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2015 is here, and we are happy to continue sharing inspiring user stories with you. Hope your first days of the year are great and you are ready to unleash

The first case study of 2015: Working on a game with remote team using RealtimeBoard. We interviewed Christopher Means, Project Lead at Fallout: Lonestar, and he shared his experience and thoughts about teamwork and collaboration tools. Enjoy!

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HEY GUYS!

Need a virtual corkboard? I came across realtimeboard.com today, and it’s pretty neat. It’s helping organize my thoughts and goals, and I imagine it’d be a great tool for writers and artists to organize story elements. Just throwing that out there.

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RealtimeBoard as a Writer's Tool for Planning a Story

Last year we were surprised when one special event had started and we got a lot of new users among writers. The event was called NaNoWriMo, and we are happy that we helped a lot of writers to plan their novels and write their 50,000 words in a month. There is not much time to this year event left, so we are happy to share stories from writers who use RealtimeBoard. Hero of this week is Joshua Hendry. He is a writer, and we are happy to share his story and RealtimeBoard tips with you.

Hi Josh, nice to meet you! Can you please tell us about yourself? When and why did you start to write? What is your story?

A seed is dying underground though we yearn to taste its fruit.  The seed of this story was planted in 1997 and has been growing ever since.  Like a musician’s opus the story has many instruments (characters) and layers (motivations and intentions).  The score in process is affecting and affected by each part’s pitch and tone, vibrato and tremolo, entry and exit.  I write because the story is inside me dying to get out.  I write for those who see something similar, feel something similar or want to be on an epic adventure as much as I do.  I write to express emotions about the life we live, the drama, the ecstasy, the challenge, the victory, the defeat, the heartache and the heartbreak of love lost and won.

What visuals mean for the writer?

I am an artist before I am a writer.  I have to plan plan plan ad nauseam to feel my work has a level of competency.  The visuals for me are the easy part, so the challenge is to not use illustration to prop up a weak story.   The story has to be well-structured and meaty for the visuals to have the right effect!  Will that happen with this story?  I hope so.

What project(s) are your working on right now?

The series is called “The Legend Of Harapan”.  Currently, I’m working on the second of a planned 28 books.  It’s titled “The First Race”.

How are you using RealtimeBoard? What are the main cases?

I’m new to RealtimeBoard so I have a workflow hill to climb.  I did not have it for the first book, “Origin” . It is currently my brain organizer for book two and beyond. Glad I found it when I did!

The Legend Of Harapan is cryptic and requires a broad view to ensure all the details are woven together well.  I use RealtimeBoard to help visualize the bigger picture and zoom into the intricacies.

What was the process before RealtimeBoard and what has changed?

The process before was folder after folder in Google Drive or on paper in my studio.  This makes information extremely challenging to track and locate, however I still use them as tools, because so much information still remains in those archives.

What advice could you give to our users? Maybe some productivity tips or something like that?

Play around, see what works for you.  Stay in touch with the development team.  The staff at RealtimeBoard is eager to improve the product and frequently reviews feedback.  Look at what other users are doing and imitate their good work.  Beyond that, I personally love the zoom in zoom out feature.  When zoomed out, you can hover your cursor over blocks of text and they appear at a legible font size.  This is a particularly useful feature for the work I do.

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Writers use RealtimeBoard to help with NaNoWriMo Camp

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New RealtimeBoard video. Learn how to work on you projects and creative ideas visually.

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Valentine's infographic made in RealtimeBoard. Learn more https://realtimeboard.com/blog/create-infographics-realtimeboard-love/

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It’s time to say goodbye to the year of 2013. It was a great time full of creativity, inspiring ideas, new projects, insights and significant updates. There are a lot of great projects made in RealtimeBoard this year, and we’d like to share with you the TOP 5 things people do using endless RealtimeBoard whiteboards.

https://realtimeboard.com/blog/popular-realtimeboard-cases-2013/

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How to become a RealtimeBoard Master: 9 simple steps

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How Creatives Use RealtimeBoard: Distilled

We continue to share the awesome cases from our users. ‘Hero of the week’ is Vicke Cheung, graphic designer from Distilled. Distilled is a creative online marketing company with offices in London, New York and Seattle. Vicke told us a lot of interesting and inspiring things about Distilled values, favorite projects, RealtimeBoard cases at creative company and some productivity tips.

Read the full story here 

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Tim Brown urges designers to think big

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Breaking Bad on RealtimeBoard

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Collaborative timeline made in RealtimeBoard with post its, links and color coding

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So, Nano has started, and I am once again, back in the groove with things. I’ve found a program where I can essentially plot everything out. Yes, that is my book cover. I’m starting from Chapter 9, since most of everything is already written from Chapter 8 and down.

Anyway, I’m color coding it..  Blue - Chapters Green- Parts Red- Scenes Orange - Scene Description I’m sure that there will be other colors later, but this is what I have so far. You are able to zoom in an out, making it extremely detailed without the clutter.

If you are a visual person but also need the text to write.. this is a really good program!  AND IT’S FREE!!

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Firstborn: Elemental Reign #1 is Copyrighted 2013 by SpiritHighway/KimAnu/BlackPanther7 

All of these are the alias’ that I go by for this story: tumblr, wattpad and nano user.

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Welcome to RealtimeBoard, endless online whiteboard for collaboration

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Boards Battle: RealtimeBoard vs Whiteboard