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If you have two books that you want to release at roughly the same time or two book ideas, you may be tempted to write them at the same time. While there are some good reasons to do this, there are also some downsides. Read more to learn if working on two books at the same time would be right for you.
Pros of Working on Two Books at the Same Time
There are a couple very valid reasons for working on two books at the same time. The biggest reason is that you’ll be able to control your release dates. If you want to release a book every two or three months, you can do that once you have multiple books finished, assuming you are self-publishing.
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If you’re like every other writer I’ve met, you get random ideas for novels that you know would be great and well-received by readers, but it’s not always convenient to start working on a new novel, especially if you’re already working on a single title or the next book in your series. So, what’s the best way to handle all these ideas?
How to Get the Ideas Down so You Can Write Them Later
The biggest problem with being a very prolific author is the number of ideas that you may have for various novels. Thankfully, you can efficiently handle these ideas so that you can work on them after you finish your current manuscript.
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Have you heard of the term over-editing? If you’re a fiction or non-fiction author, you’ve probably run across this term more than once. It obviously means, you’d done too much editing on your current manuscript, but what is the definition of too much editing?
Over-Editing – A Definition
Over-editing occurs when the editing process fails to move the book forward or make the content of the book cleaner and/or more appealing to readers.
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Wavemaker is a piece of novel writing and card making software with novel planning features. It is an add-on for Chrome and Chromium. Because it adds onto the browser as an external application, it works with all platforms. It's also available in the Google Play Store. All versions of this software are free as of this writing.
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Writer Tools is a piece of novel writing software that is available for Android and Online, meaning it can be used for all types of computers as well as portable devices. The software is completely free for mobile, tablet and online use most assuredly not completely free. See the red note. It is advertised as a novel planner, tracker and editor.
NOTE: I have not found a way to get the novel to download. AKA: Export does not work. If you click on it in the webbrowser version, it downloads a test.docx. This looks good initially, but if you put text in the scene/chapter and try to download it again, you still get a blank test document. While it is supposed to sync with Google Docs, going into your drive may not work either. I could find the file in my Google Drive, so that little backdoor trick may not work. If you try the same thing in your Android device, you'l get the message to UPGRADE. AKA: PAY PAY PAY to get access to your novel, and since the web version of export doesn't work, I wouldn't recommend plunking down your hard-earned money for this. To date, the only way to get your novel off Writer Tools would be to C/P every single scene into a document on your computer. Depending on how much you've written in Writer Tools, you could be looking at hours to get your text out of the program.