Liquid Story Binder V4.31

Last week Liquid Story Binder had another upgrade for those with licensed copies. Version 4.31 is out. This holds enhancements to just about every module going, including multi-level undo levels, and some backspace enhancements to the typewriter module. Here’s a quick list of those I find important, but there are many many more -

Multi-level undo has been added to various file types.
The Listing file type has been completely re-written, now with Outline style functionality.

It is now possible to extend individual Timeline items beyond the confines of a single instance. Stretch items using the `Extend Items’ and `Shorten Items’ menu options.
Choose your own Checklist item symbols using the Checklist ‘Content’ menu. Beyond the standard double-click checkmark, there are now over 200 symbols to choose from.

The Typewriter tool now includes TAB functionality and a `Typewriter Backspace Key Editing’ preference. The Typewriter display response has been increased. Enable the ‘Formatting Options’ preference to allow the use of the BACKSPACE key.

Jesse Wall of Black Obelisk Software sent out the upgrade with a download link to members of the LSB Yahoo Group last week. However at this point, the download is not yet available on the Black Obelisk website, which is still showing version 4.21.

If you are keen to always get the latest update of this writing software, join the yahoo group from the Newsgroup menu at the Black Obelisk website.

Incidentally, the typewriter (full screen) writing functions, including the enhancements, are available in the completely free to download Momentum Typewriter which is available from Black Obelisk also. Momentum Writer 2.01 contains the enhancements LSB will do, but is already available to download from the website.

LinkMe : Black Obelisk and Liquid Story Binder

100 Essential Tips and Tools for the Writer of the Future

Amber wrote me to suggest an article might be of interest, and I agree. This article sitting at the Associate Degree website simply lists 100 numbered points for the writer, with links to the websites mentioned. From designing your own business card, to using google trends, there are many tips in amongst these 100 which I found useful for myself also.

LinkMe : 100 Essential Tips & Tools for Writers of the Future

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Twitter and Facebook status updates are micro-blogging systems, however – whereas a blog, no matter how brief, is not as forgiving of large thumbs and small touchpads or keypads on a mobile phone.

About three paragraphs – that’s all I can bare. This signafies the end of my great mobile blogging experiment.

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Mike’s Writing Workshop (another great writing site well worth a bookmark) has posted a brief Affirmations to Write By post today. I’m swiping them to show you these here.

I will read one writing book this month.
I will publish one story by the end of June.
I will spend extra time polishing my work.
I will listen closer to my inner voice.
I will feel better about my finished product.

This is number ten of the affirmations posts, so search Mike’s blog to find the rest. Or better yet, read the blog via a feedreader to pick up all the daily posts – writing quotes, tips and lots more.

Combine these affirmations with a piece of free software – The Motivator – which allows you to input your own affirmations, and pops these up in front of you periodically over the day. You’ll find the link to pick up the Motivator software on the right (refresh if it’s not currently displaying), or you can read my own review here.

Credit : Sunflower by Micheo at Flickr.

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The GenReality blog features a new post on a daily rota, from six different authors published in different fictional genres; and the site promises a look into the lives of those authors, and tips to help us become published.

What is GenReality?

From the site’s sidebar itself comes this explanation -

Genre: a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content.

Reality: the totality of real things and events

Do you want to know where ideas come from? Or what a day-in-the-life is like? What about how a person can beat back their doubts and insecurities to become a best-selling author, or how to take your ideas and make tangible stories out of them?

If you want an honest look at what it’s like to make a living as an author, and how these authors get the job done, then GENREALITY is the place to be.

Get to know these best-selling authors as they share not only their ups and downs of living the dream, but tips and advice on how you can too.

“[Gen]Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” ~ Philip K. Dick

Who are the Bloggers?

• Mondays – Alison Kent, Romance and Contemporary Fiction author, partner in author community, Access Romance
• Tuesdays – Joseph Nassise, Horror author and writing coach, former president of the Horror Writer’s Association.
• Wednesdays – Carrie Vaughn, Urban Fantasy author
• Thursdays – Sasha White – Erotic Fiction author
• Fridays – Lynn Viehl – Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction author
• Saturdays – Jason Pinter, Thriller author

Both Jason Pinter (The Man in Black) and Lynn Viehl (Paperback Writer) hold successful and popular blogs on the subject of writing and publishing already, and the others are linked to their own websites from the About Us page on GenReality. GenReality is certainly a writing blog to watch. Bookmark it or add it to your own feed reader.

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This Ebook package contains 100s of links and details to the best (and often free) resources available for writers out there, and is provided in both a 100 page ebook and flash file mindmap form. Software, websites, services and tools are all detailed and linked to for both the day to day and business side, creative and project management side of a new or working writer.

• For more details, go to the Ultimate Guide for Writers page.
• To download, please go to the Downloads Page (6Meg zip package)

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I was very recently contacted by Roger C Parker, the author of the Daily Writing Tips blog for writers. He picked up on my own liking towards mind maps for writing, and introduced himself and the benefits found on his membership website , Published and Profitable, and in the articles found on his blog.

Roger’s site is a cavern of resources for the writer, especially somebody like me, wanting to make some inroads into creating a career in writing. And he’s graciously offered me, and the readers here at JuicedonWriting.com a free copy of his report on Mind Mapping for Marketers and Writers (more details below). But first, let me take you through the what you can find at Roger’s site.

