E D Skinner

Fiction, facts, and philosophy

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Interactive Fiction with Twine
Posts
2/23/22

Twine is an editor and converter for IF, Interactive Fiction. Writers use it to create the kind that is text-based as opposed to animated.

2024 Election SNAFU
Posts
2/20/22

According to “Biden vs. Trump: The Makings of a Shattering Constitutional Crisis” the 2024 federal election could shape-up like this.

Where Stories Come From
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1/26/22
It’s not pretty.
What’s a DNS, and Who Cares?
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12/8/21

On the web, we use the names of computers or providers such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Even when you’re using Facebook’s app, it is also using a computer’s name. This is because we remember names much better than numbers.

Which Template?
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9/4/21

When a new idea gets my juices flowing, I want to write it down before it gets away. If I’m at my notebook computer, a new Scrivener project is ideal.

Labels, Labels, and Labels in Scrivener
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7/29/21

If it’s in the Binder, you can assign it a label, but only one label. That seems rather limiting, don’t you think? Well, yes and no. Let’s explore a little bit.

Facebook Censorship
Posts
7/20/21

Facebook has (again) falsely judged a post.

One of my wife’s posts was about her (southern) ancestry. You’ll see it below.

Killing the Earth
Posts
7/11/21

The trees did it long before us.

Robert Carlson’s Ultimate Story Structure Chart
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6/1/21

What’s the Structure?

Robert Carlson created a summary chart of thirteen (13) story structure overviews. Here’s his diagram (saved from a comment at reddit).

Designing for Writing (Plottr then Scrivener)
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5/14/21

Plotters versus Pantsers

Plotters plan a story’s major events, then they write using that guide. (Pantsers, on the other hand, simply jump right in to the writing and “see where it goes.”)