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I downloaded a .mobi file format book from Baen it opens fine on Calibre, and on my Kindle keyboard. When I try to open it on my Kindle Paperwhite I get this message Error An error occurred...
Or is there a way to strike a balance between thematic naming and realistic naming? Thematic: When the name relates to the character directly. Example: someone who only wears black clothes has th...
There are many factors that would affect what names would work better for your characters. First, is the character using a name, nickname or pseudonym? A nickname would be given for some reason, a...
I'm a strong believer in genre being largely a thing that's used for marketing, an easy shorthand for book stores to know where to place your book and sell it better. It's also, unfortunately, a sh...
articy:draft from Nevigo The software is specifically designed for writing in a software development environment. It has things like asset management so that you can manage all your characters wit...
Preface: What the Snowflake method [SFM] doesn't provide. I have added this after my main post, to make this explicit. In SFM Step 3, you decide upon your main characters motivation, goal, conflic...
If you don't want to research the history directly, you may want to look into the historiography -- how the history of something is studied/understood. Often that is why we supermoderns laugh at...
I would take this as an expression of what I think of as knowing the difference between history and story. Every story is embedded in a history. A history is a sequence of event connected by causal...
I imagine that you Master Thesis is about something, which is presented in a consequential manner. I would take the same order in which you describe your work and write the state of the art, point ...
I'm curious about the "properness" of using shortened links (a la bit.ly or tinyurl) in research papers. I haven't been able to find any sort of definitive reference about whether or not this is ac...
Looking back at my own writing, my recommendation is: You'll have to find out yourself. There are two main directions writing can take, often called "outline" and "no outline". The no outline app...
Full confession: I read cookbooks like novels. The best cookbooks, in my opinion, are those with great descriptions of the recipe that turn it into a story. History of the recipe or the ingredien...
I have used source control in documentation for several reasons besides multiple writers working on the same file. Some other uses are: Tracking and communicating changes Deploying documentation ...
My advice is to ignore the people that advocate writing a book in one month, or two, or three. Even with no other duties, it takes me at least six months to finish my fifth draft of a book, and I ...
You might be shooting yourself in the foot. This likely depends on high personal productivity of the author, and if you cannot sustain the pace, I think you will lose whatever audience you gather....
It is sad but true that without strict enforcement of anti-piracy laws, and in the absence of broad cultural perceptions that consider the act of acquiring and reading a pirated ebook as either cri...
I want your opinion on this: For about half a year now I've researched my novel. Because of situating the story to the part of an original Earth's history, I made my research about history, demogr...
I would not write the history. The history is background and setting; some of that will necessarily come out in the first ACT (about 25% of the story) and more can be revealed in the rest of the bo...
I think you need logic to support that claim, it is not the type of thing that can be studied. (Or you might find that kind of logic in academic philosophy.) The logic is, you find it self-evident...
I plan to write an alternate history story that eventually leads to Texas taking up most of the area that otherwise would have been the USA. It starts with the European side of things, in particula...
Let me challenge your premise. You say you're writing alternative history. Usually, alternative history has one point of divergence from real history, and the effects of this divergence are explore...
I think you need to do light research, unless you already know the answers. For example, suppose you thwart the assassination of JFK (Stephen King already wrote that book). We know what happened (...
Yes, this is commonly called "Alternate History" To cite from Wikipedia: Alternate history or alternative history (Commonwealth English), sometimes abbreviated as AH, is a genre of fiction con...
It's complicated. An indie writer who mostly does their own marketing winds up taking on two jobs -- writing new books, and marketing them. Although these can feel related, they're very, very dif...
The main challenge of having multiple writers is dealing with conflicts -- either you have to lock files to prevent concurrent edits (as Word does), or you need a way to compare and merge changes. ...
