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Hey so our production team talked about this...
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You are speaking of a theoretical. The original post led me, and others here I think, to read it as something that actually happened to...
Nov 14, 2025
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What inspired you to write?
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Like others here, I write because there is no option not to write. I've been doing it all my life, though for most of it I was pretty...
Nov 14, 2025
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Careful with your research
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Related to Karlin's point about secondary sources, I would draw a wide and bright line between scholarly secondary sources and YouTube...
Nov 12, 2025
skip.knox
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Careful with your research
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Using only the AI summary for your research is not the fault of AI, it's the fault of the researcher. Historians are taught to consult...
Nov 12, 2025
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!?!
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It definitely depends--on genre, audience, etc.--but I received some advice in graduate school that I took to heart and I believe it has...
Nov 12, 2025
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marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published
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Zen Cho is based in Birmingham in the United Kingdom but the book was published in the United States. It was written in English except...
Nov 11, 2025
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We also use OneNote to keep track of our very large Urban Fantasy series, and basically everything else. If you have Microsoft 365 you...
Nov 7, 2025
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That's pretty much how things unfolded for me, though, I did buy an old-old Mac for $150, and used that for a year or so just for...
Nov 7, 2025
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How Can I Keep My Writing Ideas in One Place Without Losing My Flow?
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I used yWriter too! Somehow we just never fully clicked and I moved over to Scrivener. It was like yWriter had the right idea but fell...
Nov 5, 2025
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I use Scrivener. It basically it can ball up the story text and all the different notes and odds and ends into one project. I also keep...
Nov 5, 2025
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How Can I Keep My Writing Ideas in One Place Without Losing My Flow?
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This question gets complicated rather quickly. If you use an online resource, can you access it offline as well? If offline, then you...
Nov 4, 2025
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My favorite free resources
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I just discovered this one: World Wide Words. World Wide Words: Full index to World Wide Words This site has been around since 1996...
Nov 3, 2025
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Scrivener Software: to use or not?
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Yes to the supplementary material. I routinely set up a project with folders for Front Matter, Back Matter, and Marketing. The latter...
Oct 31, 2025
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I’ve recently purchased Scrivner and with a modicum of patience and some tedious poking around, I’m completely enjoying and...
Oct 31, 2025
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Does anyone know where I can get stats for city populations in years past?
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It's exceedingly difficult to say what lead to losses in particular places. We simply don't have the right kind of records. Populations...
Oct 28, 2025
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