Writing Craft
Show, Don't Tell, But Why?Post
January 30, 2024
Being EditedPost
October 6, 2023
Pournelle and Heinlein Writing AdvicePost
July 19, 2023
Where Stories Come FromPost
January 26, 2022
What’s the Structure?
Robert Carlson created a summary chart of thirteen (13) story structure overviews. Here’s his diagram (saved from a comment at reddit).
Plotters versus Pantsers
Plotters plan a story’s major events, then they write using that guide. (Pantsers, on the other hand, simply jump right in to the writing and “see where it goes.”)
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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.
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January 27, 2021
Introduction
Over thousands of years, storytellers have learned two things about people:
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December 31, 2020
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.
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December 28, 2020
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.