Read Like A Writer

There are two ways to learn how to write fiction: by reading it and by writing it. Yes, you can learn lots about writing stories in workshops, in writing classes and writing groups, at writers' conferences. You can learn technique and process by reading the dozens of books like this one on fiction writing and by reading articles in writers' magazines. But the best teachers of fiction are the great works of fiction themselves. You can learn more about the structure of a short story by reading Anton Chekhov's 'Heartache' than you can in a semester of Creative Writing 101. If you read like a writer, that is, which means you have to read everything twice, at least. When you read a story or novel the first time, just let it happen. Enjoy the journey. When you've finished, you know where the story took you, and now you can go back and reread, and this time notice how the writer reached that destination. Notice the choices he made at each chapter, each sentence, each word. (Every word is a choice.) You see now how the transitions work, how a character gets across a room. All this time you're learning. You loved the central character in the story, and now you can see how the writer presented the character and rendered her worthy of your love and attention. The first reading is creative—you collaborate with the writer in making the story. The second reading is critical.


John Dufresne, from his book, The Lie That Tells A Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction

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Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Liquid Story Binder XE by Black Obelisk Software

Liquid Story Binder XE by Black Obelisk Software

Liquid Story Binder XE by Black Obelisk Software

 

Aspiring and accomplished writers alike know that disorganized thoughts can be a maddening hindrance to creativity. Especially when all of those disorganized thoughts are spread across a maelstrom of notebooks, Word files, post-it's, emails, magazine margins, storyboard sketches, and whatever else. 

Liquid Story Binder is designed for authors, poets, writers, novelists, anyone writing a book or anything at all really! No matter what your ability level, Liquid Story Binder is the ideal program for writing, and will provide you with all the tools you need to create, outline, organize, timeline, revise, storyboard, conceive, diagram, and format your work.

It even includes a built-in audio recorder in case you want to listen to the pacing and phrasing of a particular section, paragraph, or sentence!

Liquid Story Binder is completely customizable. Choose a color scheme that suits you, save window positions and open files, create workspaces, open dozens of windows simultaneously or just a simple textbox centered in the screen... it's up to you, your comfort zone, and your writing style!

Can't remember where you wrote that important paragraph? A Universal Search feature makes finding it a snap. Search every Chapter, Note, Builder, Timeline, Storyboard, Outline, Dossier, Sequence and Backup for a single lost word or phrase. Plus, the Repetition Visualizer helps you to find and weed out repetitive words and phrases, at-a-glance!

Extremely adaptable, Liquid Story Binder utilizes common TXT, RTF, and ZIP file formats, guaranteeing future access. It can be stored and executed off of a portable USB drive, and automatically creates an easy-to-access backup file with an entry for each day's changes. Liquid Story Binder is the ultimate software for writing.

Liquid Story Binder XE by Black Obelisk Shareware Dossiers

Create Dossiers for major characters and settings.

Timelines

Plot your novel by organizing cards along colored timelines.

Storyboards

Combine images and text to create a visual reference board.

Journals

Create a writing journal, or even fictional journals for each one of your characters.

Outlines

Create a collapsible tree of plot ideas.

Mindmaps

Link ideas together using lines and text.

Image Galleries

Organize your reference images into galleries.

Checklists

A list of titles and captions with checkmarks.

Contrasts

A two-columned list for direct comparisons.

Builders

Organize complex scenes using titles, descriptions, and color indexing.

Position Memory

Liquid Story Binder XE remembers just where you left off.

Manuscript Building

Combine multiple chapters into a single manuscript automatically.

Printing

Preserve your font and paragraph editing with Format Printing.

Workspaces

Preserve your favorite window layouts for quick access.

Project Goals

Words per day, words left to write, days remaining, multi-document word counts.

Color Schemes

Create the perfect writing environment with your favorite window colors.

Recordings

Record yourself reading your own novel. Test for pacing and time.

File Listings

Organize all your files into easy-access file trees.

Backups

Every Chapter has its own backup repository. Never lose a single word with automatic version and session backups. Compress your whole archive into a single ZIP file.

Shortcuts

Quickly access your favorite external software and documents.

Statistics

Times, Word Counts, Goals, Sessions, Versions, Days.

Reader

Read over your work in a easy to view columned window, free of editing distractions.

Music Playlists

Add your MP3s and sort them into playlists. Set the mood for writing.

External Editing

Open your work outside of Liquid Story Binder.

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Liquid Story Binder XE by Black Obelisk Software
Word Processing, Outlining, Organizing.

A Portable Text Editor that Keeps You Organized
Liquid Story Binder XE is a uniquely designed word processor for professional and aspiring authors, poets, and novelists. Writing software for those who require the editing ability of a commercial text editor as well as a document tracking system. It is for those who want the freedom to create, outline and revise but are tired of losing track of their work

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Word Processing for Novelists

Liquid Story Binder XE is specifically designed for fiction writing. XE includes all the standard features such as spell-checking, thesaurus, smart quotes, templates, font and paragraph styles -- everything you need to write your next great novel.

