Sebastien Berthet
9/26/2009 8:51 am
Hello!
Edwin, I'm the author of CbC and I'm glad you appreciate it.
What your're developing seems very different to me, although some overlaps may blur those differences.
CbC is Word with a project treeview (? la Visual Studio, habit that comes from the job...). John has perfectly summarized what it does and how it should be seen as a tool.
I just wish to add here that although CbC is a freeware, there is a *huge* development effort in it (the first release was in 2001). I use it everyday, and dozens of other writers have sent me regular emails to correct and improve it over the years. This is why I think too it's now pretty stable.
On the other hand, CbC will never evolve to a data organization tool, with mind mapping, data mining, instant full text search, and all those great features you are developing. From my point of view, these features are mainly pre-writing stuffs: they are extremely useful to organize the author's "universe" and pull coherent characters and a nicely packaged plot out of the chaos. When it comes to the actual writing of the novel draft, doing mindmaps again sounds to me like adding milk in a cooked pastry. Maybe that's just my way to work... I know there are two big churches for writing methods: 1) write a plan and follow that plan (Elisabeth Georges) and 2) write as it comes and that plan will emerge (Stephen King).
From what I've understand of your software, I would say that CbC may be for writers of church 1, and your software for writers of church 2...
Anyway, I can't wait trying your software! Good luck with your developments ! Once your software is released, I will add a link on the CbC homepage.
Kind regards,
S?bastien
Edwin, I'm the author of CbC and I'm glad you appreciate it.
What your're developing seems very different to me, although some overlaps may blur those differences.
CbC is Word with a project treeview (? la Visual Studio, habit that comes from the job...). John has perfectly summarized what it does and how it should be seen as a tool.
I just wish to add here that although CbC is a freeware, there is a *huge* development effort in it (the first release was in 2001). I use it everyday, and dozens of other writers have sent me regular emails to correct and improve it over the years. This is why I think too it's now pretty stable.
On the other hand, CbC will never evolve to a data organization tool, with mind mapping, data mining, instant full text search, and all those great features you are developing. From my point of view, these features are mainly pre-writing stuffs: they are extremely useful to organize the author's "universe" and pull coherent characters and a nicely packaged plot out of the chaos. When it comes to the actual writing of the novel draft, doing mindmaps again sounds to me like adding milk in a cooked pastry. Maybe that's just my way to work... I know there are two big churches for writing methods: 1) write a plan and follow that plan (Elisabeth Georges) and 2) write as it comes and that plan will emerge (Stephen King).
From what I've understand of your software, I would say that CbC may be for writers of church 1, and your software for writers of church 2...
Anyway, I can't wait trying your software! Good luck with your developments ! Once your software is released, I will add a link on the CbC homepage.
Kind regards,
S?bastien