Happy new year and all that.
Regrettably, my brain seems a little bit cramped these days so I'm not writing much. But I have one story under development, and it seems to work pretty well so far. I'm also pursuing yet another interactive fiction project - and it seems to be working pretty nicely too.
Anyway, to the real topic...
StorYBook seems like a rather nice piece of software. I'll just say it has one pretty damn obvious flaw: while I first used it in the holidays, the most recent version was 2.1.9, and when I got back home, it seems a new version, 2.1.10, came out - a version that incidentally forgot about all of my side characters and seems to have completely messed up the chronological view. I'm sure that's just a temporary bit of confusion and I'll eventually figure out what went wrong.
But otherwise, it seems like a really interesting approach in coming up with characters, locations, and various plot strands, both chronologically and sequentially. It seems to have little quirks still, but it will undoubtedly rule one day. I'm sure this will eventually be of great help when I finally pause and make sense of the horrible mess of notes and prose that begs to be rewritten.
Regrettably, my brain seems a little bit cramped these days so I'm not writing much. But I have one story under development, and it seems to work pretty well so far. I'm also pursuing yet another interactive fiction project - and it seems to be working pretty nicely too.
Anyway, to the real topic...
StorYBook seems like a rather nice piece of software. I'll just say it has one pretty damn obvious flaw: while I first used it in the holidays, the most recent version was 2.1.9, and when I got back home, it seems a new version, 2.1.10, came out - a version that incidentally forgot about all of my side characters and seems to have completely messed up the chronological view. I'm sure that's just a temporary bit of confusion and I'll eventually figure out what went wrong.
But otherwise, it seems like a really interesting approach in coming up with characters, locations, and various plot strands, both chronologically and sequentially. It seems to have little quirks still, but it will undoubtedly rule one day. I'm sure this will eventually be of great help when I finally pause and make sense of the horrible mess of notes and prose that begs to be rewritten.
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