This is a brainstorm I did for a new writing course I was developing. There are no awkward pre-set boxes for you to type text into or awkward pre-set arrows that aren’t in the right place. The picture at the top of this post is what Scapple looks like. The other great thing about Scapple is that it’s all free-form. This gives you a truly great opportunity to road test it and see if it works for you. So if I only use it on 2 days in one month, then 5 days the following month and 10 days the month after, I still have 13 days of use to go until the free license expires. The trial is for the full version of the software, with all functionality. The first great thing about Scapple is that you can get a free trial for 30 days. Scapple has been my tool of choice in doing this. I’ve found that brainstorming has been an excellent way to come up with lots of ideas for a course outline, to group those ideas and to narrow down those ideas. For instance, I’ve been pitching some new writing courses to the places where I currently teach. I’ve also had lots of other projects I’ve needed to generate ideas for over the past few months. I’m not talking about a chapter by chapter plan but simply a few ideas that give me some direction but that still allow for new ideas and new directions to emerge in the writing. And if there’s one thing I’ve learnt from writing 3 books, it’s that having some loose ideas about plot makes the writing quicker, and for me, more enjoyable. If I had an idea for a story, I tended to sit down and start writing, letting the story unfold, sometimes very slowly, day by day. I’ve not been much of a brainstormer in the past. And my hopes were not misplaced.įirstly, a word about brainstorming. Given how much I love Scrivener, I had high hopes hopes of falling in love with Scapple too. A while ago I mentioned I had started playing around with Scapple, a brainstorming app from Literature and Latte, the makers of my favourite piece of writing software, Scrivener.
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