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Posts by Secespitus‭

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Q&A What software/techniques do people use to gather ideas?

Use a wiki Many people are using a wiki when they are creating their worlds, as can be seen by this answer to the question What software is available for keeping and organising notes about your wo...

posted 6y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Meta Hierarchical tags are now available

That's an awesome feature and I see quite a few tag families that could profit from being officially recognized as such. Here are some more points that might be relevant to a discussion about this ...

posted 4y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Secespitus‭

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Q&A How do I approach rewriting an entire user guide in an agile environment?

A user guide is an important result related to your final product and should be treated as such. If the software that is being detailed is in development you you obviously can't know everything tha...

posted 4y ago by Secespitus‭

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Q&A Choice of words on writing

Having your own "voice" shine through your writing is important in order to make your reader remember you. If you read through your favourite books and favourite blogs you will find that every auth...

posted 4y ago by Secespitus‭

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Q&A How do I get beta readers?

Family and friends are not ideal beta readers, not only because they are more interested in preserving their relationship with you personally, but also because they are not necessarily your target ...

posted 4y ago by Secespitus‭

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Q&A Handwriting speed

Finding tips on writing fast You can find much information on the internet about increasing your handwriting speed, but when searching for such information you should be careful about potential do...

posted 4y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Secespitus‭

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Q&A How should I document a database schema?

While the other answers already mention tools to create graphical presentations of your tables / columns and ways to add short information to that, for example by creating an HTML table with an emp...

posted 4y ago by Secespitus‭

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Q&A Job description for my employment reference

In what context did you work? Those interfaces have probably been in the context of a certain topic. What kind of software did you analyze and optimize? Was it financial software? Something in the...

posted 5y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Can I bring back Planetary Romance as a genre?

What did you think the term was supposed to mean when you first came across it? You only found the term "[e]arlier this year" and you are writing a story in that genre. You are far more knowledge...

posted 5y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How many blank lines before scene headings (and secondary scene headings) using Amazon Storywriter

Two blank lines - be consistent! You asked the same question on some other, more specialised, sites, so I am looking through them and some others to consolidate the knowledge here for future reade...

posted 5y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Tiptoe or tiphoof? Adjusting words to better fit fantasy races

Doing something like this occasionally can be pretty entertaining, but if be careful when inventing new words: too many new words can make your book hard to read. If the people in your world inven...

posted 5y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to collect scattered ideas on various topics in to a blog post/ writing article?

You don't necessarily need to focus on one topic. Many blogs are about one specific topic and use that to attract their readers, but there are also other types or blogs that are more focused on you...

posted 5y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to do a global find and replace in Ulysses

You can't use the global search for a global "search and replace" As this deleted answer states you can find the official documentation here. It doesn't mention this function, only the "Search for...

posted 5y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A What's next when it comes to poems?

The next step would be to get a wider audience. Having people on Facebook and YouTube that read your stuff is already pretty good. Many people also have a Blog where they post their stuff. You coul...

posted 6y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Rewriting User Guides as Stories

You are referencing rule books for RPGs, so I am going to base my answer on those as examples, because I know the fascination of reading those books without playing the corresponding games. There...

posted 6y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How many points are sufficient for my essay?

A very generic guideline that is often used is to have three arguments/aspects/... This is often structured in the form of a Five-Paragraph-Essay where you have one paragraph that you use to introd...

posted 6y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to make side-characters look competent next to the chosen one?

You need to think about your protagonists weaknesses – now! If your protagonist is simply above and beyond everything and everybody else it will get really, really boring. Your character needs som...

posted 6y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A What are the signs of accidental self insertion?

You should make a list of the most important conflict points that your character will have to face throughout the book. It's important to be able to tell beforehand roughly which problems your char...

posted 6y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Any software for video game non-linear story design?

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...

posted 6y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Slow buildup vs sudden introduction

The way you describe them they are not different You mention that one of the options is about building up small steps, hinting at the fact that he will unlock something. The other option is abou...

posted 6y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Multiple ways to emphasise words

There are a couple of ways that you could utilize, but changing the style often comes with problems. Some of these problems you have already encountered: bold text is very nice to draw attention...

posted 6y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Should I describe a person or a room first?

Most of the time you will want to set the scene first In general you will want to describe whatever is stationary first so that the readers mind will be focused on whatever is supposed to be impor...

posted 6y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How to link two sentences?

You should add a but after the comma Anyone can use stock footage, but only you know how to use it correctly. Reading a but basically makes people ignore most of what has been said before and...

posted 6y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Working with hints/clues - Show vs Tell vs Nothing -ish

You switched your style without having any reason to do so - just continue showing this via the characters thoughts It's the first time your characters encounters this reocurring thing. Just descr...

posted 6y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Is it a bad idea to mix psychological horror with action?

You should focus on one aspect and make it available in slightly augmented form in the other phases, too - or simply think about whether you really need those two parts The problem is that you are...

posted 6y ago by Secespitus‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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