Misleading Jackass

As a frustrated writer, I'm always looking for a better way to help me organize my thoughts. I use MS Word to write, both at home for fun and at work for profit (although my secretary prefers WordPerfect - we occasionally have words, so to speak). So I was intrigued by a piece in the Sunday New York Times Magazine by Virginia Heffernan called "An Interface of One's Own." It's all about a Word alternative called Scrivener, designed by a writer for writers. Great idea, huh? It's is, except for one small problem - it's a Mac-only program.

That's right - for the vast majority of us who work in Windows,* Scrivener is not an option. Is that mentioned anywhere in the piece? Nope. That would have been good to know before I went poking around the Scrivener website! *grumble grumble grumble*

* Contrary to the cutesy ads, Windows PCs dominate the market (to the tune of 97-98% share) and appear to be used by most of the folks in the writer's forum I frequent.