Published & Profitable

The Published & Profitable website and services offer readers a feast of information. Sign up for Roger’s Write Your Way to Success report, for a free start. This signup is available from the homepage and offers not only a small report for free, but a monthly newsletter and weekly tips.

Onsite, there are copious articles and interviews with authors on topics such as building a web platform for yourself as a writer, and I particularly like the look of the Maps 4 Study series – a series analyzing the factors behind the success and organisation of several bestselling books.

This is a membership subscription site, where members benefit with access to 275+ reports, video content and webinars featuring Roger’s own brand of coaching for writers. Signup on subscription gives you a free 184 report entitled, “Published & Profitable”, along with access to all the site features, which include forums and regular teleseminars.

Members can also access MindMap templates and other templates for help in writing- note taking, planning and promoting your writing work. Roger uses MindJet MindManager, as I do, but also offers these maps as PDFs for non-Mindjet users. As a coaching service plus more, Roger is right on the mark, with topics from planning writing, mindmapping and all the way through to marketing and promoting yourself.

I may well  ask my upcoming Santa if he might be able to fit a subscription to the Published and Profitable services and site for myself this Christmas. Note that I am not an affiliate to Roger’s site, but extremely interested in the content offered there.

The Daily Writing Tips Blog

Look on the Daily Writing Tips blog for daily articles on many topics. Currently, Roger pointed out the Before and After book cover designs to me. This news happens to be profiled with a covershot for an Adoption book, quite fitting for my own personal circumstances. The blog has a normal RSS feed so is easily subscribed to within a feed reader.

Published and Profitable MindMapping Landing Page

From this link here, you will find several mindmapping resources provided by the website, including several free reports on using MindManager for writing projects (there’s a report on using mindmaps for creative briefs, one giving MindManager keyboard shortcuts, and a report on tracking and planning your blog progress). There is also a MindManager template for planning a non-fiction book project.

The final report of interest is the Introduction to Mind Mapping for Marketers and Writers. This is a ten page report which has some interesting ideas in it, including how to recycle blog posts such as some you find here on Juiced on Writing into a report or other media, using a Mind Map to document the URLs and topics. It’s a professional production as are all the others freely found on the Mind Mapping Resources page.

What I’ve Taken Away for Learning

Although currently unable to subscribe to Roger’s services, the site still offers a lot for me to think about. I am in the throws of writing a novel for NaNoWriMo, with two half-finished non-fiction ebooks, and of course – two blogs I need to maintain as the author. Roger’s professional reports have already taught me something about the importance of designing up those reports, and not sticking to the normal expected powerpoint or word templates, which in all honesty often didn’t suit my own graphical nature anyway. Taking a look at his reports has also taught me that I can work more within my mind maps even more so than I have been experimenting with. He’s given me the creative kick I needed at this time of the year.

Take a look at the Daily Writing Tips blog, and signup for that free newsletter and report at least. And see you after Christmas as I hope to enter the subscription site also, and learn more from the coach.

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Here are all the winners with Michael’s own commentary. I wasn’t surprised by many of these which are already plugged firmly into my own feed reader. But there are a couple of nice surprises and new reading material for me.

1. Copyblogger: As the undefeated champ, this blog has held the number-one spot for three straight years!  The baby of Brian Clark, this blog keeps winning because of its excellent and educational articles.
2. Men With Pens: James Chartrand and Harry McLeod are the dynamic duo who continue to deliver rich content and community discussion.
3. Freelance Writing Jobs: Founded by Deb Ng, this site is the first stop for freelance writers seeking new work and great articles (and it remains a top winner since this contest began).
4. Write to Done: This blog delivers a steady stream of excellent articles for all writers and is the product of top blogger Leo Babauta.
5. Confident Writing: Looking for encouragement? Joanna Young will help you take your writing to the next level.
6. The Renegade Writer: Linda Formichelli and Dianna Burell, authors of a book by the same name, help freelance journalists find inspiration.
7. Remarkable Communication: One part writing, one part marketing and one part selling, this excellent blog by Sonia Simone will help any writer succeed.
8. Writing Journey: Looking for a great stop on your writing journey? Bob Younce’s blog will refresh and energize you.
9. Freelance Parent: Two moms, Lorna Doone Brewer and Tamara Berry, provide excellent perspective on writing while balancing time with little ones.
10. Urban Muse: Susan Johnson covers a wide range of excellent topics that all writers will enjoy.

Congratulations to all the winners.

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For me, I would like to have this blog nominated in a future year – it’s good to setoff with a long term objective. In the meantime, I’m sure you have some favourite writing blogs – please feel free to list them here as comments also, so that I become aware of them.

And here are some I think should (and will) be nominated this year (in no particular order) -

1. Nick Daw’s blog – My Writing Blog
2. Leo  Babuata’s Write to Done (he’s better known for his Zen to Done productivity blog)
3. Brian Clark’s Copyblogger.com
4. Diary of a Wordsmith – an English blogger who’s been getting quite a bit of media attention lately.
5. Becca’s Write on Wednesday – very insightful blogs, with a great community supporting and commenting on these.
6. Debbie Ridpath Ohi’s Inkygirl blog, where she also puts up her fantastic Will Write for Chocolate comic strips.
7. Holly Lisle’s blog, Pocket Full of Words

And here, my writing friend (and fellow kiwi), Kerryn Angell, has posted on her own blog a list of nine other writing blogs I’ve never even heard about, but will definately be checking out.

LINK : To nominate for Top 10 Blogs for Writers, nominate your favourite writing blog here.

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