Important Update about Idea Mason

The following was submitted to the blog as a comment to an earlier post about Idea Mason, but it is so important that I’m adding it as a current post so that everyone can easily find it.  For background, read my review of Ides Mason.  Thanks, Sue, for bringing this to my attention.

As someone who is a Doctorate student Idea Mason is very focused on academic writing and quite helpful for the scholar who needs to build their dissertation or manual. For example, I have been using this application for the past six months and it has given me a better appreciation of what post-graduate students experience when building these sort of documents. I was intimidated with it at first but once I started getting a better feel for how it worked I learned there were things I was able to do that I could not do with freeware or some of the commercial brands and that to me was priceless.

My time is very limited however this is an issue that I would like to keep open as I feel more persons need to be aware of it. I just discovered that Idea Mason is closing their doors due to economy which I think is sad to hear. No one wants to close a business they have worked so hard to build and maintain. I do have to wonder if there is a way the company can be kept open as they are bringing a great thing to education and the academic world. That’s just my thought. Thanks so much for discussing this issue as I feel it is important for everyone to know how great this application does work.”

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New idea Collaboration Application and Free Trial for Scriptwriters

A couple of interesting items have just come to my attention that will interest some of you.

WRIDEA

Wridea is a new online application to facilitate your own brain-storming — and it allows you to invite others to chip in their ideas too.  One must sign up for an account, but it’s FREE.

I’ve just tried it out and am intrigued.  I can enter my ideas, categorize them, add notes for each idea, set up separate pages for different projects and invite friends to take a look and add their own thoughts.  Pretty neat.

As it happens, I’m working on three projects right now that require collaboration across distances.  I’m therefore beginning to search for powerful, yet inexpensive collaboration tools.  DO YOU HAVE ANY COLLABORATION TOOLS TO RECOMMEND?  Please leave your comments.

The major difficulty I’m finding is that some of my collaborators just never log in to the collaboration site.  Have not yet figured out how to get these people actively involved.

TWELVE POINT — for scriptwriters

TwelvePoint is an online resource center for scriptwriters.  It is jam-packed with information and useful tools.  But it’s NOT FREE.

The site, however, has just issued an invitation for a one-week free trial.  This is an excellent opportunity to see if this site will be helpful to you.  Here’s what the site developer sent me as a teaser:

It’s easy to apply for your free trial. Just email jonquil@twelvepoint.com with ‘free trial’ as the subject and she will contact you with details of how to access the site. Please note, because TwelvePoint.com provides such a wealth of information, you may not apply for more than one free trial a year.”

NOTE:  I’ve accumulated quite a number of links about other collaboration applications below.  If this topic interests you, take a look.  To be honest, I’ve added them for my own reference, but you might have this list useful as well.

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Another Deal for Writers: Liquid Story Binder at 50-percent Discount — TUESDAY ONLY

Bits du Jour is working overtime in behalf of writers this week.  On TUESDAY ONLY,  writers can pick up Liquid Story Binder for half-price — that’s $22.98, discounted from $45.95.  I reviewed this application a bit over a year ago, when it was last offered by Bits du Jour.  It offers a unique writer’s environment that creative types will particularly like.  And it has a very active Yahoo Group full of discussion about how to make the most of it.  With this one-day advance notice,I recommend that you download it immediately so that you can play around with it before your actual purchase.

All of our readers would like to know what you think of it.  Leave a comment.

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Great Value for Writers: History Explorer for $5.99 — TODAY ONLY

If you write a lot, you need History Explorer.

There’s nothing more troublesome than keeping a version history of your major writing projects.  I’ve written about that challenge from time to time in this blog and some months back even recommended this program when it was offered for free on Giveaway of the Day.  Those “giveaways,” however, are good for one-time installation only, and I lost my copy when my hard drive died.  I’m so glad that Bits du Jour is the one offering it now, at an unbelievable 70 percent discount.  The discount is available TODAY ONLY — that’s all day Sunday in the US.  And the program can be re-installed, if necessary — just save your installation file and the user registration code.

The download routine is a little bit quirky.  Once you’ve downloaded the file and click on it, one is asked to download it yet again via the Digital River Download Manager.  Stick with it, and do as instructed.  From this second download file, installation is straight-forward.

The program is added to your start up routine; it adds an icon to your task tray.  It does this so that it can automatically monitor files that you wish to save automatically as the versions progress.  Monitoring can be temporarily disabled by clicking on the tray icon.

