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A week late, but you don’t care! Here’s episode 104 of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, the podcast about making stuff (mostly writing), finding success as we each define it for ourselves, and staying healthy and sane in the process! This is a solo episode in which I share how I’m using Obsidian, a knowledge management application, as a replacement for both Scrivener and story bible / worldbuilding software as I conceive and write my next novel, Shadow of the Outsider. This episode was recorded on July 10, 2024. Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode Scrivener is arguably the most popular software for writers, with yWriter being a free and lightweight alternative. Obsidian is a free, cross-platform knowledge management application with tremendous flexibility balanced with broad compatibility and underlying simplicity. Other knowledge management applications include Notion, Microsoft OneNote, or Tana, but there are many others. It’s a rapidly growing niche. The people behind Obsidian previously created Dynalist, which I’ve talked about before. It’s a simple but flexible outlining and list making tool.  Obsidian uses plain text markdown files for maximum compatibility and future-proofing, but you don’t need to learn it to use it in Obsidian! SyncThing, with the companion tool SyncTrayzor, is an excellent free tool for syncing files across devices. Pandoc is a universal document converter that, through the use of a plugin, integrates with Obsidian. Excalidraw is an open-source infinite virtual whiteboard that, through the use of a plugin, integrates with Obsidian. I like to hear typewriter sounds when I’m writing on my computer. I use Mechvibes for that! Let me know if you’re interested in an online course detailing exactly how to install, set up, and use Obsidian just like I’m using it as a writing and storyworld bible application. My latest work of fiction is “Reggie vs Kaiju Storm Dragon Squidbat.” The giveaway of the chapbook edition of “Reggie vs Kaiju Storm Dragon Squidbat” sponsored by J. C. Hutchins has a winner! My day job always has a part to play in what’s news. Perhaps there’s something I can help you with? Big thanks to my Multiversalists patron community, including J. C. Hutchins, Zoë Kohen Ley, Jim Lewinson, Amelia Bowen, Ted Leonhardt, and Charles Anderson! I’m incredibly grateful for the support of my patrons. If Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick brings you joy, become a patron! Every month net earnings from my Multiversalist patron memberships is at least $100, I will donate 10% to 826 National in support of literacy and creative writing advocacy for children. Let’s go! Patron members get the uncut, unedited edition of every episode of Sonitotum. For this episode, that includes sixteen minutes of extra content just for them! This episode has extra content only available for patron members of the Multiversalists community! If you're a patron member at the Bronze level or above, please log in! Click here to learn more about the benefits of membership. This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.

This episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick is chock full of recommendations straight from my writer's toolkit: the software and services I use day in / day out in my creative endeavors and in my work helping other creative writers. Also in the episode: more hints at what's to come for my patron member community, and a bit more on the situational depression that still lingers since the previous episode. Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode Dynalist is my offboard brain, as well as my to-do list keeper and an excellent outliner. Simplicity makes it as complex as you want it to be. First on the list because it's my most valued tool. Notepad++ is a plain text editor on steroids... it's really "double plus good." Scrivener is accepted as the standard writer's outliner, word processor, asset organizer, and formatter... but its "everything and the kitchen sink" nature is exactly why I use it -- and recommend it -- only grudgingly. A free, much lighter, and more focused program is yWriter, which I find almost just right for the way I like to write. Here's an article I wrote about yWriter, especially as it compares to Scrivener. Try them both. Use them both! You may find one or both are just right for you. The free Q10 is my favorite full-screen, distraction-free plain text editor and the one writing tool with which I can most often slip into the coveted flow state. Highly recommended! There are many mind-mapping software options, some free, some not. None of them offer the simplicity and flexibility I find with Mindomo. Do you use a whiteboard? Do you wish you had a whiteboard with functionally infinite space and deep zoom? How about one on any of your devices? How about for free? Check out Excalidraw. Microsoft Word (and its attendant Microsoft Office suite, which apparently is now called Microsoft 365 or some such), is synonymous with word processing (and spreadsheets and so on). Did you know there's a completely free alternative that's also compatible with the offering from Redmond? Check out LibreOffice. You might not ever pay Microsoft a subscription fee again. Speaking of icky software-by-subscription attempted monopolies: When it comes to image creation and manipulation and desktop publishing, the Adobe suite of Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign are the assumed defaults. They can also be expensive..! While there are free alternatives for bitmap image editing and creation, vector image creation, and desktop publishing (GIMP, Inkscape, and Scribus, respectively), in my experience they're not quite ready for prime time. I use a for-pay suite of products that give the Adobe programs a run for their money... and cost far less of your money, too! Check out the Affinity applications Photo, Designer, and Publisher, and cancel your Adobe subscription! I use Affinity Publisher to design the interiors of paperback and hardcover books for myself and for clients. For e-books? While there are a number of "meatgrinder" solutions out there, I prefer the free, open source Sigil to create industry-standard EPUB e-books (suitable for any e-book reader / device / marketplace except Amazon, and capable of perfect conversion to the format(s) Amazon does use). We're in an era when being a writer also means being... a content creator. And that usually means recording, and editing, video. You can get away with the basics using the programs that came with your computer, or even simply using your phone. But when you want to take it up a notch and create professional grade, high definition videos... did you know there's a free tool that will let you do just that? Once again: there's no need to turn to an Adobe subscription or pay hundreds of dollars for a software license. The free version of DaVinci Resolve gives you everything you need... and lots of features and capabilities you might not realize you need to make really good looking videos. My latest non-fiction book is Indie Author Marketing Infrastructure, a distillation of some of what I teach when I coach new writers considering self-publishing. I mention the day job, which is helping authors, podcasters, and other creators bring their creative endeavors to fruition, to market, and to an audience. Can I help you? Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: "How It All Got Started" is my fiction serial set in the 1980s and delivered weekly, for free, to subscribers. Get in on it and start at the beginning! My patron community receives the uncut, unedited version of every episode. For this episode, they're privy to almost fifteen minutes of extra content! Want in on that? Become a patron for at least $5.00 per month (cancel any time) and get a bunch of other perks and special access, too. Around thirty people listen to each new episode of this show during the first week it's released. 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In Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick episode 044, the question is posed: What is your creative worth? Why -- and how -- is your creative work worthy? What do you think when it comes to your own creative worth? Is your definition of creative worth actually creating anxiety, or lifting you up? How does the importance of community figure into it? Also..! For a Limited-Time: All My Books and Music at a HUGE Discount! Big news! You can get up to 80% off my entire digital catalog of e-books, audiobooks, and music -- worth over $100 -- when you pledge to become a Paramount Patron for just $20.00 per month! 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After this special offer ends at noon PDT on August 31, 2022, you'll receive access to my entire commercially released digital catalog to date.  Your patron pledge will automatically renew on the first of every subsequent month, giving you access to all future products (digital and print) and all Paramount tier community benefits for the duration of your active patronage. You may cancel or downgrade your pledge at any time and still keep the twenty digital products and any other digital or tangible product you received / downloaded during your active patronage. Join the Community! Pledge as a Paramount Patron Before August 31, 2022 and Get 20 Digital Products Worth $100! Other Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode The Open Source / Free software movement. The free, open-source WordPress content management system. Dreamhost, my web hosting platform of choice for over sixteen years. Dropbox, a premium cloud-based file hosting and sharing service. NextCloud, the open source, self-hosted alternative to Dropbox. Scrivener, a tool for writers. yWriter, a free alternative to Scrivener. Read my overview, too! Dynalist, an excellent, cross-platform freemium (free or paid levels) outliner and note collection app. Trello, a "kanban"-style project management tool. Trilium Notes, an open-source not-quite outliner and note taking app. My home server is powered by the Zima Board. I have joined TikTok! Follow me there for regular short videos, including the #FirstLinesFridays series. Get free weekly serial fiction delivered via email when you subscribe to Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: "How It All Got Started." Seth Godin is someone you should probably be reading and listening to. 826 National is a non-profit dedicated to creating and supporting young writers. Become my patron and help me reach my goal of donating 10% of my net patron revenue to 826 National every month! 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What is in your writer's toolbox? What do you use to organize your thoughts? How do you self-edit your work? What do you use to keep yourself on task? Kristy Bock will share hers including programs such as: Scrivener, YWriter, Hemingway, Write or Die, and Microsoft Office.  Our mission is to provide a place for authors, publishers, writers, reviewers, and readers of books to showcase their work, provide marketing avenues, as well as provide reviews of published works, and offer educational opportunities for professional development. 

