Is MasterWriter the next big thing for authors? There’s only one way to find out.
It works on a variety of devices (laptop, phone, tablet) and is compatible with Apple, Android, Windows and iOS, basically meaning that the only devices that don’t have access are pens and typewriters. MasterWriter is a writing tool aimed at authors, screenwriters, and songwriters, professing to be ‘the most powerful suite of writing tools ever assembled in one program’. That’s why in this article I’ll be taking on some of the work for you, road-testing the popular MasterWriter suite of writing tools and delivering a MasterWriter review to help you make up your own mind. The only problem with that advice is that sometimes, especially when you’re comfortable with your current writing tools, it can seem like more trouble than it’s worth to investigate new, potentially better options.
At a certain point, it makes sense to take stock of new developments – whether they be hardware or software – and damn the questionable example of an infinite number of monkeys in favor of something that makes it easier to produce great work. You’ve Got Maileven introduces Greg Kinnear’s impassioned, intellectual columnist by showing he has three typewriters, suggesting he’s either of near-sublime virtue or that he stumbled across some kind of sale in the movie’s unseen prologue.īut whatever writerliness we’re told is bound up in using the simplest possible tools rarely translates into productivity or better craft.
If anyone has the pinned down KB let me know.Can writers afford to be precious about how they write? Pop culture certainly seems to think we should be – showing an author at their typewriter is shorthand for a kind of worthy artistry in most movies, while anyone on their laptop or (shock, horror) a tablet is suggested to be a coffee-shop-haunting dilettante.
My contention is that this could be related to some XP Home Edition KB Express download most notably SP 3.
PC and remove that KB if that is the culprit and suddenly the MasterWriter on PC will work again. This event will allow me to pin down the KB if that is the culpirt. The event happened inside Aug – 1st Half of Sept. I will be able to see when the MasterWriter will stop working again like it's twin on the PC. Now that I've rolled back the system 2 months to July 31st on laptop Laptop I have nada software except preloaded Dell stuff - same as PC when I bought these in 06-07, but the PC is where I load all the software and use it like a workhorse, I do everything.
Now that I have it running on laptop every time I do an MS update I write down the KB and then open the MasterWriter 1.0 to verify its status, it is the only way to pin down the alleged KB culprit. The culprit of the glitch appears to be anĪlleged KB download. The only constants on both computers are MS Windows Updates (Express) and McAfee Total Protection updates. But my PC where I cannot do a system restore beyond Sept
My PC because it is the workhorse only allowed Sept 27th futile for the time line of this problem.Īfter the laptop system restore I was able to re-install MasterWriter and it runs beautifully. Loading files from PC much like a backup.
On the laptop I have nothing on there except Then this past week I tried Auslogics registry cleaner/restore center/restore point where on the laptop I was allowed a generous system restore to July 31st. All the while in constantĬontact with the vendor who is equally baffled by it all. I tried many different things like uninstalling McAfee Total Protection even though in the Quarantine it has no traces of blocking the software that I was able to use for 4 years unscathed, then reinstalled MW and still it refuses to run. Time I used the software was circa end of July. I’ve been using MasterWriter 1.0 since 4 years without ever a problem but suddenly in past 3 or so weeks when last I opened it, it refuses to open on both computers. Using Dell PC and Laptop, both XP Home Editions SP 3, P4, RAM 1.99.