… at least that’s my opinion — and I’m sticking to it! I’m talking about a nifty little word processor called RoughDraft.

I talked earlier about Yeah Write, which I love, but personally YW suits me more as a note taker/storer application. For sheer ease of opening up a screen and writing, I give the nod to RoughDraft.

RoughDraft was created by a writer in England named Richard Salsbury. I’m not sure what happened to him, as the last updates to his web site are from 2005. If you need an easy-to-use word processor designed by a creative writer for other writers, then you should get over to that web site right now while it’s still there.

RoughDraft is a freeware word processor that runs on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP. Although suitable for general use, it was specifically designed for creative writing: novels, short stories, articles, plays and screenplays.

“It’s designed to be as practical as possible, offering all the features you need, but without being complicated or awkward to use.,” Salsbury informs.

Among RoughDraft’s special writer’s features are modes to automate formatting plays and screenplays, instant backup of all open files, and automatic creation of cover pages for manuscript submissions with word and page counts.

RoughDraft. I love it! Thanks, Richard, wherever you are.

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