The Mac App Store is having a sale on creative apps, and so if you\u2019re a writer looking to change your life for less money, here are a few apps I use and recommend:<\/p>\n
Ulysses III<\/strong><\/a>: I can\u2019t say enough good things about Ulysses, which gets better and better all the time. Especially if you still write in Word, I feel sorry for you, and even if I don\u2019t know you, because you\u2019re a human being I love you too much to stand idly by while you waste your life unnecessarily. Learn markdown and come to love plain text! I write everything in Ulysses, which in turn keeps everything organized and backed up, and am close to finishing my first book written entirely within it and it\u2019s unalloyed pleasure to work with it. Be happy and buy it at now for 50% off.<\/p>\n Slugline<\/strong><\/a>: I haven\u2019t used this much because, you know, I\u2019m only just about to write that screenplay, but it\u2019s a beautiful plain text app that uses the Fountain syntax for script formatting.<\/p>\n Scrivener<\/strong><\/a>: I\u2019ve tried to love this app that a lot of writers, mostly novel writers, use and love. Maybe you will succeed where I have failed. What it can do well is format, so even though I\u2019d never use it for a writing environment I can see using it as a place to typeset a book for PDF export and printing, although I use Mellel<\/a> for that.<\/p>\n Acorn 4<\/strong><\/a>: The best light not-at-all-lightweight image editing app.<\/p>\n