Promoting Dabble (because it’s awesome and I love it)
Writers of tumblr! I give unto you the best writing tool that I stumbled across last year: Dabble!
NaNoWriMo is coming up, and, if you have the same luck with word processors as I do, don’t throw your computer out the window. Instead, head over to https://dabblewriter.com and try this thing out!
Now, I know NaNoWriMo doesn’t actually result in a complete novel, but it sure is a lot of fun to participate in and gets me 50k more words down in my current WIP.
But four years ago, tragedy struck!
Microsoft Word crashed died on my computer. I’m not kidding. I did everything I could think of and there’s no reviving this thing. Luckily, I could still upload everything to Google Docs. Alas, I couldn’t use Google Docs to write because my WiFi (for reasons I still don’t understand) is garbage. Essentially, it drastically limits my ability to access certain websites between midnight and 4am. Not a big deal you say? It is when you’re an insomniac and you can’t access Google (or any of Google’s apps like, oh, I don’t know, Google Docs) and a long list of other sites I frequent that aren’t relevant to this post. Since then, I’ve discovered the GOM VPN Chrome extension, and that’s been working for me for the past week (granted I had to wait til 4:01AM to install it, but y’know, it works).
Fortunately, it was right around that time that I discovered Scrivener! That was a decent enough word processor. It was a huge improvement to Word and Docs when it came to novelling. Plus I only had to pay a one-time reduced price of $50! Thanks NaNoWriMo prizes! I used Scrivener for about a year and a half before it met the same fate as Microsoft Word. I did manage to reboot it long enough to export my work to .docx files and upload them to Google Docs, but then I was faced with the same problem I’d faced before!
In my desperation, I turned to paper and ink (I wasn’t so desperate as to open Pages). But between my practically illegible handwriting and atrocious spelling (spell check has been the savior to many a draft/essay), it wasn’t long before I was searching for something, anything I could replace Scrivener (RIP) with.
And that is when I found... *trumpets play* DABBLE! It was similar enough to Scrivener that I felt comfortable promoting it on Facebook. Then I put it to the test with the free trial for NaNoWriMo. I was in love. It’s so much simpler than Scrivener–user friendly, organized, and incredibly easy to use. Not to mention, it’s constantly improving. Come December 1st, I was more than willing to pay the affordable subscription.
So there you have it. The story of how Dabble made my writing life easier.
tl;dr: Dabble is awesome. I love it. 10/10 would recommend. See site for more details.
