Harry Potter, Tom Sawyer, Princess Leia, Romeo, and Juliet.
If you are an aspiring writer or an avid reader, you know the abovementioned names aren’t of any ordinary people. They are the protagonists, the main characters of some of the greatest novels of all time.
See, how swiftly you recognized them! As if they were your best companions for a long time. And trust me, they were.
“How to resist distractions and focus on your novel?“
It’s a question that comes to many writer’s minds. “It’s about finding inspiration and then putting it down on paper, isn’t it?” They would often say.
“Yes, it is.” This would be the brief answer if you ask me. “But, then why aren’t you finishing yours? You have got papers aplenty!“
Right now the number of books available to a reader is immense.
Through libraries and bookstores, both physical and online, every reader can access almost every book that has ever been written.
So, today more than ever, the reader by starting to read our novel takes an act of trust.
And the question every author should ask is: am I worthy of the trust of my readers?
So you are writing your dream novel.
You started time ago and you don’t know when you’ll finish.
Maybe, you write only when you are inspired and when you find the perfect conditions to do it: no issues or concerns at work, no Netflix series to finish, no plans for the weekend.
Or maybe, you struggling on a single word or a sentence, and you don’t move on until you craft the perfect solution.
You think you are growing your novel little by little.
No. You’re procrastinating.
“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?