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
ibooks on the iphone and ipad
This looks very nice; can keep the kids occupied I suppose.
ibooks on ipad iphone - Winnie the Pooh
No one ever mentions climate change these days, it seems to be last year’s thing. Isn’t the constant recharging of batteries on all these mobile devices, er, excuse me, bad for the planet? That sounds so 2010!
Most normal homes now have 2-? mobile devices on practically all the time – smart phones, netbooks, laptops, ipads, tablets… wall flatscreen TVs in many rooms… just sitting there using up a bit of power.
I know some older people who switch off their mobile phone when not using it… this is a bit weird as they cannot be called. Or perhaps that is the idea.
This mania for social media, always connected, being rammed down everyone’s throat now (even in print ads for saucepans etc), I always think you should look at the bottom line, which is device manufacturers profits and service providers profits… marketers and the app developers are along for the ride. Perhaps social media will be ‘so 2011‘…
This Pooh story on ibook for iphone/ipad is a modern objectification of a nice old book into this advanced multimedia object. It is all a sort of training for future connectedness, and immersion in modernity. Which is not what Pooh was about at all (the new Disney cartoon versions have Tigger as lead character, and a scooter girl being active).
But of course a book is technology. Adapt and survive.
Our tech writer Azeema is blogging here about some of these ereader devices over the next week or two. We were going to have a section on ereaders and ebooks, maybe later.
Story Lite is a publishing format, and we are producing an ipad version soon. So who are we to talk about energy use?
Here is the link:
ibooks on the iphone and ipad >
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