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If you are writing a story that requires its own world—maybe a science fiction world in a strange galaxy far, far away or a fantasy world from another era—this is the book for you!
The Planet Construction Kit may sound like it’s all about astronomy and planets and moons, but although the book also addresses these aspects of worldbuilding, it takes up so much more. Continue reading ”The Planet Construction Kit” by Mark Rosenfelder
“Writing Fiction for Dummies” is written by Randy Ingermanson, a writer who has published six novels and received a number of prizes. In addition, he is a physicist.
It can be easy to be scared away because this is a “for Dummies” book. Maybe I’m a “Dummy,” but I like this book!
Continue reading “Writing Fiction for Dummies,” by Randy Ingermanson
I discovered the “View > Go To”-menu in Scrivener a little while ago and I’m realizing it is really making navigating a large project easy.
I’m outlining/world building on a pretty massive scale, so most of the time the binder has so many folders open if I were to print it out it would probably reach from floor to ceiling (the manuscript currently contain 1660 documents and folders, but hey, it’s a bunch of worlds, several bunches of characters and hopefully a bunch of books…)
The binder just does not work for this kind of project (I am fairly certain it will for a book project though… I pray those will be much smaller!)
Instead, I use the “View > Go to”-menu to move around the project.
Super easy to find what you want!
Although, it won’t bring structure to a chaotic project, so some order is possibly still needed…
Either you can go directly into the project’s main folders (bottom half of the menu) or if you have favorite documents or folders (top part of the menu) go into them directly.
Folders can be expanded all the way to the document level, but you can also select one to view in the active editor as a cork board, an outline or scrivenings depending on the editor settings (you may have to change editor mode to get something out of selecting a folder).
If you need to find your selected folder or document in the finder, you select “View > Reveal in Binder” or click the icon at the top of the editor and select the option from the context menu:
Notice how there’s a “Go To” menu here as well? It works the same as the “View > Go To”-menu, unless you’re in scrivenings mode. Then it shows the documents in the “scrivening” instead.
Scrivener 3 Update: In Scrivener 3 the “Go To”-menu has been moved to a new main section called “Navigate” and it has been expanded to include Collections. However the access to bookmarks (now correctly named bookmarks even in this menu) has been made a bit more complex in that not all
– I’m having a huge problem!
– No?
– Yeah. My kid is following a negative character arc!
– Damn! I’m sad to hear it!
Linguistic irony: when someone tries to correct your grammar and spells it “grammer”!
I was once in an employment interview with a recruiter from one of Sweden’s largest recruiting companies. She asked a question that made me speechless; “recount everything you’ve done since you left high school.”
Being a hero sucks; wherever I go there’s conflict and drama and whatever I try to do there’s always complications! And it’s all because of these pompous authors! I hate them!
It started almost ten years ago. I had an idea. Or actually I only had an image:
“The Imperial Garden.” An oasis in a giant metropolis, with climbing greenery, a waterfall, birds, and a lonely person, on a bridge.
It would be a science fiction story, maybe a little erotic too, or a lot? Or maybe a few fantasy elements? Mixes are usually appreciated – if they succeed…
Continue reading I’m putting up fences in the creative wilderness…
I work with installing and configuring software products. The following “documentation” on backup procedures for an imaginary software system called “Wolfram Idea Management” came to me in the half asleep/half awake stage just after waking up, but kind of before realizing it has happened.
And, no, I hope this has never happened for real! If there is a Wolfram Idea Management system out there, any likeness to that system is coincidental even if per chance the following document could have been ripped out of that software package’s manual pages – then any likenesses are still just coincidental. I’m just that good! (No I do not work with a system called Wolfram… Although the phrase “backing up concerned files” do come from work…)
Backing up concerned files
Important! Important! Important! Important! Important! Important! Important!
ONLY RUN THE PREPACKED BACKUP COMMAND IN WOLFRAM® WHEN BACKING UP FILES!
The command is named “calli-fuckyou-fornia-dream.exe“
For the long explanation read the below text.
Important! Important! Important! Important! Important! Important! Important!
Please! Please! Please! Read the whole document before you backup the system!
IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU DO READ THE WHOLE DOCUMENT BEFORE YOU BACKUP THE SYSTEM!
Tautology, anyone?
He could feel the room being charged with tension so palpable that the air felt electric.
Sometimes there’s an accident by the keyboard. This one came jumping at me (although it was originally in Swedish…)
