![]() When and where do you write?īack in the before times (it’s 2021, just for the edification of future generations who have doubtlessly stumbled across this in some sort of time capsule), I used to do most of my fiction writing in coffee shops. And in almost all those cases, I write in Markdown. On the iPad, I use the excellent 1Writer. When it comes to tech journalism, the bulk of my writing is either done on my 2017 27-inch iMac 5K, using Bare Bones Software’s venerable BBEdit (mainly for longer pieces), or Red Sweater Software’s MarsEdit, for most shorter pieces that end up on Six Colors or my personal blog. (It’s very complicated to set up and I don’t really recommend it for all but the fiddliest of users.) Oh, and I do maintain a web-hosted wiki of the Galactic Cold War series for private use that runs on software called Gollum. And, beholden as I am to the publishing industry, edits generally happen in Microsoft Word. For beta readers, Scrivener can generate pretty much any format (PDF, ePub, Kindle), so I send ebook versions to my readers to get feedback, which generally just comes in via email. As far as outlining goes, I don’t tend to do much of it, but when I do it’s either in Notes or Pages, because they’re both so lightweight. Ideas that I’m working on generally live in Apple’s Notes app, since it syncs conveniently with my iPhone, iPad, and both Macs. Almost all my fiction writing is done in the fantastic app Scrivener, both for Mac or iPad, though on rare occasion I’ve also used Apple’s Pages word processor for shorter projects. What hardware and software do you write with?įor my fiction work, I tend to write on either my MacBook Air (last year I replaced my aging but beloved 2014 11-inch model with a shiny new 2020 13-inch M1) or, less frequently, on my 2017 10.5-inch iPad Pro, via the Smart Keyboard Cover. I freelance for a few different places, but my writing can predominantly be found at Six Colors, or on Macworld, where I used to be a senior editor but continue to pen my column, Stay Foolish, most weeks. I’m also a technology journalist by trade, which is very similar to being a sci-fi writer, but with fewer laser guns than you’d hope. ![]() The next book, The Nova Incident, arrives in July 2022. Hi there! I’m Dan Moren, author of the Galactic Cold War series of sci-fi espionage adventures, the latest installment of which is The Aleph Extraction which came out in May 2020. Dan Moren Who are you, and what did you write?
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