{"id":968,"date":"2015-10-25T08:45:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T08:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/truthdevour.com\/blog\/?p=968"},"modified":"2015-10-25T08:58:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T08:58:31","slug":"words-dont-come-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truthdevour.com\/blog\/words-dont-come-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Words don’t come easy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been writing voluntarily since I was knee high to a grass hopper and was\u00a0often perplexed that after countless stories, I am still not lost for ideas. Thirty plus years later and I find myself in a position where I feel the pressure of time escaping my ability to capture all that is within me to tell.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

My career\u00a0as a budding writer only began upon the turn of chance in 2013, so little is currently known of my full works. I’m still in two minds as to whether I will release the other stories that have preceded my decision to write for public\u00a0consumption. Time and desire will be the final adjudicator\u00a0on this.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0experience of prepping my work for publication has certainly placed me in a state of awareness about the importance of having independent eyes assess my work. Initially, I wasn’t certain that I needed an editor. The reality was quite the opposite as I soon found myself recognizing that I had been so entrenched in my writing that I had become blind to my own errors. My age old trick of carefully reading the words out loud to myself still had me defaulting to reading between the lines. Especially when I cycled through the same story multiple times.<\/p>\n

Originality is critical when writing. I want to maintain my interest in the story I’m producing and obviously the reader wants to be entertained. This is where I have leveraged off the use of various tried and true writing tools. I’m never without access to a dictionary, thesaurus and these days a grammar checking application. As I said in the introduction to this post, I have many a story, what I find I’m struggling with is ensuring that I maintain a sense of originality in the wordsmithing of my pieces. It’s a fine balance between maintaining a consistency in delivery without boring our united senses with word and descriptive overuse.<\/p>\n

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‘What are the right<\/em> writing aids to use?’<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My choice to use the word ‘right’ in the question posed above is tongue in cheek. There is no right or wrong, at least that is my perspective. The tools available should be measured by how they fulfill your needs. I’ve researched some of the grammar, spell checking applications\u00a0currently\u00a0available on the market. It’s clear there is no singular application, which is considered 100% infallible, especially when it comes to the application of grammar. In saying this the increase in uptake of the self publishing realm has driven a\u00a0burst of new software to support people in their writing endeavors. I am currently using WhiteSmoke 2012 to challenge my grammatical skills and generally sanity check my work along the way.<\/p>\n

Personally, I find the new age of apps being frequently developed very exciting. My iPad is filled with hundreds of writing based concepts. When I am taking\u00a0some downtime from developing my novel,\u00a0I go online to search for the latest writing gizmo or idea because off the back of this, I find my mind expands to leverage ideas for improved, planning, marketing and\u00a0writing.<\/p>\n

Here are a few of my favorites in no particular order:<\/p>\n

[bd_table]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
iTunes Applications<\/th>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
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  • Decision Map<\/li>\n
  • Mind Meister<\/li>\n
  • Index Cards<\/li>\n
  • Sticky Notes<\/li>\n
  • GoodReader<\/li>\n
  • Evernote<\/li>\n
  • iScrumboard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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