Re: The Bottom Line

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Posted by fgrieser
2004-10-14 09:30:30

Hi Steve.

For me a single piece of software wouldn´t do. Data management and outlining are 2 completely separate applications: One means collecting (and organizing - I don´t need an outliner for that), the second is part of the writing process.

I use 3 tools for these processes:

* Info Select for storing and organizing pieces of information
* Notemap for outlining non-fiction book and other larger projects (for articles the outlining capabilities in MS Word usually suffice)
* Storylines for outlining fiction projects. Storylines (from http://www.writerscafe.co.uk) lets you break a story down into scenes which you put on index cards. The big difference to similar tools such as ndxCards or LonelyNotes is that you can arrange several storylines in parallel (that is useful when you write a novel from several points of view or mix several stories) and still not lose control over each storyline. Storylines is part of a more comprehensive set of writer´s tools, which I, however, don´t use.

Franz

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