Wednesday, October 20, 2010

How J.K. Rowling writes her novels


The Order of the Phoenix, the original spreadsheet (click on the image to see a larger version). Why doesn’t she just use Excel like everyone else?

Monitor: Marginal Revolution

2 comments:

  1. This probably explains why that one was the wost of the series...

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  2. I thought I was on Boing Boing for a moment (and that's a compliment).

    It has to be said, Excel is fine for rows and columns of numbers but isn't much use for text. I tried maintaining a submissions spreadsheet in Excel but found it unwieldy. Someone, somewhere probably has an open source app that's perfect for writing novels and managing submissions...

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