Snowflake Software Review

I first heard of Randy’s Snowflake Method several years ago. I downloaded his software and gave it a try. It turned out that I didn’t much care for the software.

When he released this latest book, I read it and gave the Snowflake a try again. But this time I set it up in Microsoft One Note, creating a tabe for each step of the process. It has greatly streamlined my outlining and plotting process.

And One Note allows me to make additions anywhere, from any device. Perfect for the guy with a day job. The Snowflake is a great starting point for any author.

Randy is known around the world as “the Snowflake Guy” for his Snowflake method of designing a novel. Now he’s created software to make the Snowflake method. Jan 30, 2014. As a a self-published author of historical fiction and historical fantasy, I use the Snowflake Method to help me write novels. It was invented by Randy Ingermanson, the multiple-award-winning US novelist and teacher of writing crafts.

You can add steps or subtract them as you determine what works best. The book is very short and Randy’s method of getting the steps across is brilliant (and fun). I’ll be talking with Randy at the end of this month at the ACFW conference. I can’t wait!

I don’t use Randy’s software, but I have used his method (or about the first five steps) for a number of books now. I have used it for writing new books, and also for restructuring/rewriting older ones or just coming up with blurbs.

It’s exciting for me to be able to pull together a book plan quickly (I do it all in one day, not over several like he says) I have set up a template within Scrivener for the Snowflake method, and it’s great to have it right there, ready to go, as soon as I start a new novel. This is downright spooky. I’ve got a series I don’t want to write, but the people in that series won’t leave me alone. I tell them to scoot because it’s complex world building that’s putting knots in my brain, but they don’t care. I’ve had Snowflake Pro for over a year now but haven’t used it. I thought for sure firing it up and throwing those characters in the program would shut them up.

No, it’s opened them up and has helped immensely in building the world they live in. I started working with it two days ago, the day you posted this, and it’s been amazing.

It’s as if the story is being told to me and I unfold it through each snowflake with clarity and much pounding of the keyboard. Pure mesmerization. Advanced Email Extractor Pro Registration Cracked Games.

I also have PD that blossomed into full-blown agoraphobia. It’s how I became a screenwriter. I had an agent and publishing contract for a novel way back in the 90s, but knew there was no way I could handle even signing the contract because of my agoraphobia. I had to walk away but couldn’t stop writing.

So I chose a form I thought I’d NEVER have a snowflake’s chance in A Hot Place of making it. Public speaking is the #1 fear across the general population, but oddly enough those with true disorders of the limbic portion of the brain usually make brilliant public speakers, if they don’t pass out before hitting the stage. They’re also cool as snowflakes in a real disaster.

But if I find myself ANYWHERE near black lingerie (one of my many phobias), I pass out. It only took 10 years of diligent practice of CBT before the switch flipped and I could leave my comfort zone, but some degree of it is with me at all times. Them’s the breaks. For most, it’s not an emotional or mental illness, it’s a unique physical condition that doesn’t fit well with the modern world. And so it goes, eh?

Thank you for bringing us this interview, Joanna. All of these interviews have been wonderful. I didn’t try the software but it seems I am writing through the Snowflakes method without knowing it. I always start with a basic plan, basic plot idea even with more detailed scenes and a half-figured out ending but it takes me always during the process somewhere else. However, on psychological issues I am skeptical about psychiatrists and counselors. I am not saying they are useless, there are people who benefit from them and receive help from them, it’s just that everyone has to face one own’s problems.