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Originally Posted by gmw
Sometimes? The secret benefit of all this "writer help" software, blogs, books and courses is guilt reduction. We writers will always find ways to procrastinate, but normal methods of procrastination - things that have nothing to do with our craft - leave us feeling dejected and guilty. Enter "writer help" in all its forms. Now we can waste as much time as we want but still feel good about it because it all - seems to be - part of honing our skills, developing our craft and expanding our tool-set.
Those phrases may sound familiar to those of you who have been on management training courses. It's the same principle: guilt-free time wasting.
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What a coincidence! Last night, as I was laboriously creating this complex "world building" template that my time might be better spent actually world building than template building. But I must admit, that half finished template is IMPRESSIVE!
That being said, I'm getting the hang of mind mapping, and I do find it useful for recording ideas and placing them into a rough set of relationships. I'm finding the notes section for each placed graphic icon to be the meat of the program, but the graphics are useful for 'seeing the big picture'.