Anyone Used MasterWriter

[jchitty]

Quote:I hate to be the wet blanket but I was less than impressed. I feel that for what it does it is way over priced and the support I got from them left a very bad taste in my mouth. My advice would be to buy a rhyming dictionary and put the rest into your submission fund. When I tried to submit a song to Songuard it did'nt work because they said their program needed a patch to work with QuickTime. They said they would contact me when the patch was ready, that was 18 months ago and not one word. When I wrote them after 1year they responded that they were still working on it. Your milage may vary.......I'm with you on this one, Koul. But only because I don't like newfangled things. I am terribly disorganized, but I don't think I could function that well if everything was wrapped up into a neat package. My dining room table is littered with sheets of paper, scattered bits of lyrics on grocery bags, gem clips everywhere, a 35 year old thesaurus with a tattered cover, a big bulky yellow tape recorder and one new concession....that rhyming dictionary that you speak of. There is something about a table laden with so much clutter that says, 'get over here and write, dammit.' I don't think I'd get that motivated with Masterwriter.

[Pinkstar]

Thanks for Curio, it does look very cool and helpful I tried to get the demo version of Masterwriter but it gave me problems so I guess I wasn't suppose to work with it. I might give it another try it did look cool. JVB Quote:Coupla quick notes:-- I think ASCAP members get a nice discount too, just BTW. -- Also, I inquired with MasterWriter whether Songuard is available separately, and it is not.-- There is a *different* service out there called SongGuard (two "g"s) that is *not* affiliated with MasterWriter. I contacted MasterWriter about them, asking, "Hey, is this you guys?" and they were unpleasantly surprised. Yikes!In case anybody needs a more general creative organizational tool: I started using Curio a few years ago (http://www.zengobi.com/). It's for any type of project organization, I think particularly geared toward creative professionals (designers, etc.). But I've used it to track notes on tech setups for different bands (its "sticky lines" are awesome for documenting cabling between pieces of hardware), and for collecting ideas, receipts, stage plots, photos, etc. for music-for-theater projects, and so on. More recently I've created a Curio-based template that roughly follows the method Pat Pattison puts forth in "Writing Better Lyrics." Main idea, object writes, thesaurus search, rhyme worksheet, etc.While Curio doesn't have a built-in thesaurus, it has a nifty Internet search tool called Sleuth that searches multiple reference sites on the term you enter. It includes standard ones like Thesaurus.com but also any that you customize it to use -- in my case sound-effects libraries. Put in "house" and you can get stock photos of houses, rhymes and definitions of "house," sound effects related to "house", etc.