Mama Love @ wifetalks.com

Writer’s Blocks 08 December 2003

I’ve decided to try to redo and continue working on my web soap opera. It’s not up, but I’ve written quite a bit on it so far. Maybe some day it will go online. For now, I’m just developing my storylines. Today I discovered a great program to help me write my serial. It actually works with just about any type of writing. It comes with a term paper, a creative writing and a graph sample to help you get started. It’s called Writer’s Blocks. It allows you to develop your story in pieces and organize the pieces as needed for whatever you’re writing. I’m currently using it to keep track of my storylines and characters. I’m also going to use it to develop my episodes. It is sort of an outline tool, but it has a built in word processor so you can do the actual writing as well. For me, it is so much easier to see everything broken down into pieces than trying to put it all on one big text document.

Each block can be a scene or an summary of a scene. Then you can drag and drop your scenes wherever they need to go to work in your story. If you’re doing a screenplay it has a function to format your content into screenplay submission format. As I mentioned above, I’m using it to keep track of my characters. Each block is a different character. I can link the blocks to link specific characters to each other and I can organize the blocks into columns, so I could put each family in its own column.

I think it is a great tool for someone like me who has a difficult time with writing. Seeing it all in pieces help make it less overwhelming. And I can keep it all organized so much better. Now, if I can only come up with the $150 to purchase it. :| (I’m currently using the 10-day trial)