Questioner's Shadow, Writing

Questioner’s Shadow Soundtrack

Sometimes when I write, I listen to music. Other times, I turn it off. I’ve never really been a playlist creator, generally listening to whatever I feel like at the time.

However, on Questioner’s Shadow, I decided to make a playlist. It contains a couple unsigned bands (Whitcomb and Iron Thrones). The Whitcomb album can be found on Amazon (like the rest). I don’t know about the Iron Thrones albums, so I linked to them. Here’s the list (not in any particular order), band first, and then album(s).

Hurt – Goodbye To The Machine, The Re-Consumation, Vol. 1, Vol II
Opeth – Black Water Park, Damnation, Deliverance, Ghost Reveries, My Arms Your Hearse, Watershed
Iron Thrones – Visions of Light, The Wretched Sun
Dream Theater – Systematic Chaos
Katatonia – Viva Emptiness
Whitcomb – Crown Park
The Sword – Age of Winters, Gods of the Earth, Warp Riders
Mushroomhead – XIII, XX
Fair To Midland – Fables From A Mayfly
Mastadon – Crack The Skye

Software, StoryBox

StoryBox 1.3.107 Released

While adding a completely silly feature (background images for full screen mode), I came across an annoying bug that wouldn’t let you see the menu in full screen mode more than once.

So, fixed the bug, added the silly feature, fixed a couple other theme related issues, and here you are. A new release only one day later with two… TWO new features (you can also align the text area left, center, and right in full screen mode, now).

http://www.storyboxsoftware.com/download.htm

Software, StoryBox

StoryBox 1.3.106 Released (The Birthday Version!)

Here’s the latest update. It fixes quite a few things and adds shortcut keys for typographer quotes (smart quotes) that, if you need them, will help you put the right quote in the right spot. The current best algorithm for SmartQuotes has two flaws (Microsoft Word has them, too) in that it will not get a leading apostrophe correct, nor will it get the left single quote correct if it follows a double quote. ( “‘ )

Use the shortcut key’s to work around those two problems. They will not be replaced on export, so they will always be the right ones. If you do not plan to export with typographer quotes (if you are planning on sending your work to a publisher, for instance) don’t use them.

Also, don’t forget the coupon code for this weekend that will let you have 30% off your purchase!

http://www.storyboxsoftware.com/download.htm

Shattered, Writing

Today I Worked On: AWW Book Two!

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Or, more accurately, a “proposal” for A Wizard’s Work Book Two. What? A proposal?

One of the things I enjoyed about the Marketing Workshop I went to at the end of March was how writing a proposal forced me to consider the whole story. While I don’t need to write proposals for my books, the exercise of writing it allows me to think through the whole thing, and perhaps find a theme, characters, setting, and the major plot points before writing the story.

A proposal will also help me decide if that particular version of the story is worth writing, or if I should “try again” and see what comes out. During the workshop, on a couple days, we had to write different versions of the same proposal. This ended up showing to me the opportunities for creating multiple stories out of the same idea, allowing me to choose the best one to spend months of effort on.

I don’t know if this particular proposal will be the basis of the book, but I’m already sure writing it was a useful exercise.