Two devs with day jobs

The Allegoris team works to create apps for writers. At the same time we're dealing with day jobs and theses, so Tumblr is the only social media we're using.

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Allegoris collaborates with writers to aid them in gaining perspective on their work and maximize their efforts. Feedback and opinion is as vital to us as that of editors and beta readers is for writers.

Cuer is a mobile app designated to help writers (especially newbies) brainstorm and plan their stories through cues that prompt research.

Allegoris collaborates with writers to aid them in gaining perspective on their work and maximize their efforts. The feedback and opinion is as vital to us as that of editors and beta readers is for writers.

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Purpose of survey

App description and purpose

Poll/Survey options

Purpose of survey

The app is still in our folders, for now.

We have exhausted our own knowledge and skills, and are in need of more team members to complete this project. Labor and efforts deserve to be compensated, so we need funds. Getting funds is a serious matter, so before proceeding we have decided to see if there is actually any interest in this app and willingness to help it come along. This survey will help us see what path could be best for us to take.

App description and purpose

Cuer's mechanism relies on the user choosing topics (ranging from geography to society to characters to language etc) and a time interval (one day to a week), then having the app send a "cue", a push notification related to the chosen topics;

Opening the app will allow you to see the current cue throughout the chosen interval;

The user can pause and restart the app;

We're still debating ideas on how to handle cues already prompted, but we'll likely have a list somewhere.

The goal is for the writer to take notice of and research about different elements that will help them shape their story, without having to spend time looking around to even realize those elements and their details exist. Topics can also include pacing, structuring, editing, burnout/writer's block etc. We're still deliberating on how to make already-sent cues still available (of course you could always write them down somewhere).

Example: for the topic "Characters", a cue would be "what is its fatal flaw?" which prompts the writer to research fatal flaws and brainstorm the ones for their characters.

This app does not do the work for you as the writer. It is your ideas, your efforts and your methods that create a unique story, and that can't be substituted–but it can be helped by relieving the stress of getting one's bearings.

Why then wouldn't we just sell a list of "cues"? Why these temporary prompts?

The spark of Cuer comes from a writer, actually.

"I wanted to have someone else help me by telling me what to do, lift some of the responsibility. After a while handling worldbuilding, it grates on me that I need to come up and think about everything and know about everything I have to look for. I know research is like 50% of a writer's job, but after a while I run out of spoons to give. A notif once in a while telling me 'Hey have you considered this' wouldn't be bad." [Asked to remain anonymous]

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Thank you for helping, and remember to reblog to help us reach as many writers as possible :) In the meantime, if you want to help us fill the cues database, you can share your knowledge tidbits, best tips and such through this form.

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