The version offered for sale today is 2.1.  Purchase qualifies one for free upgrades for all subsequent 2.x versions.  This will be valuable, as some important new features are scheduled for release as early as this fall.  This program continues under serious development.  Another nice feature:  it can be installed on multiple computers, as long as it is not used simultaneously on two machines.  This is ideal for writers who work on both laptop and desktop — or at office and at home.  The developer is very vigilant about product support, always a plus.

For writers who insist on using freeware, there is a somewhat similar program available called File Hamster.  This program, while designed with graphic designers in mind, works equally well for writers.  As it happens, I just installed it yesterday for evaluation. The free version, however, will not be upgraded any more.  For upgrades, as well as for some useful plug-ins, one has to pay — so the program turns out not to be as “free” as it looks.

I’ll play around with both over the next few weeks.  At first glance though, I’m likely to give the nod to History Explorer, which has an interface that I find more useful.

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AbiWord: Among Top 25 Free Apps in ZDnet Survey

ZDnet is one of the most influential of sites about computers, software and freeware.  Today it posted a list of the top 25 free aplications, as suggested by its readers.  In my view, it’s the best such list I’ve ever seen.  I know almost all of the applications myself, have them installed on my own computer and can vouch for all of them.  But the biggest surprise to me was the appearance of the free multi-platform word processor AbiWord.

If you need a capable word processor without the huge investment required to purchase Microsoft Word, AbiWord is certainly a prime candidate.  True, it can’t do everything that Word can.  But most writers don’t need the complexity of Word.  This may just be the time to take AbiWord for a spin.

If the application appeals to you, be certain to check out the Plug-in Matrix page.  AbiWord supports quite a number of plug-ins that extend its functionality.  Basically there are two packs of plbug-in’s.  One deals with import and export of various file formats.  I was surprised to discover some unusual and potentially very useful import options that even Word doesn’t have.  More important is the Tools pack, with some very handy options.  One that especially caaught my eye, as a sight-impaired writer, is the text-to-speech option that will allow one to hear what you type without resorting to an external application.

By the way, some of the article links below are very informative too.

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bookTome: Catalog Your Books for Free

By now, you probably know about some of the book cataloging applications available online, such as Library Thing and Good Reads.  These tools are particularly useful for those into social networking.  Through these mechanisms, you can run into like-minded readers and uncover books you may not know about.  But these online facilities may not be the best option for cataloging your entire library.  That’s where bookTome comes in.

This free application resides on your own computer.  Entering your books is dead simple, IF the book happens to be in the huge Amazon database.  Just enter the ISBN number, and information about the book is automatically imported if you are online.  You can also add other useful information on your own, such as the physical location of the book.

There’s another similar program called BookCAT, but it’s a shareware program that you must buy.  bookTome should fill the bill for most.

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Two Productivity Applications and the Writer’s Digest 101 Best Sites for Writers

I’ve enjoyed the past couple of days exploring a new application that’s come to my attention.  ToodleDo is worth your attention.  And the 101 Best Sites for Writers always contains useful links.

Writer’s Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers - Now Online

Each year I look forward especially to the Writer’s Digest Best Websites for Writers list.  Always I find something new and helpful.  Routinely, the list comes out a month or two after appearing in the print edition.  Today I received an alert that this year’s list is finally online.  Check out the 101 Best Sites for Writers for 2009.

Once again, the list provides little coverage of the nuts-and-bolts and productivity side of things.  Still the editors have founda lot of gems.  Over 2000 websites were nominated this year.

Documents To Go — Now Available for iPhone

It seems like Documents To Go, the application that allows one to work with Office documents on one’s handheld device, has been around forever.  I remember using it years ago when I was still carrying around my early Palm Pilot.  Developer DataViz has done an extraordinary keeping the application up to date.  It has now just announced Documents to Go for the iPhone.  It’s available at the Apple iTunes store, along with 50,000 other applications.

ToodleDo:  A ToDo List Worth Doing

I’m a sucker for To Do List applications.  Toss one my way and I’ll certainly take a close look at it.  Few, however, stick around on my own computer.  ToodleDo may win me over — and I certainly recommend it to other writers for at least an evaluation.

ToodleDo is an online ToDo list manager.  What makes it different in my eyes is its underlying power.  Your ToDo List can be as simple as you wish — OR it can pull into one place multiple lists representing every aspect of your life, each tucked away in its own easy-to-access folder.  Moreover, tasks can have subtasks, an essential feature in my view.  Oh, yes, and of course it can be synced up with your - you guessed it - iPhone.

