#Scrivener and devonthink pro professional

Not only did I not have the luxury of covering only what interested me, I didn't actually want to - I wanted to find out something new every day, and I can't recall ever covering a story in which I couldn't find something interesting. Like any journo, I was used to starting from scratch on a topic that I knew nothing about and making myself sufficiently knowledgeable about it to have an intelligent and probing conversation with an expert in the subject. When I was a working reporter, I seldom had any idea what I was going to be called upon to cover on any given day, not even within my specialist areas.

Research is second nature to me, as it is to most journalists. They say write what you know: but what you know already won't keep you going and even if you know a lot it'll get stale eventually, so you have to learn to write what you don't know, both in terms of facts and feelings. Writing about your own experiences can be fascinating if you do it well, but few people in the world have a life so rich, extraordinary, and varied that retelling it can sustain more than one book.

#Scrivener and devonthink pro professional

(That's a vacation, for US readers.) But you're going to have to do better than that if you want to be a professional fiction writer. Any ten-year-old can turn in a pretty reasonable essay about what they did on their summer holidays.