Creative Writing with Fullscreen on a Mac
Posted by Ben Jackson Thu, 17 Nov 2005 04:08:00 GMT
As I write this, I'm staring at a (now almost) blank screen. This rules. No icons blinking in my dock, no open web browser windows tempting me to check my stats for the 15th time today, nothing but me and my massive writer's block. There's something about a blank sheet of paper that gets my creative juices flowing, and I get the same feeling looking at a blank screen.
Up until today I had only found two apps for Mac OS X that let you edit text in fullscreen: Ulysses and MacJournal. Both are shareware and cost more than I'm willing to pay for a single (and pretty trivial) feature. Then I discovered the unfortunately named but decently functional Jer's Novel Writer, a FREE editor that does this one thing very well. It also has a lot of other stuff that I'll probably not use, but at least for now my itch has been scratched.
