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In preparation for writing the next book in my Ravages of Honor series, I’m re-reading books one through three. I’m doing so for several reasons, mostly for continuity, but also to refresh my memory.
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Scenes First, Chapters Last
Chaptering my novel is one of the very last things I do because chaptering has nothing to do with structure or story. Chaptering is a convenience thing more than anything else. The real unit that matters is the scene. After that, the Act. C...
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Some groupies were cheering the idea of homemade films where they could make Star Trek characters do the things they want them to do and say the things they want them to say. Never mind that fan-fic already does this, and both fan-fic and f...
Why I Love Scrivener’s Snapshots
In a previous post I mentioned that one of the reasons I don’t use the iOS version of Scrivener is because it’s not as robust as I need it to be. One of the Mac version features I absolutely love is the Snapshots, and I was asked “what’s th...
Part 2-I Tried Notion, Obsidian, Aeon, and World Anvil. I Came Back to Scrivener.
After trying separate codices, Notion, Obsidian, World Anvil, and Aeon Timeline, I finally settled on a system that works with the way I actually write.
Last time (link to part 1) I walked you through building the codex via cross-linking s...
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