I LOVE Liquid Story Binder. I used to carry around tons of notebooks and pads to keep all my notes for my various WIP. Now I just input my thoughts within the book or article file, and LSB provides a multitude of ways in which to do so. (Thus allowing me to prioritize its importance).
Pros: I can keep it on a flashdrive (which, I of course, save on various other drives in case I lose it). I love attaching pictures to dossiers (I have dossiers for worlds, characters, fictional businesses, families, you name it), and I really like being able to save a multitude of music playlists for each book. (There are tons of others, but this is just what I can think of off the top of my head).
Cons: I wish I could find a way to copy from book to book, but no luck so far. Also, I wish they had more variation in the normal colors for backgrounds.
I really recommend it if your thoughts tend to come out in a jumbled heap and you would like something that easily, and cost effectively provides organization.
I was working on a historical and needed to keep track of of a detailed timeline. This software helped me ‘bind’ together the timeline, genealogical charts, & location layouts. Of course it also handled the standard character images/descriptions and the writing itself.
Thanks for pointing this out, Ilona! And thanks to the others for their candid opinions. I downloaded the demo and plan to put it through its paces. I’m hoping it works because I do need a way to keep all the stuff straight besides the Excel spreadsheets and the various notebooks. I’ll always keep a paper backup because paranoia is an author’s constant companion, but this bit of software looks very intriguing.
How do you send a killer to the grave when he’s already dead?
Having narrowly averted an (under)world war, Cat Crawfield wants nothing more than a little downtime with her vampire husband, Bones. Unfortunately, her gift from New Orleans’ voodoo queen just keeps on giving–leading to a personal favor that sends them into battle once again, this time against a villainous spirit.
Centuries ago, Heinrich Kramer was a witch hunter. Now, every All Hallows Eve, he takes physical form to torture innocent women before burning them alive. This year, however, a determined Cat and Bones must risk all to send him back to the other side of eternity–forever. But one wrong step and they’ll be digging their own graves.
Sounds great. Not being a writer though I couldn’t comment lol
I LOVE Liquid Story Binder. I used to carry around tons of notebooks and pads to keep all my notes for my various WIP. Now I just input my thoughts within the book or article file, and LSB provides a multitude of ways in which to do so. (Thus allowing me to prioritize its importance).
Pros: I can keep it on a flashdrive (which, I of course, save on various other drives in case I lose it). I love attaching pictures to dossiers (I have dossiers for worlds, characters, fictional businesses, families, you name it), and I really like being able to save a multitude of music playlists for each book. (There are tons of others, but this is just what I can think of off the top of my head).
Cons: I wish I could find a way to copy from book to book, but no luck so far. Also, I wish they had more variation in the normal colors for backgrounds.
I really recommend it if your thoughts tend to come out in a jumbled heap and you would like something that easily, and cost effectively provides organization.
Jane
I also love this software!
I was working on a historical and needed to keep track of of a detailed timeline. This software helped me ‘bind’ together the timeline, genealogical charts, & location layouts. Of course it also handled the standard character images/descriptions and the writing itself.
And ya can’t beat the price.
Bottom Line: Worked great for me.
Thanks for pointing this out, Ilona! And thanks to the others for their candid opinions. I downloaded the demo and plan to put it through its paces. I’m hoping it works because I do need a way to keep all the stuff straight besides the Excel spreadsheets and the various notebooks. I’ll always keep a paper backup because paranoia is an author’s constant companion, but this bit of software looks very intriguing.
Oh my goodness, yes. I wish it came in Mac!
I like Scrivener, myself–a Mac-only program that I only regret can’t handle tables very well. (But that’s technically a problem with the Mac OS.)
If you want to copy book-to-book, just go in the My Liquid Story Binder folder and manually copy files over.