Get With the Program - Get a Tablet...

Good article about novelists using tablets...they get it...makes it so much easier to write a novel with using a tablet....and used Microsoft One Note to put his notes together...on of my favorites with MS Office..voice dictation is becoming even easier for me to use as well with the Sahara Tablet as I can dictate without using a headset in a reasonably quiet area...nice...BD

.....” Powers wrote in an e-mail message — or rather, dictated, since he uses the voice recognition software built into the Tablet PC operating system to compose everything, including his novels. Computer programs allow novelists “to build up dense and interconnected views of the world they are recreating,” he added.

Powers also poured the background research into hyperlinked notebooks using Microsoft OneNote, a program more commonly used by businesses, which allows you to combine text documents, e-mail, images, spreadsheets and video and audio material into one searchable document. He then mapped out possible changing interactions between characters. “These notebook sections gradually grew into the kernels of individual dramatic scenes, which I could then work up in parallel,” Powers said. “The combination of software programs (each of which links seamlessly into the other) allowed for simultaneous top-down and bottom-up composition.”