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Originally Posted by caleb72
I love seeing people's approach to creating a story. My approach would be this - first of all, I would develop software that would help me plan my approach to the story..........
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You may jest, but...<ahem>...<points>...
The Journal
That's pretty close to what happened.
I started keeping a journal in my early 20's because I had read writers should keep a journal. I figured it would be good "writing practice". In my late 20's, I designed and developed The Journal to make journaling easier, with an eye to building a tool that I could use for writing. Finally, in my mid-30's, I started using my software to write books and stories.
In the past couple years, a friend of mine who is also a software developer with a dream of writing did something very similar. His software,
StoryBox, is now available, and he's using it to write his next novel.
So, yeah, that happens.
Scary, no?
-David