![]() ![]() Write at the library, on break at work, from a friend’s computer, from a school computer, from your desktop or laptop. Plug Neo into any computer, and start writing. This means Neo can live on a USB stick dangling from your keychain. Neo is going to be kept as small as possible, so that it’s fast and can run directly from a single executable. Once Neo has your name and writing style, it’s done with the questions. And also don’t worry about Neo being convoluted or confusing to the user. This just changes how Neo opens new documents for you. Don’t worry, you can change your preference at any time and for each WIP. Neo will next ask if you are a pantser or a plotter (and the program will give a brief description of the difference if you aren’t sure). Again, you can leave it all blank, but entering at least your name will ensure that it shows up in every document with you as the author. The pen name will appear on the title page if you enter one. You can leave all of this blank if you want, and your author name will appear as “Anonymous.” The address bit is in case you’re planning to query agents (it’ll appear on your formatted manuscript). The first question will be for your name, address, and pen names. When you first install Neo, it’s going to have two sets of questions for you. You aren’t writing a blog, or a school report, or for a newspaper. Neo is going to understand from the beginning that you are an author. Bloat has ruined some of my favorite writing applications. If it does get built, I hope to make it open source, so we can improve it over time and it can meet the needs of the most number of writers. I might have to brush up on my programming chops and spend decades doing it myself. I’m in the early stages of looking at consultancies and programming teams to ascertain what it would take to build this. I’m going to lay out the design and features of my perfect word processor program, which I’ve dubbed Neo. It’s even worse to write a blog post and think anyone will care. It takes hubris to want to write a book and think anyone will bother reading it. And maybe it’s hubris to think that my writing application would be better for most authors than what’s out there. I know very well that there’s no one way to write a novel or a work of non-fiction. The second thing I should get out of the way is that I don’t want to build a tool just for my own use. Because they haven’t found a writing program they love either. And when I talk to writers about what I want to build, I hear from the vast majority of them that they hope I succeed. I’m the guy in the middle of the Venn diagram of: “Early Adopters,” “Beta Testers,” “Professional Writers,” and “Software Hoarders.” I won’t get into why each of these applications suffers from a near-fatal flaw, and I don’t mean to upset those who find that one of these programs works for them. I’ve probably tried writing apps that you’ve never heard of. From yWriter and Scrivener, to Hank’s Writer and OpenOffice, to FocusWriter and. I should start by saying that yes, I’ve used the word processor you’re about to mention. ![]()
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