This site used to be about my writing and game design career.
Now it is just about my (now retired) writing software.
If you are curious about what I’m up to currently please check out my blog at brentknowles.com

I was asked recently how to export a bunch of notes from a StickIt (say brainstorming notes) into a single file. Here’s how.
1. Add a storyboard to the StickIt Page
2. Add the notes to the storyboard
3. Select the notes you want to export on the storyboard and right-click.
4. Choose the EXPORT SELECTED option
5. This will open a full-screen text window [...]

This blog is primarily for Brent Knowles’ writing software. His writing and game design blog is at www.brentknowles.com.
Thanks and sorry for any confusion!

Overview
The biggest change from 8.2 to 8.3 is the addition of the new Dashboard, informally known as the Dashboard-flex. This Dashboard combines all the features available in the old Dashboard and the Index/Table of Contents, in a new, more convenient manner.
The Dashboard-flex sits on the side of the screen (easy to move to the [...]

Just realized today that links to the YourOtherMind help and demo videos are broken.
They are now fixed and all the movies should work again.

Just a quick (and last) reminder that my writing, reviews, and game design posts have been moved to http://blog.brentknowles.com/ as described in this post.
YourOtherMind writing features, tips and articles will continue to be found on this blog.

After working many years with BioWare, much of those being spent helping to design tools that writers use, I’ve gained a fair bit of experience with understanding how creative types, create. As a writer myself, I’ve often used my own experience to help guide tool development and even created my own writing platform YourOtherMind . [...]

One of the highlights of placing in the Writers of the Future Contest is that my winning story will have an illustration created for it by one of the winners of the Illustrators of the Future contest. I can’t wait to see what part of/character(s) in the story will be illustrated.
I have been lucky though [...]

Thanks to Tom Waters, a Writers of the Future finalist and up and coming writer for his review of the On Spec issue in which my story “From the Sea” appeared. His rating system is quick and to the point and he gave “From the Sea” a four out of five star rating. Yay!
You can [...]

Just wanted to send some shoutouts to writers who have recently made cool story sales:
Adam Colston “The Quanta of Art” to Intergalatic Medicine Show
Tony Pi has sold “The Curse of Chimère” to Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Tom Crosshill “Sandra Plays for the Cast-iron Man” to Flash Fiction Online
Jason S. Ridler has sold “Waltzing the Tempest” to Not [...]