Truby's Blockbuster, on other hand, quickly gets me to heart of my story and has me putting pieces together in a relatively short time. I don't use it for all my projects, but find it most helpful for bigger books.

Could I write without use of software?

Of course.

Would my stories be better for it?

Probably no better. Probably no worse.

Then what's point?

The point is this: story development software can serve both good and evil, depending on how you use it. If you rely too heavily on software, then you defeat purpose of being a writer, which is to bring your own take on world into your work. Your stories will likely begin to all read alike, very cookie-cutter and pre-fabbed. You'll be moving us another step closer to day when computers will write our books for us.

But if you use software to organize your thoughts, to make initial brainstorming process quicker and more efficient, without relying too heavily on each and every aspect of software, then it can serve good in your work.

Much like rules of grammar, rules of struture and story development are there to guide you. Once you thoroughly understand how they work, you're freer to break them. This is when you step forward as a writer, with your own voice, and your own creative approach to writing.

If you'd like to check out some of these programs, here are some good places to get started:

Novel-Writing Programs: http://thesuccessfulwriter.com/novelwritingsoftware/ Screenwriting Programs: http://thesuccessfulwriter.com/screenwritingsoftware/

Whether you decide to use story-development software or not---Steinbeck, Hemmingway, Faulkner and many others did just fine without them---always remember to bring yourself to your work.

That's only true way you'll ever be an original writer.

It’s an intriguing mistake to think that oldest civilisation has greatest wisdom.

Tolerance is basically a tricky way of minimising once own sufferings.

The world exists to let Man philosophise.

The virtue of an American is minimisation of exploitation of his brain and his vice is maximisation of those of others.

The story of world is necessarily and exclusively a story of exploitation and its future would be no different.

Doubt is an eternal nightmare of wisdom.

Nature, by its very nature, is brutal and partial. However, Man has somehow managed to transform nature of its brutality and partiality.

Man is a philosophical animal.

At heart of history there is a revolution.

The only way to be rich is to assume yourself to be poor.

The tragedy of world lies in fact that white is smart but bad and black is good but mad.

Whenever I see suffering in world I tend to be a solipsist.

Truth is an appearance.

Even greatest, deepest, and purest form of love is essentially an expression of exploitation.

Everything in world is capable of arousing all sorts of emotions.

The most rational thing about universe is that it is fundamentally irrational.

At its heart universe has no reason.

The universe is a gigantic non-spatial computer.

The inducer of greatest romantic feeling is deepest philosophical question.

Even God is deceived by unthinkable.

There are three paths to heavens: music, love, and philosophy. Music is shortest but least pleasant one. Love is moderate one. And philosophy is longest but most pleasant one.

All world is a game of mind, mind which ultimately goes wrong.

God is pseudo-governor of morality.

The answer to greatest question is that it is unanswerable.

Man is a racist animal.