Since I’m working on outlining my next novel, I recently discovered yWriter software. This is a software to organize scenes, chapters, characters, and settings at a glance. Listen to my thoughts. I mention K.M. Weiland and Simon Haynes in this episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/daria-white/message

Earlier in September, 2018, I introduced the Autumn Project (2018). You can read all about it, but in brief: between September and the end of December, 2018, I'm planning, plotting, and completing the first draft of my next novel, Light of the Outsider, in public. It's an exercise in accountability, transparency, beginner's mind, and teaching what I learn. In that spirit, I've promised to share my progress on a regular basis through "minisodes" of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick. This is the second update! Listen to the episode for all the details... meanwhile, here are some significant statistics and other stuff: The Autumn Project (2018): September 16 through September 26, 2018 This ten-day period was all about wrapping up the character background notes, then "breaking" the novel, and then finally preparing all that material for the day when I begin writing actual manuscript pages of the first draft... which began on September 27, 2018... so that stuff, we'll talk about in the next update! Days Worked: Nine (Fifteen total) Total Time Worked: 16 hours, 42 minutes (31 hours 24 minutes) Words Written: 9620, not including the timeline, which was adapted from the prose background material (21,624 words total) Approximately 1069 words per day / 593 words per hour What Do I Mean by "Breaking" the Story? This is a term borrowed from screenwriting and from television series writer rooms. It's not the same as when a journalist "breaks a story" -- that's when a reporter is the first to report on something. In this context, to break a story means to break the sequence of events down to individual "beats," or scenes, and put them in order according to their place in the arc of the larger tale and each character's arc. Typically, there are three acts (or four, if you count the first and second half of the second act as two acts) in a longer work, with several scenes per act. In the episode, I talk about how my last novel, Pilgrimage, stayed very close to the traditional three act structure, and how Light of the Outsider, while still broken into three acts, doesn't necessarily follow all the usual rules. Lessons Learned The value of writing all those words in character background (see the last update) really proved valuable again and again during the plotting / breaking phase as new connections popped up in my mind. I was reminded of something the author Maggie Bonham (and maybe others have) said: "Outlining is where brainstorming happens." That's because brainstorming is almost always more fruitful if it's done within some kind of structure... like, for instance, three well-defined acts..! Also, I had an important epiphany involving a key (as in, what you use to open a lock) that eliminated one of the more hand-waving story points early in the first act.  This was an intuitive thing that, nonetheless, has evaded me for a very, very long time when it comes to this novel. Tools and Resources In the episode, I mentioned the software that's gone into the pre-draft, planning / plotting stage.  Here they are, with links; Workflowy. I use this list maker / outliner so much, it's probably my primary tool in my life, not just in writing, and not just in writing Light of the Outsider.  I used Workflowy while writing the character background bits. Here's a blog post I wrote all about how you can use Workflowy in your writing projects. OpenOffice Calc, the free spreadsheet component of the free office suite. I used it briefly while working out the timeline of the characters' lives right up to the moment the novel begins.  I reckon I'll be returning to it to keep timelines and continuity straight as I write the first draft, too. Gingko App. Similar to Workflowy, but designed more specifically for writing long form documents. I broke the story in Gingko. It's neat. yWriter. In many ways, especially how it doesn't try to be all things to all people like Scrivener does, I prefer yWriter for organizing, keeping track of, and actually writing my novels and short stories. It also doesn't hurt that it's free. Read my full review of yWriter. Watch as I Write Light of the Outsider! Remember, you can support the Autumn Project (2018), the Sonitotum podcast, and watch the live video feed of every writing session for Light of the Outsider when you become my patron for just $3.00 per month. Every session lets you see exactly what I'm seeing on my computer monitor while I work, so you can literally see every spoiler-filled detail and behind the scenes moment as I write this book. Pledge just $5.00 per month and you'll get all the benefits of the $3.00 pledge plus the ability to watch the writing session videos any time you want via the archive library, plus more patron-only benefits! Making the Episode Every episode of Sonitotum takes considerable time to record, edit, and produce, including writing these show notes and creating the graphics and social media assets. Equipment and Software For those who are interested (folks sometimes ask), here's what I used (and use) to make this episode. I have affiliate arrangements with some of these products and services. If you make a purchase when you click through using my links, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. It's a great way to help support the podcast... so thank you! Aurycle a460 large diaphragm studio condenser microphone Akai Professional MPD218 (MIDI drum pad controller for performing drum parts of "Anastasia") Behringer U-Phoria UMC202HD (audio interface for directly connecting microphones and musical instruments to a computer) Sennheiser HD 202 headphones Mixcraft 8 Pro Studio (digital audio workstation / music creation software -- used when recording and producing "Anastasia" and "Gwinton") Adobe Audition CC (digital audio workstation for recording, editing, and producing audio -- used to record, edit, mix and produce the podcast) Zencast.fm (podcast media file hosting and distribution service) Stay Tuned For More Weekly Minisodes, Plus Regular Full-Length Episodes! I'll continue to stay accountable throughout the rest of 2018 with these quick weekly minisodes updating my progress on Light of the Outsider. Stay tuned for more full-length episodes of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, too, including upcoming shows on the the necessity of responsible self-promotion, and more! I've got thoughts I want to think at you! Don't forget to subscribe to Sonitotum wherever and however you get your podcasts, and if you have a moment, please rate and review the show in your podcast app, too! Thanks!

