In medieval times educated men (or serfs who found themselves in the role of bard, thanks to the generous plot of a fantasy novel) would periodically receive royal orders to write poems, census results, execution speeches, and the like.

If you were one of these would-be writers, a coach with golden, diamond-studded wheels pulled up to your third floor walk-up and a gang of loyalists traipsed upstairs to announce that an important member of the royal court was now at your disposal: The Scribe.

The Scribe wrote down everything you said. Much like Agnes Gooch in Auntie Mame, if that’s more your genre. Either way, fast forward a thousand years ‘n’ change and the Web grants publishing rights to everyone. It even gives all of us plebeians our very own Scribe: ScribeFire

After you install ScribeFire, start by clicking on the icon in the bottom right:

The ScribeFire features fill up the bottom of your browser window to let you blog and format the content you’re currently viewing no matter where you are on the Web:

Follow prompts to set up your account and connect to all of your blogs:

ScribeFire supports eight different blogging services:

You can compose, edit or drag and drop content for a new post:

When ScribeFire is open, you’ll see icons on the far left that let you blog (deflault), monetize, share, adjust settings and get more info about ScribeFire:

Don’t feel like creating an entire post?  Try the sharing feature:

ScribeFire has the details down to let you tag posts, upload images, set timestamps, save works-in-progress as notes, post an entry as a draft and more…

Post from Elise Allen, whose notion of life under the rule of a monarch is largely misinformed. See all posts by Elise Allen.