Uses

a growing list of things to do with Worgan

1

Practice the style of writing used by an author you respect.

Start a new card under Wisdom for each author you want to study. Type a page or two or a hundred from the author's own words. See how s/he arranges sentences and handles scenes.

2

Expand an idea.

Say you have just thought of what you consider a clever idea (lets say society gets addicted to a new drug). You start a new card, probably under Plots.

On this card you may list some ideas of where this idea could go.

1. Everyone gets addicted and society collapses

2. One guy is immune and thus he can find a way to 'save' society.

These first two ideas are common. What I was told by writer's I've corresponded with is that you should ignore your first few responsive ideas. Go deeper into your mind and play with the idea. Maybe something like this:

3. This designer drugs turns out to be a boon to society.

Continue digging, using Worgan's idea cards to hold all your thoughts and see what you get.

3

Keep track of the work I complete on a story.

Start a new Project card and give it the name of your story. Add a bookmark, such as Revisions. Underneath this start typing the amount of words you wrote on a daily basis. To facilitate this perhaps date each entry (Ctrl+D will drop the current date at the cursor location).

Here you can jot down ideas that may not fit into the story at the time, but could turn out to be useful later on.

4

Keep a journal of a writing project's progress.

Each morning, before starting on your project, add your thoughts to a Worgan card. Basically you want to try and keep track of all your ideas, even the ones you've discarded in the project. When you are done for the day, summarize how the writing day went. The next day look at your summary from the previous day and so on. In this way you can keep track of the daily struggles of writing your fiction. With the use of the time clock, you can determine how much time you've invested into a given project.

 5

Know what's already been rejected at Market X.

Bring up the Project Submissions dialog. Click Search Events. Now click the checkbox for Market Type. Choose your Market. Now click Reply Type and choose Rejected. Now click the Search button. You should see a list of projects rejected on the left text box. If you see nothing, than this means you have never had anything rejected here.

If you had left the Reply Type field blank, and didn't check the check box, you would get a list of all stories sent to, rejected, bought et cetera for that Market. 

6

Use Worgan to organize anything.

Although Worgan is geared towards writing organization it can be used for other things. For example, under the Wisdom page I often put recipes. I assign them a focus recipe so that searching for them is easy. In this manner anything can be organized just by assigning different foci.