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By: Webby Tips for Writers #25: Plot Like a Pro, Blog Roundup : Inky Fresh Press

Webby Tips for Writers #25: Plot Like a Pro, Blog Roundup : Inky Fresh Press — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:33:52 +0000

[...] 5 Visual Strategies for Plotting Your Novel, by Suzannah Windsor Freeman [...]

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NaNoWriMo: Quick Preparation Tips and Resources — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:27:19 +0000

[...] 5 Visual Strategies for Planning Your Novel: Use these techniques to help you visualize your plot. [...]

By: What Should I Write About? Focusing Your Ideas

What Should I Write About? Focusing Your Ideas — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:11:18 +0000

[...] around with ideas. When you get a vague inspiration, use some visual strategies to help you explore the possibilities. Try looking at photographs or magazine pictures, browse [...]

By: suzannah

suzannah — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:58:35 +0000

Ooh, good point! Thank you

By: suzannah

suzannah — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:57:46 +0000

Thanks, Claire I think most people will love Scrivener whether they’re visual learners or not. It’s just an all-around amazing program! I love its full page mode where you can black out everything but the text on a white page (which happens to kind of look like a book page). For me, it’s visually appealing and doesn’t distract. Still, I sometimes just use it in normal mode, and that’s great too.

By: claire

claire — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:02:27 +0000

Awesome, Suzannah!
loved, loved, loved this piece. I’m a very visual person (love lots of colour and movement ). So, academic writing –which is what i’m mainly doing these days–has always seemed a bit dry to me. Word just doesn’t have the colour and movement I crave. Will Scrivener hit the spot?
Their introductory video is brilliant. Easy to follow. Love the creator’s accent. 30-day trial, here i come!

thanks again and hope you’re having a wonderful day!

By: techquestioner

techquestioner — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:57:04 +0000

RE Shuffling things around in a word processor: Locate the drag-and-drop editing feature and make sure that it is OFF! When the feature is ON, anytime your mouse jiggles while you are scrolling from one page to another, you can inadvertently pick up a block of text and drag it somewhere else. When drag-and-drop is OFF, you have to deliberately CUT and PASTE paragraphs from one location to another. This reduces the insanity-inducing effect of word processors considerably.

By: suzannah

suzannah — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:24:27 +0000

Yeah, pictures are generally better for settings than for characters. Once in a while I see a picture and think, “Oh, that’s exactly how I imagined him/her!” But not usually.

Using a chalkboard is a good idea, too. Thanks!
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