Writing

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.

There’s a Very Good Reason

I started re-reading “The Compile Format Designer” chapter in the Scrivener Manual (Scrivener, Help -> Scrivener Manual, chapter 24) today.

What is WYSIWYG

If you know WYSIWYG, What You See Is What You Get, you’ll remember that it promised to put the same thing on paper that you saw on the screen. That is, whatever your text looked like on the computer’s LCD, that’s what it’d look like on paper.

You may know these adages.

• It’s what you do, not what you say.
• Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
• Seek and ye shall find.
• Actions speak louder than words.
• Practice makes perfect.
• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
• A thing begun is half done.
• Beggars can’t be choosers.
• Better to wear out than to rust out.

Fiction writers have a similar one.

Somebody, somewhere must’ve said, “Life is Growth.”

While we’re alive, we experience change and we learn from it. In the beginning, we start small and grow bigger, learn how to walk, say “Mama,” and run without hitting walls.

The Fifth Estate includes social media, blogs, the internet in general, and all of us.

Several times a week, the Central Phoenix Writers Workshop meets to critique and commiserate.

There’s lots of them, of course: punctuation, word choice, active versus passive voice…