It’s not easy to write a novel, play or memoir and have it hang together as one whole. Yet you must do so since intelligent readers will sense something inadequate if your story is not all interconnected in a way that makes sense. WriteItNow is a good and improving, organizing software. Writers also need a [...]

This is the main screen of the WriteItNow software with the file in use being The Writer’s Interface. Note that the left column is an outline tree. It has all the pages you will read, modify and write in the right text column. The right text column has the names of its key folders at [...]

The Writer’s Interface Procedures Note that we clicked on The Writer’s Interface Procedures in the left outline tree and got the page on the right under the Chapters tab or folder. This shows how quickly you can go anywhere in your manuscript and Interface Writing Plan for quick connection or reference. In the right text [...]

Story Keys are primary story elements that stir interest and excitement in the reader. These therefore should be included in your development of story, of course depending on genre, if you are a genre writer. Thus, if these keys do not fit exactly your writing style, then make a modified list that does fit your [...]

We have more than one The Writer’s Interface chapter on what a chapter is. As a writer you are equipped with templates and procedures for creating chapters. Thus at the beginning you get these to study and modify for creating story chapters. We see here the usual five key elements that make up almost any [...]

Chapter To Write Your Text In In WriteItNow, and with The Writer’s Interface, you can write your actual chapter text right into all the planning that you do. Note the square cross above as a button. When you click on this you produce a blank chapter with no title. Where it says Title put your [...]

Notice the specificity of the suggestions. We see part of a list of craft points to deal with in a Reflection Scene. This is all original material from the author based on his ability to write manual type books in psychology. The WriteItNow software has an Ideas Generator but no format structure in terms of [...]

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 [...]