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I use Scrivener to collect my writings. I also use Tinderbox to graphically represent my notes, which can now synch up with Scrivener as well. For mind mapping I use My Thoughts and Inspiration. I avoid software that pretends to teach you how to write and favour that which helps the writer organise the chaos of their own writing and notes. On the iPad I use iThoughts to mind map, Notebooks to synch with Scrivener and I dabble with Manuscript whose layout I like, but which cannot synch with other programs so well. I am eagerly waiting for the Scrivener iPad app due out at the end of this year.
Those of you who may like to think more deeply about software, and its uses, might find this link interesting by the maker of Tinderbox, Mark Bernstein: http://www.markbernstein.org/NeoVictorian.html
And finally, for a piece of real writerly software fun, go to the Lazarus Corporation and put your writing into their original Text Mixing Desk at http://archive.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/cutup/textinput.php – to see the Cut-UP technique, favoured by William Burroughs, who once said:
“The best writing seems to be done almost by accident, but writers, until the cut-up method was made explicit…had no way to produce the accident of spontaneity. You cannot will spontaneity. But you can introduce the spontaneous factor with a pair of scissors.”
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I’ll have to check out the “Free Plane” program. It looks fun. For some of my longer work, it seems it would help if I could have character files in this program, rather than looking up an alphabetical listing in my docs folder. Maybe?
Having a dictionary on my toolbar is a definite need. I’ve no idea why my executive assistant isn’t doing this stuff for me! :-)
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I visited Tinderbox and look forward to either their Windows version or my purchase of a Mac :-)
As you know, I’m not the kind of person who likes to use programs like Scrivener or yWriter—just my particular process…
I love Mark Bernstein’s statement: “The Arts & Crafts movement failed in consumer goods, but it could succeed in software.”
Also, the Cut-UP technique isn’t something I would use…
My feeling about spontaneity in writing is to have a permeable relationship with one’s Unconscious :-)
Thank you, Jane, for letting us peek into your computer—I’m sure there are readers of this blog who will benefit from your recommendations.
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Simone,
You might want to explore RoughDraft. You can set up a folder (or nested folders) and have it in the sidebar; then, open any or all the files there and quickly jump between them..
It would mean working in .rtf files but they’re easy enough to change into Word files after you’ve attained a certain stage of the drafting process…
Also, with FreePlane, you could have the character names on the mind-map (along with other aspects of the work) and each name could have an associated file attached to it—so you can contemplate the graphic relationships of characters and, whenever necessary, open the associated file and work on it…
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“…My feeling about spontaneity in writing is to have a permeable relationship with one’s Unconscious…”
I think that is the very best kind :)
I also checked out FreePlane – it looks really good and is available for Mac :)
Tinderbox for Windows is in development now….
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It’ll be interesting to find out what you do with FreePlane, jane :-)
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I have just been reading your blog. Thank you so much for this post. I am going to download Scrivener. It is an excellent program and much easier that anything else I have ever used.
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Good for you!!
Don’t know if you’ve read it but I have another post about Scrivener…
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