Great start!
I am behind. But the day is still young(ish) in my little cell of the Hive.
You should link your profile. I'll follow you
One of my readers had aptly described him as an onion. The more you peel back the layers, the more you want to cry.Yay for character growth and antagonists that are not villains
Man, this is getting complicated.
Awesome! Well done!
write in that voice, even if it changes from previous writing, try it! Go go go! Yesssss!
Bravo, that's great work!
Maybe a bit random but it's not so long. The chapters are short and meant to be read on mobile. I think I've found the true villian in my story now... man and what a face he's got... eek.
I'm actually writing this book in 2 voices. One is more old world medieval, and one is modern. Because one brother is from a magical world, the other was stuck on Earth as an orphan and grew up on the streets of America. The old world voice takes the longest to write. And I use the Thesaurus a lot.
I have this issue too. In my case, the stressful situations I'm avoiding are different ones from yours, but there is definitely a lot of escapism going on.
It sounds to me like learning how to compile your story directly into a Word document in Scrivener is going to be the simplest (but not easiest) option. Libre Office is another open source word processor that you can try and it is very friendly with MS Word document conversion too.Week #2 of 52, story #2 of 54 is done.
Turned this one in with 2 hours to spare. Which is far too late.
(2 hours before deadline = 1AM in my time zone.)
But the story is done. (Not 100% certain that it has the right ending. But it has an ending. And it's done. At least for now.)
I'm having issues with formatting in my word processor. I don't have MS Word. I use Open Office. Format my stories beautifully in manuscript format. Then save them as Word files. And a page break gets inexplicably added somewhere on the second page. The file looks fine. I save it. Close it. Re-open it. And there's an unasked for page break. I remove the page break. Re-save. Close and open again. Same thing. This always happens at the end of a paragraph. So I have tried removing the offending line break, allowing the two paragraphs where the problem was occurring to run together. But then the problem just occurs after the next paragraph.
Do any of you my fellow Bardic Bees use Open Office? Have you run into an issue like this one?
I have no idea why it's happening. And I need to find a solution soon. (I need to start submitting these stories to pro markets, and they pretty much all want MS Word files.)
I can compile Word docs directly from Scrivener. (Which is the software I use for writing.) So perhaps that is the way to go. It's a bit of a hassle due to all the content in my Scrivener files I don't want included in the compile. And I'd need to figure out how to make Scrivener spit out standard manuscript format. (Which I have not yet learned, due to not using Scrivener to create the manuscript files in the past due to the aforementioned hassle. But likely the best solution is just to teach myself this.) I can always copy just the content I want into a clean Scrivener file and export it from there. (Scrivener even has a template with a manuscript format compile preset in it.)
Anyhow... the first step is to get to a place where I'm actually finishing my stories early enough to have enough time left over to sort this stuff out.
But for now: week #2 is done. Which is a win. And I wrote this story in the same universe as my Perseverance novel-length WIP that I started last year. Which definitely slowed me down because there were a lot of things I needed to look up to make sure I wasn't contradicting world-building I'd already set up. But I loved getting back to these characters and their world, and I expanded that world with some cool new stuff in this story, and I definitely want to write more in this series. So that was a win too.
Thank you.
Thank you. Yes, this is also a possibility.
Yay!
With electronic submissions these days, some markets have moved away from standard manuscript format--so if you are submitting stories yourself, always check the formatting requirements of the specific market you are submitting to. But many still want to see subscriptions in "manuscript format". It means this:
Gotcha and thanks for the article!With electronic submissions these days, some markets have moved away from standard manuscript format--so if you are submitting stories yourself, always check the formatting requirements of the specific market you are submitting to. But many still want to see subscriptions in "manuscript format". It means this:
Classic Manuscript Format | William Shunn
Manuscript format for fiction writers, the way the professionals do it. It's the online formatting guide more editors point to than any other. Created by Hugo and Nebula Award nominated author William Shunn.www.shunn.net
Wow, you are definitely getting the most out of Scrivener! Now that I know more details, it is probably easier to copy and paste into OpenOffice/Google Docs. If you decided to start saving each writing project separately, the compile feature might be more helpful, but then you have the added burden of managing and organizing all of your writing files.
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