I dunno, either, when has that ever stopped someone on the internet? Thoughts:
The critical efficiency issue in writing a novel is writing a novel. Selecting novel writing software is not writing a novel any more than selecting novel writing shoes is and if you're like me shoe shopping might be more fun.
Yet it [software shopping | shoe shopping, take your pick] is distinctly not writing a novel. On the other hand, pen and paper in hand, you could have fifteen or twenty wads of paper in the trashcan in a couple of hours and maybe one or two in...what's the best file folder for writing a novel? I best find the right file folders to properly keep the pages I haven't written once I write them and this box of 100 folders shows that I am serious about my writing even though they are all empty].
War and Peace was written without computers or Google. I once had a boss who wrote his business letters in Lotus 123. It was better than DOS edlin. Tolstoy might have killed to get vim but only because Org-mode had not been invented.
The serious point is that software has a learning curve, and learning novel writing software is not writing a novel either. What's the best HN comment writing software? Certainly not the browser on my touch screen phone, but sometimes I use it anyway. But not for this comment.
The critical efficiency issue in writing a novel is writing a novel. Selecting novel writing software is not writing a novel any more than selecting novel writing shoes is and if you're like me shoe shopping might be more fun.
Yet it [software shopping | shoe shopping, take your pick] is distinctly not writing a novel. On the other hand, pen and paper in hand, you could have fifteen or twenty wads of paper in the trashcan in a couple of hours and maybe one or two in...what's the best file folder for writing a novel? I best find the right file folders to properly keep the pages I haven't written once I write them and this box of 100 folders shows that I am serious about my writing even though they are all empty].
War and Peace was written without computers or Google. I once had a boss who wrote his business letters in Lotus 123. It was better than DOS edlin. Tolstoy might have killed to get vim but only because Org-mode had not been invented.
The serious point is that software has a learning curve, and learning novel writing software is not writing a novel either. What's the best HN comment writing software? Certainly not the browser on my touch screen phone, but sometimes I use it anyway. But not for this comment.
Consider turning on noprocrast.
Good luck, have fun.