There's programs for writing scripts, what about novels?

[Nonnie]

So yeah, screenwriters have Final Draft but what about novelists? Is there any kind of program to help formatting novels and novellas?

[JamesV]

I know of New Novelist and WriteIt Now!. I know nothing of their quality or any other information.

[RickLM]

They advertise software for this in Writers Digest magazine.

[Nonnie]

They advertise software for this in Writers Digest magazine.

Can you save me a buck or four and tell me a few?

[MrClown]

Uh, every novelist I know uses a good old-fashioned word processor like Word. If you use anything else, you're getting fleeced.

[Icaruss]

Microsoft Word? Duh.

[RickLM]

Can you save me a buck or four and tell me a few?

Maybe go to their website. I quit reading WD about 5 years ago.

[LordKinbote]

So yeah, screenwriters have Final Draft but what about novelists? Is there any kind of program to help formatting novels and novellas?

You worry about writing the novel. Your publisher is just going to change the format anyway.

[Nonnie]

You worry about writing the novel. Your publisher is just going to change the format anyway.

I'm one of those types of people who has to have things just so before they can go on.

There is a "manuscript format" that agents and publishers are fond of and it's sort of a pain in the ass to set up on Word. Having a program like Final Draft would save me some time and frustration, is all.

[LordKinbote]

I'm one of those types of people who has to have things just so before they can go on.

You mean you're one of those people who uses the preparation of the format of their novel as procrastination preventing them from actually writing their novel?

Gotcha.