“Andrea, do you think that a writer really needs a novel writing software?“
This is the question they ask me at every interview about bibisco.
“After all“, they say, “it’s about writing and to write you just need Microsoft Word. Isn’t it?“
What are the best practices for securely managing bibisco projects?
This is one of the questions that bibisco users ask me most, so in this post, we will analyze how bibisco stores projects and the safest way to manage them.
Let’s start from the beginning: bibisco is a desktop application, just like Microsoft Word or LibreOffice, and it stores all the data on your computer.
Therefore, there are no copies of your work on the web: neither at bibisco.com nor at Gumroad, the e-commerce platform that distributes bibisco.
There is no novel without the conflict of the characters.
This is the greatest lesson I learned from the fundamental The Art of Dramatic Writing of Lajos Egri.
And I finally understood why my stories didn’t work: my characters didn’t have a clear conflict that pushed them to action!
But, what is exactly a conflict?