Our first Asengana giveaway – 1940 Corona Flat Top typewriter – is over. We are contacting now the winner and will post updates once is confirmed.
Our first Asengana giveaway – win a 1940 Corona Flat Top typewriter
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An Author, an AI and a Typewriter enter into a bar…
Take the Corona Flat Top typewriter from the 1940s – not just a relic, but a symbol of storytelling’s golden era.
AI research assistant (it doesn’t write the book for you) and platform improvements
The Asengana Research Assistant, powered by Chat GPT, offers a monthly allocation of free tokens to facilitate your research needs.
Asking AI to wear an editor’s hat – Claude vs. ChatGPT4
Claude vs. ChatGPT. Every feedback you can get it will help you in your writing journey. The “AI” will not write in your place, but it will definitely help along the way.
The pen is mightier: the power of writing every day
Writing every day is a powerful tool that can help writers to achieve their goals. Whether you’re an aspiring writer or an established author, making writing a daily habit is an essential step in becoming a successful and productive writer. So, set aside some time each day to write, and experience the benefits for yourself.
Using research notes as a world building process for your novel
As you begin to write your novel, it can be helpful to have all of your notes and research gathered in one place. By using a world-building wiki approach for your book research, you can easily keep track of all the different aspects of the world you are creating. As you add new information, you can simply add it to the appropriate page on your wiki. This will help you to keep your world building consistent and easy to reference as you write. Plus, by making your research available to others, you may even get some helpful feedback that can improve your story. So why not give it a try? You might be surprised at how helpful a world-building Research Notes module can be.
The basic differences between a word processor and a book writing software – the manuscript
There are many factors to consider when choosing the best novel writing software for authors and how the Asengana manuscript module can be a better writing tool than a simple word processor.
Asengana Updates – New Manuscript Menu and one-page editing for Scenes and Chapters
One of the key performance indicators for the improvement of a user interaction is very simple: fewer clicks or fewer pages than before. This is what we did with the current update: create a one-page for editing scenes and chapter details and a simpler more intuitive Manuscript Menu for every book/project.
The Writing Project vs. Book as a Product
Let’s start with DABL – Discovery, Alpha, Beta, Live. This approach to creating a Book as a Product is the way we structured the Asengana writing platform, but you can also use it with or with no writing software.
How to build a free tool for writers – Writing Reminder – the KISS way
Writing Reminder – Our proposed solution was simple to implement for us and accessible by any writer (not only the members of the Asengana Community). Preferences were for daily, weekly, or monthly. Personally, I prefer daily.
Asengana Updates – Manuscript 2.0 and FREE tool: Writing Reminder
Starting with this January 2022, we all roll into production the changes that we’re making based on our research. The first one is a new release for the Manuscript module – 2.0. New navigation and a new delivery approach for writing books will follow as well as more UI (User Interface) improvements.
Setting Your Book Project for Success: use a story template
These templates will help keep your project organized by setting deadlines and managing different tasks in one place. Give Asengana’s free story templates a try!
You can dictate your book with Asengana mobile app
While the dream settings for writing are a quiet, temperature controlled, wall to wall book shelves personal workspace, inspiration comes anywhere.
Major monthly updates – French version is live – August 2021
The French version of the platform is live. This is an important step in the direction we want to go. While there are features we can add to the platform, we got to the moment when the features necessary to write your book are in place.
Major monthly updates – Onboarding – May 2021
When you decide to choose a book writing software, you don’t choose just a tool, you choose a business partner. And this business partner needs to provide you with three things:
Do you want to write a book but don’t know where to start or how to organize your thoughts?
If you are thinking of writing a book, but don’t know where to start or how to organize your thoughts, Asengana’s Story Templates are a great way to get started.
The templates come in three different formats: Novel, Novella, and Short Story – so you can choose the one that best suits your needs! The template will provide an outline for each scene with suggested plot points such as “Inciting Incident” or “Climax” which makes it easy if this is somehow new territory in creating story structure. You can create your project from scratch by entering content into each scene. With these templates, it’s easy to set up your planned Start Date and Finish Date so that you stay on track with your goals!
Major monthly updates – Research Notes – February 2021
Research Notes – You can have the main Notes as world building components – Geography, People, Culture, Economy and others – while detailing each one of them. We also improved on the way the editor is cleaning the content you copy from a website as research. In this one, we used a text from Wikipedia. The images (also ads on the webpage) are automatically removed, leaving the content you need.
Important monthly updates – Distraction Free Writing- January 2021
Distraction Free Writing and the fine line between being detailed oriented when you create a character profile and getting swallowed by the quick sand of never ending nitpicking.
How to manage and overcome the writer’s block with Asengana
Writer’s block is the writer’s most utilized tool of procrastination. Some scream from the rooftops, others just comfort themselves in the solitude of their morning coffee ritual. Writer’s block is real and a tag we stick to many things that aren’t it.
Important monthly updates – Froala – November-December 2020
New writing editor – Froala. The first editor we used for the platform it was simple and functional. We had to decide between developing functionalities for it or use a different one. It was a decision based not only on cost but also based on the wonderful work done by the Froala WYSIWYG HTML Editor team.
Important monthly updates – Character Map – September-October 2020
What if it’s actually a need for connecting with other writers? I’m certain that the writer asking knows she can find the answer online, but it’s more about connecting with your own community, a conversation opener.
Convert all your stories to eBooks (ePub) for FREE with Asengana in 30 days
Let’s assume you have quite a few short stories and novels that you didn’t self-publish yet. With a little love and 30 days of Asengana free access, you could give new life and strengthen your writer online presence.