Writing about writing tools, craft, and the making of Bindery.
Vellum produces beautiful ebooks on Mac. Bindery is where you write and revise the manuscript that goes into Vellum. A clear-eyed look at which tool you need and when.
Read →Both are free and browser-based. Reedsy excels at ebook export. Bindery focuses on writing and improving the draft before it ever reaches a formatter.
Read →Scrivener is the industry standard with a steep learning curve. Bindery does less on purpose - a clean canvas, smart prose analysis, and a review portal that gets out of your way.
Read →The most invisible word in fiction is also the most powerful. Here's why we never implemented a thesaurus for dialogue tags - and why you shouldn't want one. The case for the word writers forget to notice.
Read moreDifferent writers start in different places. Bindery gives you all three, and gets out of the way no matter which one you choose. A look at how plotters, pantsers, and hybrids actually use the tool.
Read moreIt's not discipline. It's not inspiration. It's a system - and the system is simpler than you think. The real bottleneck isn't willpower. It's decision fatigue, and there's a practical fix.
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