Many of the indie author tools we recommend are ideal for any writer, but Ulysses III is specifically designed for the Mac/Apple/iPad writer, so if you are a Mac user and need an organizational tool to accelerate your fiction-writing efforts, the Ulysses III app may be the perfect solution.
Ulysses III, available in the Apple App Store, is "a powerful tool made for writers – whether you’re an author, a journalist, or a student."
Ulyssess is designed to create a distraction-free writing environment for the writer. Of course, you can help by shutting down notifications from Facebook while you write, but it does provide a clean, clear backdrop for your imagination. David Hewson says, "Writing is hard. Software should make it less so. Ulysses really does." Hewson describes Ulysses this way:
Writing full screen in Ulysses is what really sold me on the app. Somehow it’s as near as dammit to owning a very clever digital typewriter. All you see are your words, presented clearly and simply. Nothing tempts me to step away from them unless I make the very conscious decision to retreat out of the current page and back into the structure of the book. For me that means I write. Very easily sometimes, when with other apps I might be tempted to stray into tinkering. I do this for a living. Productivity counts, and Ulysses delivers it in spades.
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