![]() ![]() What I probably would have done next, would have been to get the text from the mind map exported out and ready to put into Scrivener or in Dragon Dictate text editor window. I have in fact already started on this way of working by diving into the mind mapping application before doing anything else. I am a pantser by nature! Even so I think I’m going to give this other way of working a try, because I think I will end up with better structured final product if I organise myself in this way. This is what is known as writing by the seat of your pants. When I am doing my writing, I generally have a few ideas of what I want to write about and I just get started in my writing software and see how it flows. He was talking about how he likes to plan things with his writing work and build up an outline using mind mapping, before moving on to an outline program and then onwards to Scrivener. Next thing I know I’m listening to the NosillaCast podcast by Alison Sheridan and she’s talking to David Sparks of Mac Power Users Podcast who was explaining the way that he does his writing. NosillaCast and David Sparks talking about a writing workflow ![]() You can jump from idea to idea and just throw it in there and then you do all of the organisation at a later stage. The nice thing about using mind mapping software is that you don’t have to think in a one-dimensional way. This is also the case when using iThoughts mind mapping software on the iPad as well. ![]() I like to dictate into my computer, in fact, all of my devices as much as possible so that I don’t have to use the keyboard. This week I started to think about a new book to write and it is going to be about switching from iOS to Android and so I opened up iThoughts HD on the iPad. I have had mind mapping software for quite some time now and I like using it, but often forget to get it out of the box as it were. Thinking and getting those ideas organised into a book
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