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An overall look at the storyboard showed me who was being neglected. Pull down tabs also take you to whichever chapter you need to work on next.Īnd those colors? I designated a color for each POV character. I can rearrange scenes simply by dragging them into place.Īny change I make on the story board is automatically transferred to the main writing/editing sections of the program. It also forced me to organize scenes into more manageable parts. This immediately helped me focus on the vital turning points in my story. Instead of one long manuscript, I had to separate it into major parts. To use the story board format, I had to start thinking of my novel in a different way. The columns of color-coded boxes are chapters within those parts. The non-colored column of boxes on the left are “parts” of my book. One of my main reasons for investing $70 in Write It Now 4 was for the Story Board feature.

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What I didn’t know is that writing software would change my entire approach to writing a novel.

I had a separate Word doc with character profiles, and another with chapter summaries, among others. I’d written my first novel in Word, using global finds to locate my last stopping point with “start here,” or “changes needed,” or highlighting my notes to myself in red. I was struggling to remember who had done what, who knew what, and did I change that yet in a previous chapter? The crocodiles were hungry to snap up anything that fell. I had way too many balls in the air–complex plot, historical references, multi-layered characters, puzzles, action scenes, spiritual themes, challenging settings, dynamic relationships. I was a juggler on a tightrope balancing over a pool of crocodiles.