ToodleDo comes in three flavors.  The free version will satisfy most writers, although it lacks the subtasks feature.  The Pro Version [$14.95 a year] may well be worth it to some.  The Pro Plus Version, I think, will not appeal to writers, especially at $29.95 a year.

To help one understand the applications vast array of features, take a look at the product comparison chart.  Probably you will learn just how deficient other To Do List applications really are.

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Another Extraordinary E-Book Option, Plus A Multi-Media E-Book Demo

Some months back, I ran across a most remarkable short e-book that was viewable online.  Several things immediately caught my attention:

• First, the format fit precisely onto the computer screen.  No scrolling was necessary.
• With a simple mouse click, I was able to turn to the next page.  Not only that, the page-turn was accomplished in a clever visual metaphor mimic’ing an actual page turn in a real book.
• And finally, the e-book was full of graphics and color photos, something not yet readily available in other e-book formats.

Exploration uncovered the innovative software that made this possible:  PDF 2 Page Turn.  I made a note of it, thinking it would be an ideal format if I ever take the material within the blog into a well-organized series of e-books.  I even spent a lot of time trying to learn just HOW TO FORMAT an e-cook to fit onto the computer screen.  I was discouraged to discover that it isn’t very simple, especially if one wants to add extra’s, such as multi-columns and graphics.  Microsoft Word, for example, fails miserably.  I concluded that I might be required to purchase very expensive software publishing program Adobe InDesign.  I shelved my ideas, with major disappointment.

Today, I learned a lot more about this format and the company behind it.  The format is the DNL e-book, developed over many years by the Australian company DNAML.  Yes, it is yet another e-book proprietary format, one of quite a number that have emerged to confuse potential readers.  But this one has some real advantages for authors, especially those whose books contain graphics and photos.

DNL e-books follow along with the trend toward free sample chapters, capped by, if the author so chooses, an online purchase option for those who wish to continue.  And there are at least two online sites that feature these e-books:  Sharewareebooks and e-book.com.

In fact, there’s one book from the online catalog that immediately grabbed my attention, as a writer:  The Spoken Word Revolution, a multi-media collection of work by top producers of slam, hip-hop and performance poetry.  I could not resist downloading it, first to inspect the book’s contents, but also to see a DNL e-book in action.  It was a wise decision!

The download required installation of the DNL Reader, a simple and FREE procedure, followed by a more lengthy download of the e-book itself.  Once the e-book was downloaded into my e-book folder, a mouse click brought up the DNL Reader, with the e-book ready to explore.  The DNL Reader, I discovered, is a beautiful creation, simple to use, yet very powerful.  It is definitely worth a look, just on its own right.

The book, it turns out, was first published in 2003 by Sourcebooks, itself a website that aspiring writers should know about.  I was amazed to discover that this book is part printed book, part audio CD.  With the DNL Reader publication, the two are wedded seamlessly together.

What is most interesting for writers is the software that makes publication very simple:  Desktop Author. This software allows a writer to easily upload a manuscript, activate 3-D page turns, publish within minutes and even add multi-media.  DNL e-books can even be protected by a Digital Rights Management signature.  If this interests you, I recommend that you first view the FREE DNL e-book that explains the format in detail:  The DNL Format.

Desktop Author is not cheap, costing US$119.  But for many authors, this format may be ideal.  For more detailed information about the program, check out the User Manuel.

I myself am so intrigued that I might buy it.  But first I need to do a detailed analysis to see if the program will handle the format I have in mind.   If i do buy the program, look for a series of multi-media e-books about productivity for writers.  AND also an e-book series for harmonica players, one of my current major projects.

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More E-Book News: Scribd, iPad, B and N, Cool-er

The past two weeks have been full of rumors and developments regarding e-books.  Certainly this category of publishing is very active right now, just as book, magazine and newspaper sales are plunging.

SCRIBD

About six weeks ago, I wrote a series The Pieces Are Beginning To Fit in which I observed that the digital age was finally offering several routes to publication that are really substantial.  I pointed to Smashwords as the new model.  Now along comes a competitor:  Scribd.

The online global edition of the New York Times recently carried an excellent description of the new service.

IPAD

Rumors are now swirling in geek-world about a possible tablet-size version of the iPod, with speculation that it might be unveiled at Apple’s upcoming press-con on June 8.  Such a device might compete directly with the new Kindle DX, offering much broader applicability, while still offering a good reading experience.