Quantité d’outils informatiques promettent de faciliter ou d’accélérer la création littéraire. Qu’en est-il vraiment ? L’investissement vaut-il la peine, et le cas échéant, quelles qualités faut-il rechercher dans un tel logiciel ? En quoi l’informatique a-t-elle changé le rapport au texte et à sa création ? Repentirs : en raison du format, nous sommes passés rapidement sur quelques points et de petits compléments ou précisions s’imposent a posteriori : - Entre LibreOffice et OpenOffice, il vaut mieux préférer le premier, plus régulièrement mis à jour et donc plus avancé ; - Word dispose d’une version mobile utilisable sur tablettes et téléphone, mais nécessite un abonnement Office 365 ; - Depuis l’enregistrement de cet épisode, la version iOS de Scrivener est disponible. Vous pouvez commenter sur le forum d'Elbakin.net : http://www.elbakin.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=8813 Logiciels cités (sites éditeur) : - Microsoft Word https://products.office.com/fr-fr/word - LibreOffice https://fr.libreoffice.org - OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org - Ulysses https://ulyssesapp.com - Evernote https://evernote.com/intl/fr/ - Scrivener https://www.literatureandlatte.com (articles détaillés et astuces sur http://lioneldavoust.com/item/scrivener/ ) - yWriter http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5.html - Writer’s Café http://www.writerscafe.co.uk - Liquid Story Binder XE http://www.blackobelisksoftware.com - Final Draft http://www.finaldraft.com

Today we had a debate about the merits of Scrivener vs yWriter, reviewed Liberty Speidel’s The Darby Shaw Chronicles: Emergence, and addressed the chaos of current events. You can read R.F.’s full review of Emergence on his website.

YWRITER. SOFTWARE PARA ESCRIBIR NOVELAS

If you're thinking about writing a novel, you want YWriter and it's free! Opera's latest version, now available in beta, brings some new features you'll like. The well regarded Registry Mechanic drops a wrench into my Registry. In Short Circuits, Google's operating system, the price of storage, and the case of the disappearing disk drive.