Writing

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.
Goodbye WYSIWYG
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December 27, 2020
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.
Life versus Writing
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September 28, 2020
You may know these adages. It’s what you do, not what you say.

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