This sounds like an interesting project.  My advice is to make a few
screenshots that give people an idea what you are working towards.  Of
course, they could be completely fake, but it would be helpful to
understand for people like me who haven't used Scrivener.


On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Prompted by a couple of recent threads on help-gnu-emacs
> (http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/87787), I am trying to
> create a minor mode for org that would implement some of the cool
> features of Scrivener
> (http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php).
>
> Scrivener is  a closed-source but still very cool authoring tool for
> writers.  After testdriving it, I find that Scrivener's interface
> really makes it easy to concentrate on writing while still being aware
> of the overall structure of a big project.  Lots of my daughter's
> friends use it for National Novel Writing Month, in which they try to
> write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days; and I'm finding that more and
> more of my students have switched to Scrivener from Word or
> Libreoffice, over which it offers a lot of improvements (though it's
> not so good atthings like footnotes).
>
> Emacs is pretty different from Scrivener (!!), but I still think we
> could implement some of its features, and that doing so would make
> emacs/org-mode a *way* better environment for writers.  So I've
> started working on org-writers-room.el.  I'm a terrible coder, and I
> can't think in Lisp at all, so I think the code is pretty bad!  And
> right now it doesn't do much -- just sets up the basic window layout
> and define one or two functions  But the ambitions are described in
> more detail on the github repository:
>
> https://github.com/titaniumbones/org-writers-room
>
> I would be really grateful for feedback from both coders and writers.
> I'd especially love it if anyone had some ideas on how to implement
> the missing features, or better yet, was able to write some code for
> the project!  As I say, I feel a little over my head when it comes to
> elisp.
>
> Thanks very much!
> Matt
>
>