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Plotters versus Pantsers Plotters plan a story’s major events, then they write using that guide.
Something Broke
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April 28, 2021
A week of intermittent attempts at JT-8 on my ham radio failed to make any contacts.
Introduction WordPress’ WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) view is great for simple posts.
Learning Scrivener
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February 6, 2021
What is Scrivener? Scrivener is a set of computer tools for organizing, writing, editing, and publishing predominantly “text” works.
Metadata describes or points to other data. In Scrivener, the metadata variable <$author> is the name for a project’s author.
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.
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.

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