, once Apple had released iOS 7 and the software killing-fields were strewn with discarded bevels and gloss and fricking mahogany (to which: jesus henry christ, what were we thinking?). I really didn’t think I’d be able to get used to Ulysses. We are not necessarily on different sides of this issue. You probably don’t disagree with the should part. It’s probably the second point that best reflects your position. Search your feelings, and tell me you really believe that (1) fiction should not be written in rich text, rather than that (2) Markdown has so many advantages for focusing on words rather than formatting, and for portability, and blah blah blah, that its benefits outweigh the natural and pleasing symbiosis of fiction and rich text - which is nevertheless still totally a thing. I draw your attention to the word should. Many people - including most of Ulysses’ user base, presumably - would utterly disagree with me on this, since Ulysses uses Markdown by default, and plain text at all times. Markdown is great for articles and blog posts and technical, factual, and/or journalistic material, but for me, it just doesn’t sit well with stories. I really, really like that Scrivener uses rich text. It’s more page-like, and it’s how we’re used to reading the stuff. I’ll start by saying that I believe fiction should be written in rich text, with native italics, curly quotes, em-dashes, and whatever else you need (which shouldn’t be much at all). I’m not going to edit this much before publishing it, because once you’ve spent enough time as a professional writer, you develop an instinctive feel for the rhythm and tone of I really can’t be arsed. This article pertains almost solely to the iPad versions of each app.īefore we go any further, I want to mention that I’ve more or less been awake since 04:30 today, and it’s now after 18:00. I’ve been giving Ulysses a bit more of my time lately, and I wanted to jot down some of my thoughts about it, and how it compares to Scrivener, for posterity. I wrote about the new-this-year iPad version of Scrivener a month ago, and in that piece I also touched on Ulysses, which takes a different approach to writing and assembling long (or short) written works. ![]() I wrote CHANGER in Scrivener on the Mac, and I edited and assembled Raw Materials with it too. I’ve been a Scrivener user for a long time. Thoughts on Ulysses and Scrivener - Matt Gemmell Matt Gemmell Books KESTREL Once Upon A Time Stories About Blog Contact ≡ □ MIDDLESHADE ROAD is out now! Thoughts on Ulysses and Scrivener Dec 8th, 2016 ![]()
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