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Friday, March 31, 2023

Liquid Story Binder Writer's Word | Writer’s Tools

Liquid Story Binder Writer's Word Processor

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.⁸

 

 

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 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.

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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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

ProWritingAid's FREE Crime Writers' Week Webinar, April 24 - 29 2023

 

Crime Writers" Week

 

Do you want to write a thrilling crime novel?

Join Crime Writers' Week to learn how to craft an unforgettable crime story and share it with the world.

Learn from award-winning authors + educators in live sessions.

Discover strategies outlining, editing, publishing, marketing and more.

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Speakers

Stay tuned! More speakers added every week.

Janice Hallett
Janice Hallett

Bestselling Author



Sophie Hannah

Bestselling Crime Author


Martin Edwards

Award Winning Crime Author



Ajay Chowdhury

Award Winning Crime Author



Samantha Skal

Thriller Author and Book Coach



Angela M. Saunders

Author



Anna Mazzola

Author and Writing Coach


Amanda Reynolds

Author and Writing Coach



Vaseem Khan

Award-Winning Author


Abigail Perry

Book Coach and Editor



Lin Anderson

Novelist and Screenwriter



P D Viner

Best-Selling Author



Creag Munroe

Founder of Elegant Literature
 
 
 

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Friday, January 13, 2023

2022-2023 Winter Short Story Award for New Writers - Judged by Morgan Talty | $3000 Prize!

ABOUT Short Story Award For New Writers

The Masters Review’s Short Story Award for New Writers

Submissions Open Until January 31!
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Winter is coming! The Masters Review’s Short Story Award for New Writers is a bi-annual contest that recognizes the best fiction from today’s emerging writers. Judging 2022-2023’s winter contest is Morgan Talty, author the story collection Night of the Living Rez. Winners and honorable mentions receive agency review from five agencies as well as publication. The winning story earns $3000, while the second and third place runners up receive $300 and $200, respectively. Participating agents include: Nat Sobel from Sobel Weber, Victoria Cappello from The Bent Agency, Andrea Morrison from Writers House, Sarah Fuentes from Fletcher & Company, and Heather Schroder from Compass Talent. Our mission from day one has been to support emerging writers. We want you to succeed. We want your words to be read.

Guidelines:

  • Winner receives $3000, publication, and agency review
  • Second and third place prizes ($300 / $200, publication, and agency review)
  • Stories under 6000 words
  • Previously unpublished stories only
  • Simultaneous and multiple submissions allowed
  • Emerging writers only; writers with book-length work published or under contract with a major press are ineligible. (We are interested in offering a larger platform to new writers. Authors with short story collections are free to submit new, unpublished work, as are writers with books published by indie presses or self-published.)
  • International English submissions allowed. No translations.
  • Double-spaced, 12 pt easy-to-read font (i.e., Times New Roman, Garamond, etc.) please!
  • $20 entry fee
  • Deadline: January 31, 2023
  • All stories are considered for publication
  • All submissions will receive a response by the end of April
  • Winners will be announced by the end of May
  • Friends, family and associates of the final judge are not eligible for this award. Consider submitting to the Summer contest!
  • A significant portion of the editorial letter fees go to our feedback editor, according to the rates established by the EFA

We don’t have any preferences topically or in terms of style. We’re simply looking for the best. We don’t define, nor are we interested in, stories identified by their genre. We do, however, consider ourselves a publication that focuses on literary fiction. Dazzle us, take chances, and be bold.

JUDGING

Morgan Talty is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation where he grew up. He is the author of the critically acclaimed story collection Night of the Living Rez from Tin House Books, which won the New England Book Award, was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers, and is a finalist for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. His writing has appeared in Granta, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, Narrative Magazine, LitHub, and elsewhere. A winner of the 2021 Narrative Prize, Talty’s work has been supported by the Elizabeth George Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts (2022). Talty is an Assistant Professor of English in Creative Writing and Native American and contemporary Literature at the University of Maine, Orono, and he is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA in creative writing as well as the Institute of American Indian Arts. Talty is also a Prose Editor at The Massachusetts Review. He lives in Levant, Maine.

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Monday, December 5, 2022

Writing Tips: A Creative and Practical Guide to Improving Your Story (The Creative Writer’s Toolkit Book 1), by Merrie Destefano

Writing Tips: A Creative and Practical Guide to Improving Your Story (The Creative Writer’s Toolkit Book 1), Merrie Destefano

 Writing Tips: A Creative and Practical Guide to Improving Your Story (The Creative Writer’s Toolkit Book 1),

by Merrie Destefano

 

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 Writing a book can feel overwhelming—especially if your genre is fantasy, science fiction, or horror. It’s almost like going on a quest. You have to create cities and villages, populate them with unique creatures, and figure out how to save the world—all while making sure your main character finds true love.

Hard, yes.

