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Saturday 29 January 2011

Overview of my week

The weekend is here again.Where does the time disappear to . I have had a semi productive week but got distracted with my search for a writing programme to help me get more organised.


I really like the look of Scrivener but at the minute it is only for MAC and i need windows. A windows version will be coming out this year (no date announced as yet) but me being Little Miss Impatient i wanted something to use now!
Although you are able to download a public Beta trial version to test. But be warned it still has development problems


http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivenerforwindows/


Yesterday was for the first time in months a kids free day.Was i writing?No.
I was a bit naughty and just spent the whole day playing with two writing software programmes you can download for free off the Internet called


yWriter5


http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5.html


and


Storybox


http://www.storyboxsoftware.com/


Storybox is free to use but you will get pop ups requesting you to help pay for the running costs.


So far i prefer storybox.I have got the hang of most things on there but there are still a couple of things i am not sure about.  Give all these systems a look.


Change of subject but it is funny how you get inspiration in the strangest places. Yesterday morning i was sitting in the doctors office waiting to go in but had forgotten to bring a book, or a note pad and did not fancy reading one of the magazines on offer about the latest diet or who is sleeping with who.
So there i sat bored looking around the room when i noticed a large framed photo on the wall of a deep bottomless black hole in a glacier.It had a caption that said "Who lives here?"
A light bulb popped on in my head. What if a mythical evil creature was frozen in a glacier that then started to melt? Damn, there i sat with no note pad or pen.Broke the writers rule No.1. But now i have great ideas for my next book :)

6 comments:

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  2. Hi! I'm a new follower. Found you through Shah's Weekend Creative Blog Hop.
    Laurie
    http://lauriethoughts-reviews.blogspot.com/

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  3. Hey chicky!

    I was going to suggest yWriter5, but I see you have done download it. There is a program out there called White Smoke (or something like that) that is a good writer's tool. However, you have to pay for it and I am not to keen on paying for something I haven't heard people use before.

    I haven't tried using yWriter5 as of yet. I still do files and folders on my computer. That is the only way so far I have been able to keep track with things.

    Just thought I would drop by and wish you happy writing! =]

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  4. I just dropped by in the blog hop. I am delighted that I learned something new today. I am in the middle of writing my first novel and after 150 pages it is becoming a bear! My genre is supernatural/with aliens/steampunk.

    Happy writing! :)

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  5. I saw today you follow me on Twitter...thanks! I have been coaching novice writers for a long time and can steer you in a few directions to make your journey to publishing a bit less chaotic. For your main characters...hero and heroine...you want to understand their inner (emotional) and outer (external) Goals, Motivations and Conflicts. To strengthen your lead characters, their GMC's should--must--conflict so the story becomes an adventure to the reader on how these characters will work out their differences and arrive at their happy ending. There is a lot of information on the internet on Goals, Motivations and Conflicts. A friend of mine, Debra Dixon, wrote the book.
    Kimberley Dehn
    www.kimberley-dehn.com
    Writer Interrupted: http://keptbycats.blogspot.com/
    http://twitter.com/#!/KimberleyDehn

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  6. thank you everyone for all your support.You have made my day :)

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