BARNES and NOBLE - entering the e-reader field?

There are also rumors that Barnes and Noble will soon unveil its own e-reader, tightly tied in to its online store.  Another direct challenge to the Amazon Kindle.

COOL-er — NOT YET READY FOR PRIME-TIME

There’s yet another entry into the e-reader field:  the Cool-er, coming out of UK.  The Times has just reviewed it, giving it high marks for some of its innovative features and very low marks for usability.  The main thing to like is its capability to allow book purchasers to “sell” their books once they have finished with them.  This “pass-along” model would probably have a strong appeal.  The Times reviewer hopes that the next hardware version corrects the reader’s many shortcomings.

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CASE STUDY: Poet Karen Blomain on Productive Writing

BLOGMASTER’S NOTE:  Poet Karen Blomain is well known not only for her books of poetry, but also as a highly-regarded writing workshop leader.  She has also published in other genres and recently had a full-length stage play produced by a regional theater in Pennsylvania.  She has been kind enough to kick off this new series of CASE STUDIES about productive writers, answering questions about how she deals with the FOUR CORNERSTONES OF PRODUCTIVITY for the writers.

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GENERAL:

TOM: Not being a poet, I do not have any understanding at all about how a poet approaches writing.  The romantic view is that poets just listen for the muse to speak to them.  Sudden inspiration drives the pen.  No thinking, organizing or even very conscious discipline during the writing process is necessary.  Is that romantic view of poetry accurate?

KAREN: It’s both romantic and accurate.  The initial impulse of the poem is much as you describe.  Suddenly, something hits.  Some metaphor suggests itself in an otherwise ordinary day.  Then the scribbling begins to see where it might lead.  Richard Hugo in “The Triggering Town” refers to the initiating subject.  So perhaps it’s the view of laundry hanging on a clothesline that begins to scroll backward in time and suggest a connection to some emotion or experience.  Of course, I’m speaking of my own process here.  Other poets may work in a completely different way. I just let the writing come—without censor or judgment—not even thinking about how anything is connected.  It always is.  That’s the integrity of mind.  Once I have everything I can think of to say—no matter how digressive, silly, or weird written down.  I give it a rest.  Later I come back and take this raw material and see how it makes itself into a poem.

THINKING:

TOM: Do you “think” about your poetry writing in any organized way?  Like mulling over objectives for yourself as a poet?  Tapping your inner resources for ideas for future poems — or even poetry book collections?  I guess what I’m asking is, do poets “think” about their work before actually sitting down to do it?

KAREN: I would hate to think of my thinking process as organized.  And I never have an a priori idea about what a poem is about in the sense of aboutness that, for instance, an essay has.  I find the aboutness somewhere about midway through the rewriting process when it announces itself and I say, “Oh, that’s what’s underneath this idea.  That’s the connection between these two things.  The unconscious is often much more literal than we imagine it is.  Much craftier too.  One thing I know for sure: I have to go slowly with this process or I may lose the point completely.  What do the images suggest?  How do they pile up toward a particular meaning?  A long time ago there was a poetry textbook I love the name of because it says so much about poetry:  How does a poem mean.  I like that because poetry is much more about how a poem means than what it means.

I do often get ideas from reading other people’s poems in much the same way musicians hear and understand what each other might be doing and then add their own spin to it.  When I teach poetry, I often have students read a book or two and find a line that speaks to them and then write toward or away from that line—agreeing or enhancing or arguing with or complaining about the line.  It’s a great exercise.

I don’t actually think about anything before I write.  But I definitely have a very specific feeling that makes me know I am about to engage in poetry.  It’s quite different than other types of writing I’ve done: fiction, essays, plays.

I save scraps of things that I think might eventually work their way into a poem.  I keep a “button box” with little provocative items, words, images, snatches of overheard conversation, metaphors.  When I feel stuck, I mine that box.  Often, the thing I select is just the thing I’ve been groping for.

TOM: Can you describe any thinking routines that you follow?

KAREN: I like to think about the way a poem suggests itself rather like a frayed bit of yarn that I can tug and follow as it unravels itself.  The most important piece for me is to separate writing—that spacious, non-judgmental, attentiveness–with rewriting and editing.  The second two should not take place simultaneous with the first.  Do them much later.  Let the raw materials of the poem breathe and coalesce for a while before rushing in to tidy it up.  And especially be careful with revising that you don’t eviscerate the poem.  I think it best to wait a week or two in stage one—going back to reread and add if anything new occurs, but do not get rid of anything or even put much effort into the order of things for a long while.  As you can tell, poetry is not fast food.  In fact, there are poems in my new book, Hard Bargain, that I have been writing for twenty-five years.

