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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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Why Scrivener Isn’t WYSIWYG

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Posted on December 28, 2020 by Ed Skinner

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I started re-reading “The Compile Format Designer” chapter in the Scrivener Manual (Scrivener, Help -> Scrivener Manual, chapter 24) today. To facilitate some experimentation, I created a dummy project with two chapters and a couple of gobbledegook scenes (Project -> … Continue reading →

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Goodbye WYSIWYG

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Posted on December 27, 2020 by Ed Skinner

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 →

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Rules o’ Ritin’

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Posted on January 28, 2019 by Ed Skinner

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There’s lots of them, of course: punctuation, word choice, active versus passive voice and all that. Here’s one I just figured out: When you’re writing the draft, write the draft. The key point? DON’T EDIT! Just write. Don’t look at … Continue reading →

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NaNoWriMo Approacheth

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Posted on October 12, 2017 by Ed Skinner

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National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is almost here. [Sounds of gnashing teeth, scribbling pencils, fingernails on mouse pads and, most importantly, the repeated sharp “crack” as the slave driver limbers up his whip.] Since 1999, this annual event has helped … Continue reading →

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Serpent’s Smile Rewrite

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Posted on September 29, 2017 by Ed Skinner

Based on reader comments and suggestions, Serpent’s Smile is being re-written. Few people liked the main character. He second guesses himself into inaction, overestimates his abilities, and when he does take action, it’s almost always some dumb idea. Megyn never … Continue reading →

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Serpent’s Smile First Draft No Longer Available

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Posted on September 21, 2017 by Ed Skinner

The first draft of Serpent’s Smile has been removed from this website. My special thanks to all who offered comments and suggestions.

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Serpent’s Smile Is Going Away

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Posted on August 15, 2017 by Ed Skinner

The first draft of Serpent’s Smile will be removed from this website on September 15th. There are several reasons for this. A re-write is now in progress. Commercial book publishers avoid works that are available elsewhere, especially when free. The … Continue reading →

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Printing of Preliminary Edition

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Posted on April 8, 2017 by Ed Skinner

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Printing of the preliminary edition of Serpent’s Smile is underway. This is a limited run, not otherwise available to the general public. Copies are destined for readers with  technical expertise in specific areas–explosives, for example–and to select individuals within the … Continue reading →

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Critical Reader Input

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Posted on January 24, 2017 by Ed Skinner

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Serpent’s Smile has been extensively edited since the first draft appeared here. Several tens of thousands of words have been cut. But writers are myopic; they see only what’s at the end of their nose, and even then they tend … Continue reading →

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