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Where Stories Come From

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Posted on January 26, 2022 by Ed Skinner

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The seed begins in a crack. Its first root pushes downward. Finding soft soil, it extends, or discovering a rock, it goes around. The root forks and each tendril explores, diverts, reaches deeper, and forks again. Real life is like … 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 →

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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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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 →

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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. 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 →

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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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Adverb’s Disease

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Posted on September 22, 2016 by Ed Skinner

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Beware! My writing is afflicted with a horrible disease. Adverb’s Disease shows as weak little words attached to verbs. They add nothing to the story and just take up space and time. A pure waste of ink! Diagnosed by one of the … Continue reading →

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