ORGANIZING:

TOM: Do poets organize things?  If so, how and why?

KAREN: When I do get down to editing, I depend very much on my ear to tell me the order of things.  Poetry, whether free verse or formal verse, is, above all, a kind of music.  You have to allow the order of the poem and the music of the poem to interact.  In the new book, there are a number of formal poems: pantoums and villanelles mostly.  These require a different kind of organizing because of the repetition and rhyme scheme. The editing process is fraught with pitfalls.  Go slowly with change.  Sit with it for a while.  Revisit and rewrite.

TOM: Do you have any organizational tricks that helped you create your poetry book?

KAREN: I find organizing a book of poems among the most challenging tasks a writer can undertake.  There are so many things to consider in the movement through a book.  It’s, I think, rather like writing a symphony—pushing toward a flow with has both variety and cohesiveness.  Some poems are difficult to place.  I’ve had poems for years that I have not been able to figure out how to use in any of my books.  They are good poems, but for one reason or another they don’t work in the sequence.

WRITING:

TOM: Do you as a poet simply use Microsoft Word as your word processor of choice?  Or do use some other program for your writing?

KAREN: I use Word.  I use a pen and tablet.  I use paper napkins.  For years, I used a fabulous old IBM Selectic.  Now I use my laptop.

TOM: If you could create a writing software to suit your own needs, what would you include?

KAREN: A simple way to keep track of and compare various versions.  It’s amazing that a fourteen-line poem can often go through fifty revisions.

TOM: What other resources did you keep at hand while you were writing your book?  Dictionaries?  Synonym dictionaries, or rhyming dictionaries?  If so, what specifically do you yourself turn to, either in print, online resources, or software?

KAREN: Occasionally, I consult a rhyming dictionary—as a last result and almost always with poor results.  Otherwise, I do consult dictionary.com to see if I am using a word correctly.  Mostly for poetry, I rely on my own vocabulary, as that sounds most natural to me as the language of my own thoughts.  I believe, as my guru poet William Stafford said, that poetry is the music of ordinary speech.  I try to avoid arcane words or tortured syntax.  Instead, I like a kind of democratic, energetic language.

PROMOTING:

TOM: Do you have a literary agent?  If so, how did you find one?  If not, how do you go about representing yourself to potential publishers?

KAREN: 99% of poets do not have an agent.  There is simply not enough money in poetry for agents to be interested.  I have had various agents for my fiction.  I am not particularly good at getting my work out. Every once in a while, I’ll notice that I have a bunch of new poems lying around and I’ll send then out to literary magazines.  I’m just terrible at the bookkeeping end of these things.  I wish this were not the case.  Maybe somebody could (or already has) invent a good software program for keeping track of submissions.  I would love to know about it.  I just do it rather haphazardly.

TOM: Was your poetry book published by an established publisher?  Or did you self-publish?  How did you choose between the two options, and why?

KAREN: My first two books were published by Nightshade Press which also published my second and third chapbook.  When the Nightshade owners retired, I didn’t have a press for a while. Then FootHills Publishing approached me.  I have admired their product.  A book of poetry is a little jewel and I like the production quality of the book to mirror the content.  I am extremely happy with my book and the work of Mike Czarnecki and FootHills Publishing.  Check out the website.  He publishes some of the best poets of our time.  And his handmade books are beautiful.

TOM: Do you do anything yourself to promote your book?  If so, what?  What promotional help does your publisher provide?

KAREN: FootHills Publishing has a great website and Mike provides some leads for readings.  I offer workshops and readings and network through those contacts.  Check out my website www.karenblomain.com to see where I am appearing in the next few months.  I also belong to two writers groups.  Occasionally, I do classroom visits in schools.  Both the publisher and I used the net to promote the book.

CONCLUSION:

TOM: What advice can you provide to aspiring poets regarding the productivity and business side of writing?  Any other parting advice?

KAREN: My advice to all writers is the same: don’t rush the process.  Don’t be in such a hurry to publish that you short-change the process of revision and editing.  Join a writers group.  Network with other writers.  Know your markets and your audience.  Don’t make it into such a business that you forget it is an art.  You are never going to make a million dollars writing poems, but the writer’s life is priceless.

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