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Add an idea
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To display this wizard, click the add idea button on the MyNovel tab of the
ribbon control.
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This wizard takes you through the steps to add a new idea. You need to complete
the whole wizard in order to add the idea. Once your idea has been added it will
appear in your novel explorer. If you select the
idea in the novel explorer, the properties window will
contain all of the information you have entered in this wizard, so that you can
amend it later. Your new idea will always be appended to the bottom of the ideas
section of the novel explorer. You can drag ideas around in the novel explorer to
reorder them. If you are using the expert novel explorer
you can also arrange your ideas into as many folders as you wish in order for you
to categorize them.
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Step 1
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The first stage of the new idea wizard allows you to give the name of the new idea
and a brief description of it. If you are struggling to give a name to your new
idea, and are a registered user, the get
inspiration for a new idea button may help.
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The notes that you add here can automatically be included in your glossary. For
more information see generating a glossary.
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Add an idea - step 1
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Step 2
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The next stage of the wizard allows you to add pictures / images related to your
idea.
If you add this idea to a diagram the first image will be shown within the diagram.
For more information see the diagram editor. NB:
if you do not have save image thumbnails inside MyNovel files checked in
preferences (it is checked by default) then MyNovel only
links to the images. If you move the novel to another computer all of your thumbnails
/ images will be invalidated.
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Add an idea - step 2
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Step 3
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The next stage of the wizard allows you to link to web pages and other files for
research purposes about this new idea. You may have no research yet. You can add
links at any time by selecting the idea after you have created it in the
novel explorer, then looking at the properties of the idea in the
properties window.
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Add a idea - step 3
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Step 4
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The final stage of the wizard allows you to relate this idea to other entities in
your novel - entities being characters, places, things, ideas and events.
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Add a idea - step 4
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Once you have finished, click the finish button. Your idea will be added
to your novel and selected in the novel explorer,
and therefore it's properties will be shown in the properties
window.
To delete an idea or object once you have added it, you need to select the event
in the novel explorer then right-click on it in
the novel explorer to bring up the context menu. For more information see the novel explorer topic.
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