STORYSPACE: Fresh Pineapple & Jello
On the one hand, fiddling around yourself to learn software (I’m talking pretending the manual doesn’t exist and resisting subtle suggestions) does give you intimate knowledge of how things work. On the other, your clever circumnavigations eventually lead to a better solution that’s usually in the manual or given through subtle suggestions.
With so many writing spaces and links (though far from novel-number) and growing hour by hour, the map view showing all was getting a bit unwieldy. I did love the one screen view, but the chart, tree and outline views were useless. But I was starting to lose spaces* and being directionally dysfunctional, hopelessly lost.
I’ve since saved the project one more time under a different name and shoved boxes into boxes to see how it worked. Boring in map view, but much nicer in the others (except tree–what’s up there?) and I’ll see what it’s like to work with as far as writing and linking.
*FP&J Take 2: Notes are neat but no, official links are better. On the map I could never find the notes anyway so I’ll be turning them all into official links.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology
November 3rd, 2007 at 10:43 am
If I ever become advanced enough as a writer this is what I’ll use, storyspace that is. :o) and I’ll come here to learn how to use it.
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:32 pm
You are advanced enough as a writer for this program; it’s just a case of wanting to invest the money into investigating a new way of writing.
I’d suggest that after you visit the Eastgate site, you might want to check out one of the CD’s that they have listed possibly available at your local library. See if you like the format. Though I wasn’t a happy camper until I read Steve’s, that’s just my nature to go kicking and screaming into the night. But try it and let me know what you think.