Thoughts on writing, design, and building Reverie.
Reverie is coming to iPad and iPhone with no sync engine and no account, because your novel is ordinary files in an ordinary folder. The sync you already own carries it everywhere.
Word and Google Docs will hold a novel, but they feel like nothing to write in. What that costs you over a long manuscript, from a game developer turned writing-app maker.
Twenty-five years of making games taught me that how a thing feels is what people enjoy. Reverie is what happened when I aimed that lesson at the writing page instead of adding AI to it.
Why Reverie instead of Scrivener? That's the wrong question. A comparison for novelists, outliners and discovery writers, written by the maker of one of them.
Why there's no AI in Reverie, from someone who uses it every day.
Structure for the writer who finds the story by writing it.
A novelist's honest review of Word, Scrivener, Ulysses, iA Writer and Google Docs. What each one gets right, what's missing, and why I built Reverie.
A writing app for the writer who wants to write but isn't writing.
Why I built a writing app that knows when you're in the zone.