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“Writer’s BlockS” - Writing Software
By memoirista | July 9, 2007
The linear nature of a blog like www.hadabrain.net is linear. As you may know, I have started posting stuff for a memoir there.
Today I was looking at software for writers at this site, mostly wanting to check in for the descriptions of software to track submissions. I’m WAAY ahead of myself there, in so many ways. That is, I’m not really ready to track submissions.
Anyway, I stumbled upon a kind of software that sounds ideal for the non-linear nature of the way my memoir has been developing. For example, the entry “Marty” is about (mostly about) my mother. There is a reasonably logical place for it to go in the structure of memory, but in the story so far told on the blog, it doesn’t fit.
The software that would help solve all that, from the descriptions I’ve read, is WRITER’S BLOCKS 3.0. It takes a 3×5 card approach to organizing your writing. That is, blocks of text (such as “Marty”) are put in relationship to each other, in some order, with some color coding. Then I would be able to shuffle them around to my liking.
Even better, I can use it for my memoir, I can use it for a philological article I need to get ready for submission for publication, I can use it in the future for any project that needs to be changed from deductive reasoning to inductive discovery mode, and many more uses yet to be discovered.
I haven’t quite made the move to ordering it (from Absolute Write Store; I think I’d like to hear/read some user reviews. What I’ve read, of reviews on the web, say that the software is good if that’s how you work. That is, if you don’t need prompting on characters and plot.
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