A Double-Plot is a story device in which you develop your story as an interplay of different, similar characters from different but interrelated time periods. Thus an epic novel can contain chapters or scenes of modern times, like the reading of a will when a patriarch of the family has died and then a flashback [...]

We see from this screen shot the list on the left of over 40 character types. These are the most basic or generic fiction types of characters. You have not only their generic names, you have also fiction and psychological descriptions of the characters to go from. There is no dogmatic writing system here. You [...]

This may never have been done before and so be unique to The Writer’s Interface. There are 51 Event Types in The Writer’s Interface. As we see from the screen shot, each event type is defined or described. This helps you, the writer, understand how to put characters into interactions with each other to generate [...]

To a writer Locations are interesting. Locations carry the visuals that communicate mood and story nuance to the viewer or reader. The Writer’s Interface gives you then a symbolic description of a generic list of places used a lot in fiction and cinema. No one else has put together such a list that we know [...]

In the WriteItNow software the tab folder is called Ideas, and you cannot change that in WriteItNow 3. The Writer’s Interface however uses the Ideas folder for its own Flashbacks folder. Ideas equals Flashbacks here. The Writer’s Interface is full of ideas everywhere and so we chose Flashbacks instead. In The Writer’s Interface you get [...]

Notes is the title we cannot change in WriteItNow, this edition, so we make this folder where we put many of our lists for easy reference. As in the Character Elements List we see in part on the right screen you are given instructions in how to use the list. Here it says that while [...]

This is interesting. Often we need to use our brains to organize our material in more than one way. This author goes so far as to use three kinds of writing software all at once, making duplicates, in order to stay aware of the total and all the parts achieved so far. Already The Writer’s [...]

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The Writer’s Interface – interactive with WIN software: 2000 Craft Tools

Story Keys are the uniquely intense and dramatic situations that a reader or viewer naturally remembers about a story. Make a list of Story Keys ahead of time so you know what you want to excite your readers about Example: In Gone With The Wind – The Movie one intense moment is Scarlet O’Hara’s moment [...]

1. Make a copy of your original file You have to do a Save As right away to make your copy of The Writer’s Interface(TWI) into a Master Copy that you never alter. Do it now, please. 2. Name the copy with your own story project title When you start a new book project here, [...]

1.    LIST OF SCENE CHALLENGES 2.    MAIN THEME DEVELOPMENT LIST 3.    LIST OF KEY ISSUES AS LEADING QUESTIONS 4.    LIST OF SENSES 5.    PARTIAL LIST OF PLACES 6.    A LIST OF HUMAN VALUES AND CHARACTERISTICS 7.    CHOICES LIST 8.    CHARACTER ARC LIST 9.    READER SUSPENSE LIST 10.    LIST OF MESSAGES 11.    LIST OF TECHNOLOGICAL ITEMS [...]