![]() ![]() However, the strengths of a wiki–links between related content and searchability–lend it to being a useful tool for the writer. Wikis have traditionally been used as collaborative tools in which knowledge is constructed with multiple contributors adding to the whole. Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as “the simplest online database that could possibly work”. Wikis are used in business to provide intranets and Knowledge Management systems. The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. If you are digitally inclined, a wiki is one technological solution to staying organized no matter what kind of writer you are.Ī collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. There are likely as many ways to organize the writing of a novel as there are writers. In reality, this dichotomy represents the two extreme ends of a spectrum and every writer uses some system to keep all the bits and pieces of a story together. If you are a pantser, you let fingers fly on the keyboard in a gush of unfettered creativity. If you are a plotter, you write to a structured outline, with a significant and extensive amount of pre-planning. ![]() Most every writer will need some sort of organizational structure for writing a novel regardless of where you fall on the spectrum of plotter versus pantser. Her writing related blog can be found at. She has recently completed her fourth novel and is actively querying for a literary agent. Lisa is also the head moderator of Wild Poetry Forum. When she’s not reading, writing, or editing, she’s a physical therapist. It seems simple enough for a luddite like me to use.Ībout Lisa: She lives in the western suburbs of Boston, MA with her husband, 2 sons, and assorted pets (currently one dog and one rat). Lisa (left) created TiddlyWikiWrite out of an existing wiki platform (ingenious) into a tool that she calls a “virtual index card”. As part of my ongoing effort to find the perfect way to organize a mess when it comes to notes and research, I asked blogger Lisa Janice Cohen if she would share her organizing tool, TiddlyWikiWrite, and I was thrilled when she agreed.
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