Ok folks here is a discovery I made the other day

[nadinbrzezinski]

It is called Mellel, which works well with Scrivener.

What is Mellel? It is a word processor.

So what? Well, it is stable. That is something I appreciate in any application.

It is also an evolving exercise.

Though it does have some problems.... (I will need to go to my other work horses when I need an index, or to edit large swaths of text)

That said, it is stable... did I mention that? And Neo is not as stable as this sucker. And I-Works is not as stable either

Now word processors are like wine, and we may not agree fully, but for banging out first and second drafts, I like it. I actually bought it, and I am using right now at Lion's Coffee House... while listening to San on the Rachel Madow show.

Here is a link.... (and if you are doing academic writing it MIGHT be the ticket since it also works with bookends)

http://www.redlers.com/

[alfredo]

1. I use Bean for when I need a running word count.

http://www.bean-osx.com/Bean.html

Tex-Edit for when I really need to clean up text.

http://www.tex-edit.com/

Really like this editor.