How to Prepare for NaNoWriMo
Practical pre-November prep: pick your story, flesh out characters, and sketch scenes, with notes on how Hiveword and Knockout Novel help with each step.
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61 postsNew Features in Hiveword
User-requested features: insert scenes exactly where you want them, type multi-word tags without quotes, mark characters as Neutral, and MyWKB bug fixes.
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Hoping for the Best -- The Perils of Pantsing
A pointer to a guest post at The Bookshelf Muse on the risks of writing by the seat of your pants and what you can do about it.
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Hiveword review by Lynn Viehl
A link to Lynn Viehl's review of Hiveword on her Paperback Writer blog.
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Free online novel writing software for NaNoWriMo
Hiveword is now free, and here's why you should use it to plan scenes, characters, and plotlines before NaNoWriMo starts.
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Personalized Writer's Knowledge Base
Introducing MyWKB, a personalized Writer's Knowledge Base that lists articles chronologically, shows what you've read and missed, and keeps your search history.
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Planning Your Novel
A pointer to a guest post at Mystery Writing is Murder on why a little planning saves tons of time, along with some ways to go about it.
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Reverse Engineering Your Novel
A response to M.E. Summer's murder board post: reverse engineering a story is outlining after the fact, and here's which story problems Hiveword can and can't track.
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Location Generation
How Hiveword's location generator draws from over 100,000 real places, links each to Google Maps and Wikipedia, and can create a setting in one click.
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Character Name Generation
Why naming characters is hard, and how Hiveword's name generator gives you twenty first and last name combos plus a pre-filled character sheet in one click.
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