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Facebook Censorship

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Posted on July 19, 2021 by Ed Skinner

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Facebook has (again) falsely judged a post. One of my wife’s posts was about her (southern) ancestry. You’ll see it below. But Facebook instantly said it is in violation of their standards. Exactly what they object to, however, is not … Continue reading →

Posted in Censorship | Tagged Facebook | Leave a reply

Killing the Earth

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Posted on July 11, 2021 by Ed Skinner

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The trees did it first. They polluted the air with toxic gas, devoured simple minerals and bound them up in complicated molecules that, after eons, rotted into vile tar and oil. Oxygen, petroleum, waste from them permanently changed our planet. … Continue reading →

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Robert Carlson’s Ultimate Story Structure Chart

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Posted on June 1, 2021 by Ed Skinner

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This shouldn’t be lost. Robert Carlson created a summary chart of thirteen (13) story structure overviews. Here’s his diagram (saved from a comment at reddit). Across the top, note the Act I, Act II (parts A and B), and Act … Continue reading →

Posted in Writing | Tagged Seven Point System, Writing Craft, Writing Process | Leave a reply

Designing for Writing (Plottr then Scrivener)

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Posted on May 14, 2021 by Ed Skinner

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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.”) I’ve mentioned the Seven Point System in other posts. For additional … Continue reading →

Posted in Writing | Tagged Plottr, Scrivener, Seven Point System | 4 Replies

Something Broke

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Posted on April 27, 2021 by Ed Skinner

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A week of intermittent attempts at JT-8 on my ham radio failed to make any contacts. Not a single one. JT-8 is computerized ham radio encoding for low power contacts. In simplified terms, the computer transmits tiny parts of a … Continue reading →

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From Scrivener to WordPress [Blog]

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Posted on February 20, 2021 by Ed Skinner

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Introduction WordPress’ WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) view is great for simple posts. With it, I can dash off a few paragraphs, throw in an image or two, emphasize some words and bold-face others, and hit Publish. … Continue reading →

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Learning Scrivener

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Posted on February 6, 2021 by Ed Skinner

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Scrivener is for big writing such as novels and non-fiction books. It is also wonderful with briefer works such as short stories, blog posts, and things that start small but might later bloom. To cope with the big works, Scrivener … Continue reading →

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All Metadata in Scrivener

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Posted on February 3, 2021 by Ed Skinner

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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 … Continue reading →

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Storylines in Scrivener

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Posted on January 27, 2021 by Ed Skinner

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Introduction Over thousands of years, storytellers have learned two things about people: They listen, read, or watch stories as escape from their lives, and They will sympathize with characters who fight and defeat powerful enemies, or that fight but succumb … Continue reading →

Posted in Writing | Tagged Scrivener, Seven Point System, Writing Craft | 8 Replies

A Simple Book in Scrivener

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Posted on December 31, 2020 by Ed Skinner

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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. In the first chapter, we have two scenes, one to get the action … Continue reading →

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