NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/misc/writing/4266

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From: [e-mail] (Crawford Kilian)
Subject: Work in Progress
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:34:06 GMT
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Redmagic is grinding along...but at least the cheque arrived from Del Rey,
just about on schedule! This has a strongly encouraging effect on most
writers.

I find I'm dealing pretty happily with a number of plot strands at the
moment. The good guys are now heading north for home with Deir, a girl who
seems to command more magical firepower than is entirely safe for a
16-year-old girl; and Nezaual, a young magician of the bad guys. Calindor,
the young supermagician hero of the novel, is out to learn both her magic and
his. Meanwhile the priest-magicians of the bad guys have learned about the
northern magician and are going to battle stations; they want to get Calindor
(and anyone else like him) onside for their theologically motivated conquest
of the world.

For what it's worth, I'm experimenting some more with Storyspace, a hypertext
writing tool for the Mac, and using it as a muscular outliner. It's working
pretty well.

Would any Mac-using writers care to know how I use the machine for writing a
novel? If so, I'll put together a list of tips; anyone who's got better
methods, please let me (and everyone else!) know what you're doing.


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Crawford Kilian   Communications Department   Capilano College
North Vancouver BC Canada V7J 3H5
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