Last week, we talked about creating a worldbuilding wiki to store information. We started with a simple organizing structure using Word’s file and folders, and a slightly more complicated version using OneNote.
Now we’ll look at Scrivener and some wiki programs.
In this post, I want to talk about worldbuilding wiki-style. That is, a way to be proactive when it comes to taking on a massive project such as a space opera series or fantasy trilogy. But first, I want to talk about the bigger skill writers should learn to acquire, and to do that, I have to take a side path.
I love ceiling fans. They let me move air around quietly with a minimum of dust. They don’t get in the way since they’re attached to the ceiling rather than taking up precious floor or counter-top space. They don’t have to be stored during the off-season, taking up valuable space. They don’t have to be […]
I’m still a bit gob-smacked about this news from the recent Baker Street Irregulars weekend, even though it has nothing to do with me. It’s just that I’ve never personally known a member of that august group of Sherlockian superfans before. The speed of going from a Bacon number from infinite to 1 can be […]
In the long term, you can manipulate the temperature of your home’s interior by adding insulation, weather-stripping, planting trees, reroofing with white shingles, adding glass to let in sun, and installing wood-burning stoves. Doing these things will let you better keep the heat outside or inside (depending on the season) so you and your family […]
Part of the fun of working on the 223B Baker Street series is discovering connections among disparate people. Not a direct link, more like a “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” situation. So this is today’s “Six Degrees of Sherlock Holmes,” in which we find a connection between Holmes, Charles Dickens, and Rudolph Valentino. It passes […]
When you turn your writing into a business, you need productivity hacks. That’s just what happens when your fluffy dreams get smacked by the damp trout of reality. When writing is still a hobby you indulge in when you feel like it, you imagine what it would be like to be granted the freedom to […]
A solar tube is an odd thing to see in the wild. A skylight is obvious: it’s a big, glass-dome-topped hole in your roof that lets the sun shine in without letting in the rest of the great outdoors. Skylights tend to be large; several square feet or more. All that glass means a whole […]
The end of the year is traditionally the time to make New Year’s resolutions. It’s also a time when book marketers encourage authors to invest a lot more of their time in advertising and selling. While I have nothing against this, the extreme focus on marketing over creating good works can be stress-inducing and even […]
The Danielle Steel writing desk is so unique that something should copy the idea and market it to other authors. It is an inalienable need for a writer to find a comfortable space to do the work. It has to be a space that works for that person alone, no matter what anyone else feels […]