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I like this! As a not-very-serious writer, I had previously been doing my writing with VSCode plus a couple of extensions and themes to make it look like Ulysses, but I think I will give this a look. I'd be happy to chip in some money if you put a donation link up.
How very nice of you to offer! In lieu of donations to Singular Writer, may I suggest a non-profit, perhaps No Kid Hungry (www.nokidhungry.org)?
I've been using emacs for about 27 years, and even wrote two novels ( e.g. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6 ) in it. Author friends tell me that I've really really REALLY got to try Scrivener, but I know from previous attempts at using other tools that nothing but emacs feels right to me. I should give it a try, I suppose...but it's going to be really weird.
As a data point, Donald Knuth uses a minimalistic Ubuntu setup with FVWM2 and Emacs (with a lot of custom keybindings), and that's enough for writing his big volumes.
Sorry folks, but Fade In Pro is the best: https://www.fadeinpro.com/ Rian Johnson wrote The Last Jedi using Fade In Pro. Gary Whitta wrote Rogue One using Fade In Pro. (drops the mic)
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It's an amazing tool. I've been using it for screenwriting and worldbuilding for years. It's just a really clever take on a writing tool. I'm sure your Emacs kit fits your needs, but I'd bet even trying Scrivener, you might get some ideas to enhance your Emacs flow.
I fear that trying Scrivener might launch me into a five year quest to duplicate some of its features in elisp! :)
Good work on the new release. As a long time Scrivener 2 user, I'm happy to see this. However, I wanted a simpler and subjectively nicer looking tool for distraction-free writing and thus made my own. It's free, has a few social features built-in, tracks writing progress/goals/distractions, and can make good looking books. Also, adding features to Singular Writer has been really easy, as evidenced by it being in exis…
Curious whether you have any plans for an iOS app accompanying this? My partner uses Scrivener for writing currently, but does a lot of it on their iPad, so Scrivener's app + Dropbox sync is a fairly important thing for them. (Scrivener's Dropbox sync being frequently buggy may help explain why I'm asking about this for them...)
Anyone used scrivener and found it a useful tool for general note taking, a personal wiki, or getting things done? From the website, it looks like many of their features would be useful as a general work support tool, despite the emphasis on writing.
Perhaps that was because of the separate code base for each platform which meant in the previous versions the UI and feature set varied. L & L claim the Windows and MacOS versions will have the same UI but the fact version 3.x wasn't released for both are once is enough to tell me the code bases have most likely not converged.
For screenwriting I highly recommend checking out emacs fountain mode [1] (plus imenu-list and Olivetti minor modes). In combination with org-mode it is the most powerful writing/outlining tool you can imagine. Also, if you haven't tried them, I highly recommend checking out WorkFlowy [2], Gingko [3], or Nulis [4] (disclaimer - nulis is my own project). Outlining and organizing projects as a tree structure is insanel…