Impossible, no.

If it were impossible, literature wouldn’t exist.

This book can help you accomplish your writing goals and kick discouragement to the curb, where it belongs. It can also inspire you to write the best story possible, while creating believable characters and well-developed worlds at the same time.

You’ll discover:

• How organic writing can make your fantasy, science fiction, or horror seem more real.

• How to use the author’s secret world-building tips.

• How to create well-developed worlds by making one change in your writing.

• How you can improve your story premise by asking “What If.”

• Why adding an adrenaline rush to your story can both entice and satisfy readers.

• How genre-blending can strengthen your story and plot.

• How to hit tropes by first hitting your genre.

Discover how you can create the book of your dreams by making a few simple changes to your manuscript.

Multiple-award-winning author, Merrie Destefano, spent sixteen years in the publishing industry as a book and magazine editor, working for The Word For Today, Walter Foster Publishing, APG-Media, and Engaged Media. Her novels have been published by HarperCollins, Entangled Teen, and Ruby Slippers Press, and her books have won awards in both the science fiction and fantasy categories.

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About the Author 

Merrie Destefano
USA Today Bestselling and Multiple Award-Winning author, Merrie Destefano writes lyrical tales of magic, mystery, and hope. She studied art at Northern Illinois University, met her husband at a kazoo parade, rides her bike almost every day, and ugly cries during corny movies.

Her books have been published by HarperCollins, Entangled Teen, Walter Foster, and Ruby Slippers Press, and, most likely, she's writing her next book while you're reading this. She has worked for Focus on the Family, The Word For Today, Engaged Media, and PJS Publications, and her magazine work includes editor of Victorian Homes magazine, Zombies magazine, Haunted: Mysteries And Legends magazine, American Farmhouse Style magazine, Vintage Gardens magazine and founding editor of Cottages & Bungalows magazine. Her co-authored art books include How To Draw Vampires, How To Draw Zombies, and How to Draw Grimm's Dark Fairy Tales.

Born in the Midwest she now lives in Southern California, where she runs on caffeine, and shares her home with rescue dogs and cats. And although she dearly loves science fiction, in her heart of hearts, she still doesn't believe airplanes should be able to fly.

Her writing awards include:

• USA Today Bestselling Author: December 19, 2021

• Realm Award Finalist, Audiobook, Shade: Book 1: 2021 Realm Makers Awards

• Realm Award Winner, Paranormal/Horror, Shade: The Complete Trilogy, 2019 Realm Makers Awards

• Silver Medal Winner, YA Horror/Mystery, Shade: The Complete Trilogy, 2019 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards

• Second Place Winner, YA/NA Speculative Fiction, Valiant, 2019 YARWA Athena Awards

• Writer Of The Year, Merrie Destefano, 2010 Mount Hermon Writer’s Conference

To learn more, please visit her website: www.merriedestefano.com.

Merrie Destefano Books at Amazon

Sunday, December 4, 2022

The Anatomy of Genres: How Story Forms Explain the Way the World Works by John Truby | Writing Book of the Day

The Anatomy of Genres: How Story Forms Explain the Way the World Works

is finally in stores and I couldn’t be more excited about it. 

 

Genres have more to do with how your story works than any other element — any other idea, plot device, character archetype, beat sheet, methodology, or prescribed structure — by far.

 

Whether you're writing for movies, TV, or novels, the game is won or lost in genres.

 

This book tells you exactly how to write the 14 major genres from which 99% of stories are made. 

 

They are: Horror, Action, Myth, Memoir and Coming-of-Age, Science Fiction, Crime, Comedy, Western, Gangster, Fantasy, Detective, Thriller, and Love Story.  

 

The first half of each chapter tells you how to execute the 15-20 specialized genre plot beats that must be in your story if you are to compete successfully with everyone else writing in your form. 

 

The second half tells you how to transcend your form and really separate yourself from the crowd by expressing the deep life philosophy found in that genre’s theme

 

Here’s what advanced readers are saying:

 

“Essential storytelling guidance... we're given the tools and techniques to make certain that our own specific stories can include the depth and beats necessary to illuminate advanced themes and complex plot in the most effective (but not formulaic) ways.” Christine Toy Johnson

 

“During my first pass, I stopped several times to capture thoughts and notes for my current work. This is perhaps the highest compliment I can offer - when a book prompts you to act immediately, the author has achieved something remarkable.” Michael Maloof

 

Get your copy of The Anatomy of Genres: How Story Forms Explain the Way the World Works

 

 

About the Author 

John Truby
John Truby (born 1952) is an American screenwriter, director, screenwriting teacher and author. He has served as a consultant on over 1,000 film scripts over the past three decades, and is also known for the screenwriting software program Blockbuster (originally "Storyline Pro"). He is the author of Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller, a book about screenwriting skills. Wikipedia