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Devil’s eggs? Fascinating links in a San Francisco classic
Go back to the Gold Rush, when eggs cost enough to kill for. Believe it or not, this high cost led to one of San Francisco’s classic dishes!
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How to create subscenes in Scrivener
How to configure a Scrivener project to build scenes from subscenes. And just what is a scene anyway?
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Naturalistic fantasy: a light touch for weighty tales
My work-in-progress novel, A Philosophy of Air, fits into the sub-genre naturalistic fantasy, which does not yet exist. I’ll define this sub-genre and why I think it’s an area ripe for new stories.
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Crossing the chasm: a leap of faith with your audience
Stories are innately more enjoyable when you trust your audience to cross a mental chasm: to draw the connections without being instructed on how to do so.
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Stuck: how to break free when your story snags
When your story gets stuck, try using the most basic of tricks to get unstuck: return to the fundamentals of the Process-Oriented approach.
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