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March, 2011:

Fixing black text bug

We are fixing the rare bug that makes the highlighting switch on to black, to give a black bar of text. This should be done soon. I has proven more tricky than seems possible for such as small error in display.

It is easy to work around by highlighting text and setting the highlight color to whatever it should be (it seems to do it for initial white/black combi only).

Anyway thought I’d let you know! A new version upgrade will be here when it is fixed.

Make a Story layout with Earth, Moon and Sun – accurate distance and scale

This is accurate for the diameters and also distances:

  • the Moon is about a quarter the diameter of the Earth, and 30 diameters away
  • the Sun is 109 times the Earth’s diameter, and 11,700 diameters away.

See Earth, Moon and Sun – accurate distance and scale >

This is easy to do in Story Lite. Even with a smallish Earth / Moon the Canvas size has to be 125,000 pixels. This is about 122 normal computer monitor widths. It can be done (Story Lite can do anything) and navigate by using the red box on the Info Map. Just download and try out in the software.

I suppose this is a bit like a SF fantasy of space travel – move your frame of reference and there you are.

Next stop – Alpha Centauri – 4.37 light years. That is a lot of pixels.

Just added Twitter account to my feed into Facebook

So Story Lite blogs pop up everywhere – good eh?

Twitter account for following is Story_Lite

New video of fiction writer using Story Lite

I am just making a new video as current videos are about features not benefits…

Now live on Youtube and our front home page.

I used Story Lite to do the notes and ideas for it, which is one of the strengths of the program.

I can add boxes, edit, move boxes around, get things in right order, change layout etc, very fast. In Word you’d have to use Split Screen, and all that, which is a nuisance. Of course if I was making a professional final document for publishing I might export from Story Lite as RTF into Word or Open Office and do the pro level layout for actual publishing.

So before I actually start editing the video, I exported the layouts – this just puts all of the content of the boxes, in order, from the Story file out into a web version (HTML) or a text version with formatting (RTF).

I have pasted this web version into here, just for fun really. I also want to see how Facebook’s RSS Graffiti handles this post.

Here it is:

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FICTION

How to use Story Lite

This is main box for editing chapters.

One box per chapter

or One big box for all text.

Can split up text into other boxes for:

Editing

Rearrangement of story sections

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HOW TO USE …

1: Boxes

This is main box for editing chapters.

One box per chapter

or One big box

2: Have a box for

Protagonist

Antagonist

Sidekick

Characters

Plotlines

Timelines

Places

Moods

Highlights

Climaxes

3: Story Structure

Depends on type of story

Simplest is

Problem / Challenge

Struggle

Climax / Success

Might be biography style

4: Working

Show making boxes

Moving boxes

In view
Out of view

Layout design

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Have a box for

Protagonist

Antagonist

Sidekick

Characters

Plotlines

Timelines

Places

Moods

Highlights

Climaxes

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Story Structure Boxes

Depends on type of story

Simplest is

Problem / Challenge

Struggle

Climax / Success

Might be biography style

Modern / post modern

Comedy – farce with doors opening etc

Detective etc

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Working

Show making boxes

Moving boxes

In layout view
Out of layout view

Layout design – arrangement

When stuck for ideas, or thinking, can move boxes around

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Images:

Writer starting story

Using pc to add boxes for:

Ideas

Notes

Main fiction text box

Can use layout of boxes for arrangement of notes etc.

Drag boxes away, out of view.

Drag back in to see or have handy.

At end, or whenever, export all boxes to word processor.

Can easily share file with someone else.

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Ends

Story Lite live

The Windows installer was put on here yesterday and the Mac ones should be online very soon.

Sign up for Mac installer as it will be on soon, and has the same download password as the Windows one. We will let you know when it is online.