Chapter and Scene Based Writing
Liquid Story Binder XE can clean and combine many small documents into a single, font-unified manuscript. Use a Chapter Builder to quickly arrange complex scenes.

A Multimedia Organizer

Sort pictures into Galleries or Storyboards, quickly access custom MP3 playlists, even record yourself reading your latest chapter using a microphone.

Pick and Choose Flexible Features

Pick and choose the file types that work best for you. Liquid Story Binder never tells you how to write! Flexible file types allow you to use your imagination. Use a Dossier for characters, places or things, or a Builder to preserve important snippets.

Organize Your Novel

Create a Binder folder and let Liquid Story Binder sort, search and combine your documents.

Create the Perfect Working Environment

Choose a color scheme that suits your writing style. Save window positions and open files for quick and easy access using Workspaces. Open dozens of windows simultaneously - or just a simple textbox centered in the screen.

Full Screen Editing

Even though Liquid Story Binder is packed with features, sometimes less is more. Liquid Story Binder XE offers full screen editing, a feature that removes all distractions including menus and title bars.

A Typewriter for your PC

The Liquid Story Binder Typewriter is the ultimate tool for distraction-free writing. Like a mechanical typewriter, users are prevented from editing previously written text. There are no specific formatting options, no scrolling, deleting, or revisions. The Typewriter tool doesn’t even allow you to use the backspace key. It forces you to write, to move forward, to add new words. It halts the temptation to linger, revise, and correct. Turn Liquid Story Binder into a typewriter for your PC.

Advanced Outlining Tools

Timelines, Outlines, Mindmaps, Dossiers, Sequences and Storyboards. Liquid Story Binder XE provides the tools you need to plan your next great novel.

Mindmapping

Liquid Story Binder XE Mindmaps allow you to visually link ideas together using lines and text. A mindmap is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Unlike many mindmapping applications, Liquid Story Binder XE does not use a rigid or pre-designed structure. Users can place items however they choose. Create item colonies, isolated from one another. Index items by color. Change item connections quickly and easily. Try using Mindmaps to create and organize family trees.

Journals

Liquid Story Binder XE allows you to create multiple Journals. Start a daily writing journal, or go back into the past to tell the story of a fictional character. Combine your Journal entries into a single manuscript.

Protect Your Work

For every Chapter, Liquid Story Binder XE creates a single, easy-to-access backup file. This backup file contains an entry for each day's changes. Liquid Story Binder XE also includes a complete Binder backup using ZIP compression.

Black Obelisk Software recommends Dropbox for all your online backup and synchronization needs.

Take Liquid Story Binder With You

Liquid Story Binder can be installed on a flash card or USB drive. Take your writing wherever you need to go. Use XE on a friend's computer, at school, or at work.

WordWeb Integration

Liquid Story Binder integrates with WordWeb. WordWeb is a quick and powerful international English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows. It can be used to look up words from almost any Windows program, showing definitions, synonyms and related words. There are also many proper nouns and usage examples.

Universal Search

Liquid Story Binder XE can search every Chapter, Note, Builder, Timeline, Storyboard, Outline, Dossier, Sequence and Backup for a single lost word or phrase. Can't remember where you wrote that important paragraph? Just use XE's Universal Search.

Repetition Visualizer Liquid Story Binder XE's Repetition Visualizer allows you to find, at-a-glance, repetitive words and phrases.

Simple File Formats

Liquid Story Binder XE uses basic TXT, RTF, and ZIP file formats guaranteeing future access no matter what software you use. Many Features in a Very Small Download The Liquid Story Binder XE installation package is only 7MB in size! Windows 10 Compatible

Liquid Story Binder is Windows 10 compatible. Liquid Story Binder XE is also compatible with Windows 8, 7, Windows XP and Vista.

30 Day Free Trial Without Any Feature Limitations
Download Liquid Story Binder XE and test out it features before buying. The download includes the entire XE package without limitations. If you love what you see, return to our website a buy a special licensing code that will allow you to use Liquid Story Binder indefinitely. After that, all future upgrades and updates are absolutely free!

 

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BLACK OBELISK SOFTWARE PRESENTS: LIQUID STORY BINDER
 

SOFTWARE FOR WRITERS, SOFTWARE FOR AUTHORS, SOFTWARE FOR NOVELISTS, SOFTWARE FOR POETS, A WORD PROCESSOR FOR WRITERS, A WORD PROCESSOR FOR NOVELISTS, A WORD PROCESSOR FOR POETS
CREATIVE WRITING SOFTWARE, A TEXT EDITOR FOR WRITERS
 

WRITING, WORD PROCESSING, STORYBOARDS, MANUSCRIPTS, MANUSCRIPT PRINTING, PLOT OUTLINES, CHAPTER OUTLINES, REFERENCE NOTES, TEMPLATES, CREATIVE WRITING, DOCUMENT CLEANING, TEXT CLEANING