True Novelist - Write Your Novel Scrivener, un outil d'écriture créative - La boîte à outils des historien·ne·s par Caroline Muller * J’ai découvert il y a quelques mois le logiciel d’écriture Scrivener. C’est un outil d’aide à l’écriture qui a d’abord été conçu pour l’écriture « littéraire » : scénarios, ouvrages de fiction, essais, etc. Pourtant, il serait plus juste de le qualifier de logiciel d’écriture « créative » puisqu’il est mobilisable dans bien d’autres contextes… dont l’ écriture universitaire. Pourquoi utiliser Scrivener pour rédiger un manuscrit universitaire ? Son atout principal réside pour moi dans la possibilité de gérer des informations multiples sur un même écran de façon fluide et rapide. Tout à gauche, la première colonne « classeur » contient mon plan, ce qui me permet d’avoir toujours une idée d’ensemble de ma thèse même quand j’écris une toute petite partie. Faciliter la création Scrivener n’est pas seulement un outil technique : il facilite aussi la réflexion. Révisions et commentaires Quid des autres relecteurs ? Une aide à l’organisation du processus d’écriture Et ensuite ?
Les alternatives - Stop Amazon Il est urgent de se libérer de l’emprise néfaste de multinationales comme Amazon. Car si nous pouvons changer nos modes de consommation, nous devons aussi les affronter collectivement afin de provoquer un changement bien plus profond. Mais voici tout de même une liste non exhaustive d’alternatives concrètes pour toutes celles et ceux qui souhaitent se libérer d’Amazon. La première des alternatives, c’est de réduire notre consommation et de refuser de céder à la fièvre de la consommation. Son pendant, c’est de promouvoir le développement d’une économie locale créatrice d’emploi, génératrice de lien social tout en étant compatible avec les impératifs climatiques. Commencez par vous poser les bonnes questions Pourquoi faut-il se libérer d’Amazon ? Sites et initiatives généralistes Le site covid-entraide.fr, un réseau de solidarité pour relier les groupes d’entraide locaux et s’auto-organiser face à la pandémie Le Mouvement équitable qui regroupe de nombreux acteurs du commerce équitable. Livres
100 Best Writing Websites: 2017 Edition What do you picture when you imagine yourself writing? Are you quietly tapping away on your office desktop computer in the early morning hours? Maybe you’re scribbling new ideas and observations amidst the hustle and bustle of a coffee shop. It’s likely that you imagined yourself alone. But here’s the thing about great writing: it takes a village. They may be your words, but the words you write are a culmination of years of practice, learning from mentors, emulating your favorite authors, workshopping with peers and supporting fellow writers. Each year, The Write Life celebrates this “village” by releasing a list of the 100 Best Websites for Writers, and we’re excited to do so again this year. Thanks to your suggestions, you’ve helped us curate hundreds of websites to bring you the best of the best. Many are tried-and-true favorites previously featured in our 2014, 2015, and 2016 lists, and this year we’re thrilled to feature more than 50 newcomers. 1. Post you’ll like: The Batman vs. 2. 3.
Home | TyranoBuilder Storyboard That Graphviz I Wrote a Novel Entirely in Evernote. Here's How. Over the past few months, we’ve highlighted some of the unique ways Evernote employees use the software they build and support—from capturing sketches to digital scrapbooking. In honor of National Novel Writing Month (a.k.a. NaNoWriMo), the head of our marketing content team shares his method for crafting a novel entirely in Evernote. Like many writers, I used to view Evernote as just one component of a larger writing system. As I grew more comfortable with Evernote over the years, I noticed I was using it to record an ever-expanding range of personal thoughts and work projects. When I no longer had to mentally switch gears to manage two different interfaces and sets of commands, my writing output accelerated. The author at NaNoWriMo’s 2014 Night of Writing Dangerously. After trying this system out on a couple of novelettes, I had it refined enough to think bigger. The set-up: from notebooks to tags Step 1. For a novel-length project, set up a notebook exclusively for that novel.
permissions - How to fix external hard disk READ ONLY? The Sum of the Parts: Writing a Synopsis By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy This week's Refresher Friday takes another look at something many of us might be doing this month--writing a synopsis. Aside from queries--and maybe electronic hotel card keys--few things are as frustrating as writing a synopsis. Condensing an entire novel to just a few pages means some things are going to be minimized or even excluded. Here Are the Basics A synopsis is written in third person present tense, even if the novel is not. Just like in the novel itself, you want to show your story and make it active, but a certain amount of telling is going to happen just due to the nature of synopses. You also want to convey a sense of building doom and escalating trouble, and encourage readers to wonder what happens next. There are usually a half dozen or so major moments in a novel--the set pieces. (Here's more on how to write a scintillating synopsis) The Opening Scene In the book: The opening scene is, of course, the way the book opens. The Inciting Event Climax
Reshot | Free icons, illustrations & photos [no attribution] ADRIFT: Create your own Interactive Fiction What is Interactive Fiction? Interactive Fiction (formerly referred to as Text Adventures) are a cross between reading a book and playing a game, where you control the main character. Rather than reading the story from start to finish, you interact with everything by typing commands at a prompt, discovering things as you go along. Well written games give you, the player, the impression that anything you type is understood by giving a sensible and meaningful response. Most interactive fiction follows the same basic rules - these include walking from location to location using compass directions (north, east, south-west etc). How do you create Interactive Fiction games? There are several different systems for creating interactive fiction. ADRIFT is different by being a completely GUI driven application, designed to be intuitive and easy to use. ADRIFT has a separate editor for each item you want to add to your game. About ADRIFT Developer ADRIFT 5 Developer is free. About ADRIFT Runner