Juiced On Writing

Mindsweeping and Weekly Reviews

The Mindjet Blog has just featured an excellent post by Michael Deutch, in which he shows us how he’s developed two mindmapping organisation maps based on David Allen’s Getting Things Done. Michael’s two mindmaps, which he shares in MindManager format, are called - Mind Sweep – a mindmap designed to basically brain-dump everything going through [...]

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2009 Goals Planned in a Dashboard Mind Map

Today I spent a fruitful day planning out all my writing and other resolutions into some 2009 goals and objectives, and setting them into a series of mindmaps. Together they make up a Life Dashboard MindMap. For 2009 I have several personal goals, some large family tasks (such as adopting another child into the family), [...]

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New Levels of MindMapping Writeability

I’ve recently provided some articles on how I am currently using Mindjet MindManager Pro 7 for my writing project. However, MindManager has just had an upgrade to Version 8, with a whole swathe of new functionality which looks interesting from a writer’s viewpoint.

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Stage 3 of Preparing for a Novel – MindMapping and Ready-to-Go

Now that I have completed my initial Mindmaps and outline using Scenes within the Writer’s Block software, I have today returned to working with MindMaps and setting up more in readiness for the novel writing to commence. Here is some of my work of today, with some description. I have created several new mindmaps, including [...]

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Stage 2 of Preparing for a Novel

This is the follow-up to my own MindMapping to Prepare for a Novel article posted a week ago.  In that article I introduced you to my concept (with The Sentence) for my NaNoWriMo novel, The Pod Novel II (a working title only) and to some work I did in initiating some ideas using a mindmap [...]

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MindMapping to Prepare for a Novel

Having come up with an initial idea for a potential novel for my NaNoWriMo efforts, for the last few weeks I’ve sat floundered, unable to find the motivation to delve into the novel and develop it in preparation for the actual writing effort. Last night I turned to a tool which helped me refind the [...]

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