https://syntopikon.com/interests/founder/Recent content in Founder on SyntopikonHugoenFri, 19 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://syntopikon.com/conversations/keith-blount/Fri, 19 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://syntopikon.com/conversations/keith-blount/<h2 id="who-are-you-and-what-do-you-do">Who are you, and what do you do?</h2> <p>I’m Keith Blount, the founder, director and lead developer of Literature &amp; Latte. We build apps for writers, the most well-known being Scrivener.</p> <h2 id="how-did-you-get-interested-in-that">How did you get interested in that?</h2> <p>I’ve always been interested in writing, and I’ve always been interested in computers, despite my humanities background. When I was working on long texts some time ago - an MA dissertation, then an unfinished PhD thesis and an unfinished novel - I found existing writing software cumbersome. Most of it was based on the idea that you start at page one and write until you’re finished, whereas my writing process wasn’t so sequential, and involved chapters or sections in different files, index cards with synopses that got moved around, and hand-written or spreadsheet-based outlines.</p>