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
