Posts by Secespitus
Repetition is not inherently bad Yes, using the same word over and over again is not a good thing, but repeating a word every once in a while can be a good thing. You might want to repeat certain ...
This is a perfectly reasonable way to name your character and introduce the name with a little backstory. Some people will call it cheesy. Some people will say that it lacks originality. But all ...
You know when you are going against the conventions too much when you are feeling forced to go against the conventions just for the sake of going against the conventions. The work then starts to ...
If those topics are necessary a-priori knowledge to understand your reasoning then you should expect your readers to know the basics. If you can't expect them to know what you are talking about t...
The main problem will likely be that your readers should like your protagonist - you want them to read a whole series with him as the main character after all. If the character you like suddenly wi...
Yes - but it's a difficult market and you might want to check out similar genres The traditional book market is likely declining in many aspects, but there are many similar types of media that are...
"Wooow!" they marvelled. To marvel is the word that comes to my mind in this case. But in general you should realize that often it's not that important to find the one word to describe some...
Most of the time you don't want to find the one word that describes this - because if it's so hard for you to come up with this one word, chances are it's hard for your audience to understand the w...
In my opinion Release Notes should be written in a technical style, focused on the technical implications of the most recent changes. This makes them sort of a mix between the two worlds - you want...
If there is such a huge time difference and there are no big temporal skips in the rest of the book this would likely be a good prologue. Because of the difference this would feel to the reader lik...
You would do this by mentioning the things he always has to do, preferrably in a dialogue or in a monologue from the character themselves if there are no others around. Random Person 1: "Hey, ...
In case you are starting from scratch and are free to choose whichever form you like you should have a look at the excellent answer from Monica Cellio. But: in case you are in an established compa...
I have read/played a couple of "Choose your own adventure"-style book and am interested in the process of creating one. Where can I find (preferrably free) online resources, such as How-To-Write o...
Religion, time and blackmailing Have your world feature a religion that forbids the use of certain kinds of magical practices that would use your loopholes. The in-universe explanation would be th...
What you are lacking seems to be a bit of empathy and different points of view in this scenario. You are assuming everyone shares the same opinion about this topic: Women will have a baby at one ...
Nobody can tell whether people will be willing to read your blog There is no way to tell. First of all they have to like Blogs. Not everybody likes the style, some people prefer reading mostly boo...
The more decisions to make in the game, the better - focus on the risk Describe each decision the character makes in detail. What is the most useful move your character could make in this moment? ...
The only stylistic problem is that a quote is supposed to be an exact reproduction of something that has been said or written by someone. If you look at academic writing for example it would be unf...
I am going to refer you to a question on WorldBuilding.SE: What software is available for keeping and organising notes about your world?, specifically the accepted answer: It sounds like what y...
If you want to refer to an object with a male or female pronoun because using "it" doesn't feel right, then there is nothing wrong with it - it's your decision as the author and only you can know w...
No, there is no software that would automate the translation of newly written paragraphs for you This is not something you would normally do. You might think that you are "going in one straight pa...
Looking at companies that offer to print and laminate books you can find out what typical paper stocks are used. For example the site printabook.ca mentions: 300gsm art stock (option for glos...
To expand on the comment from Lew from this page: Scrivener does not allow you to play gifs directly, neither in your research folder, nor when embedded in a page. I've looked through a few sites...
This is not intended behaviour. The zoom function should work the way you were expecting it to work. This is simply a bug. If you see such a behaviour and it is not solved by closing and restarti...
Ulysses does not support placeholders directly and there are no simple shortcuts that would create a placeholder. You would have to use your own implementation. For things to keep track of when u...
