For a writer there's no greater feeling than the pen gliding across the page or fingers dancing along the keyboard. My Story Writer novel writing software delivers a new level of technology and organization to empower your writing - from the start with that first nugget of an idea to the day your work is published.
Writing isn't easy. There are so many things to take into account when you write a story: your characters, the setting, plot details. With My Story Writer, you feed those details into the program and free your mind to take on the critical task of writing your novel or short story.
Here's how My Story Writer helps you throughout the writing process:
►Brainstorm: From Idea to Developed Story Concept
Organize your ideas in a multitude of ways to uncover hidden connections and bring your story to life. Use the brainstorming tools to create What If? scenarios, storyboards and other visual representations of your work-in-progress.
• Hierachical/Organization charts
• Flow charts
• Cluster diagrams
►Plan: Make Time for Your Writing Projects
Manage your writing schedule with a variety of calendars and timelines to plan your projects - and track your progress at any time. With My Story Writer Gantt charts, define timelines, requirements and resources to manage your story as a project. Schedule events in your calendar and sync with Microsoft Outlook.
►Outline: Wizard Your Way to a Modifiable Story Template
Using the new story wizard, My Story Writer helps you to generate a fully-formatted template for building your story. The author maintains full flexibility in the creation of the story, but the generated template defines character and plotline entry and exit points, in addition to the general flow of the story.
►Research: More Than Just the Facts
You have multiple research databases available to you within My Story Writer:
• Search for documents on your system based on keywords and phrasings, then include those documents in a research database so that you can collect all of your reference materials in one place.
• Store source data for information provided by a source (person, book, magazine, podcast, video, or other reference), anything that provides the author with information.
• Maintain lists of events in a chronological, event-drive, or process-driven format. For example, a crime scene investigation follows a certain procedure so you can create a list that defines this procedure and use that list as a reference for your story.
• Index a list of websites by URL. You can categorize and even rate them.
►Create: Write That Story!
Create characters and locations and store them in the Character Bank and Location Bank. Come up with a great idea for a character but they're not right for this story? No problem. Add them to the Character Bank so you don't lose their details until you find their story. Edit your story in manuscript mode or scene mode so you have the choice to construct your story as a set of building blocks - or simply start writing in a completely unstructured format. Using scene mode, write scenes and import them into a story, or write scenes in any order within the structured story template. Scenes can be modified, hidden or made visible at any time. The built-in structure allows you to build your story one scene at a time. Add, edit, and delete scenes or generate a scene intensity index to to determine if a certain scene is effective in your story. Scenes can be sorted and filtered by scene type, character, plotline, and in any other way the author specifies. The editor in My Story Writer is a full-featured word processor specifically designed for manuscript formatting.
►Track: Monitor Your Progress from Start to Submission
Once your novel is complete and you're ready to start submitting your manuscript, use My Story Writer to create query letters, story synopses and book proposals. Track submissions at each stage of the submission process and modify the agent & publisher databases to target your submissions. The built-in reporting capabilites allow you to see and print data (research data, character data, location data, etc.), charts and timelines.