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Scrivener is extremely customizable, and while that makes it flexible to meet the requirements of different writers, it can make for a daunting learning curve. As I've tinkered in the many settings, I've landed on a way ...

Outlining in Scrivener

On writing

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Hardly Hardy, 25/09/13 (Apologies to Thomas.) Alongside a cup of tea, Removed from my vanity Of making plans to use her, stilly couches she. A chassis, ultra thin, Of gracefully etched Aluminium, Does little ...

Hardly Hardy (Backup your work!)

On writing, Projects

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  Some great behind-the-scenes pics here. Famous Scifi And Fantasy Authors In Their Workspaces.   Me? Two large monitors, rotated into portrait mode, so I can have two large Scrivener workspaces! ...

Famous Scifi And Fantasy Authors In Their Workspaces

On writing, Projects

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  Elmore Leonard Wrote Great Opening Lines. Here Are All Of ...

Elmore Leonard Wrote Great Opening Lines. Here Are All Of Them.

On writing

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Insightful article by the inestimable novelist Dan Simmons, on learning to write well, starting with the tips of Mark Twain: "The people in the story shall be alive, except in the case of the corpses, and the reader ...

Dan Simmons on writing, and Mark Twain.

On writing

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While going through the learning curve of experimenting with different approaches to the scriptwriting process to see what works for you, one of the challenges of becoming a writer is becoming aware of how your mind ...

A writer’s life – Screenwriting Software

On writing, Projects

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There are a number of techniques for elevating your story throughout the scriptwriting process, but one of the most powerful is component substitution at the concept level. Putting it a different way, is your current High ...

Is your Hero really the Hero?

On writing, Projects

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One of the big challenges to writing is getting meaningful ideas to flow. Sure, you can generate ideas at any time, but there's something about triggering a level of alpha state, and allowing connections to form in a more ...

A writer’s life – Soundtracks

On writing, Soundtracks

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  Looking forward to this, though still working on ProSeries lessons as well, and completing first draft, but it's all for the good! :-) Thoughts on the course in a later post. Craft: The Coen Brothers and ...

Yay! SMC Coen Brothers Storytelling Class starts today

On writing, Projects