Tutorial

Metadata describes or points to other data. In Scrivener, the metadata variable <$author> is the name for a project’s author. In my case, that’d be E D Skinner. There’s also metadata for the name of the current project, <$projectname>. It contains the name of the project-its filename-when it was created.

Introduction

Over thousands of years, storytellers have learned two things about people:

A Simple Book

Let’s say we just want to create a simple book, nothing fancy, with Scrivener. We have three chapters named In The Beginning, The Middle, and It End’th.

For the past several years, I’ve been tasked with taking pictures of the Desert Midwinter competition in Phoenix and I’ve learned a couple of things others might find helpful.

I recently helped a friend set up a website to showcase her writing. We chose WordPress.com for several reasons including the availability of themes that are, in my (and her) opinion, a little more professional looking than what you’ll find at Blogger.

Easier said than done?

Well, this process is what Bullseye shooters do to develop a successful shot plan: We write the steps down, follow those steps and, when something doesn’t work, we figure out how to change that shot plan so we do it right. And then we write down the new shot plan and follow it.

Lemi Shine has been questioned as a cleaning agent for brass because, in some circumstances, it seems to turn the brass pink.

Revised 03/17/2014

Wet cleaning with stainless steel media is better than the dry, vibratory method and takes no additional time – when adjusted for my needs. Obviously, your needs may be different but the approach I took should work for you, too.

Here is a sampling from the first batch, all “many times fired” shells, tumbled according to the vendor’s recipe.