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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
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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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I started re-reading “The Compile Format Designer” chapter in the Scrivener Manual (Scrivener, Help -> Scrivener Manual, chapter 24) today. Note: The steps and screenshots that follow are for Scrivener 3.2.2 on a MacBook running MacOS Big Sur 11.2. If you … Continue reading
If you know WYSIWYG, an abbreviation for 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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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Several decades ago, my employer moved us and several other families from Memphis to Phoenix. Arizona was, and still is, a very different place. It’s been a state since only 1912, just barely a hundred years, and while you won’t … Continue reading
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With today’s “social media,” opinions and frustrations pull some people together while pushing others away. The net effect is a greater polarization of society, not less. Facebook, Twitter, and the like divide us; because of our human nature, they foster factions … Continue reading
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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. Why? Because … Continue reading
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The Fifth Estate includes social media, blogs, the internet in general, and all of us. Estates One, Two, and Three The first “three estates” describe the social hierarchy in medieval times. It consisted of the clergy, nobility, and commoners. But … Continue reading
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Found this at auction for $15. No name plate and nothing to that effect inside. It powers on and there’s a trace, but definitely needs help. If I can identify the make and model, I can they try to get … Continue reading