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Chapter 23 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on : https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city

After some initial violence, Nicole and Bevna discuss the terms for their coming duel, in which Bevna demands ownership of Jigsaw City, if she wins.

Recognizing Bevna as a separate personality, Nicole demands that if she wins, Bevna will give allow Ustrina control...

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I've been searching high and low for a practical guide to using LibreOffice for typesetting books, and I'm surprised there isn't much information out there, which is not a youtube video. Glad to have stumbled upon this by @lydiaconwell But reading through it I wonder why @libreoffice doesn't make inbuilt templates for this? It is just about playing around with styles, but I guess many people might find it useful if there is a template already.
https://www.psychicdrool.site/formatting-an-ebook/

"What's hard is hearing the laughter from the [writers'] room down the hall and not being able to go in. If you've ever been lucky enough to be in that room, you will always want to be in that sound."

-- Stephen Colbert's acceptance speech at the WGA awards last week

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Hearing him say this really hit me with how much I do miss that right now.

Because I've been in that room. Not his writers' room, not in anything close. There are many of this room, up and down the scale, for audiences as few as tens to hundreds to thousands to millions.

I've been mostly in rooms for audiences of hundreds; a few times lucky enough for audiences of thousands.

And let me tell you: when it's a good room, there really isn't much else like it.

10/3: Antagonist POV: Imagine you achieved your goal. What’s next?
Perriad: I DID achieve my goal… but they took it away again before I could really begin to make a difference. They’re not going to give me another chance so it’s pointless ‘imagining’.
Author’s note: in the timeline of the next book, Perriad is deceased and there is no individual ‘antagonist’ to take her place.

Sometimes fixing your writer's block isn't about changing your writing, it's about changing your perspective. Do something to change your perspective. Go for a walk. Enjoy some life. Think differently. Then come back and write your story. - Wrtr

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Day 9. If you need to share an important piece of history/lore, what’s your approach that avoids infodumping?

Through dialogue, usually with someone who doesn't know the information. Or relaying information WHILE something is happening, integrate it into the scene.

Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/JigsawCity

Nicole’s brain is slowly being taken over by an ancient, magical artifact, a small fragment of a magic city. She seeks a cure, before the city can destroy her sanity and then eventually, take her life by replacing her mind. Racing against time, she gathers pieces of the city, hoping to find an answer among them.

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(Left) The cover of Jigsaw City, by Owen Tyme. The background is a futuristic city of sky scrapers covered in greenery, with water ways in place of some streets. The background has been divided by dark lines that cut it up, into a jigsaw puzzle. The foreground is a hexagonal coin with an indentation in the center that follows the same shape, with raised lines forming a hexagram in the center, which has a smaller one turned at a ninety-degree angle inside the hexagon at the center of it. The smaller hexagram has another inside it, a pattern that repeats until the lines become so fine and indistinct, they blend together. (Right) There's a pool of lava at the base of a rocky slope, with some sharp rocks sticking upward out of it and the following text over the top: “I’m immune to heat and fire. I can easily carry and protect one of you…” “Ye’d need to deliver an army to make a difference, not one person!” “I *am* an army.” (Bottom) https://books2read.com/JigsawCity

Marketing scams aimed at writers via email are on the uptick. Here’s the latest list of scammers: Hari singh <Harisingh963@outlook.com> Komal via amazonses.com

Good morning, today is a day of another writing month and I'm ready.

Last week I started up the rewrite of chapter 2 of the adventure novel. The scenes are all there in essence, so the work is to refine them so they build character, setting, plot, and theme, that each scene asks and answers a question (not necessarily the same one). A lot of my downtime between writing is re-playing the scene over and over in my head. I slow it down, find the details that matter and write them in, find the details that don't and write them out.

This is the last chapter before the protagonist leaves "home" and goes on his adventure. Here, there are characters who don't reappear until the very end, and I don't want to waste them.

My narrator doesn't know he makes at least one mistake each …

Chapter 7 of She Consumes Poison is available to read on : https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/153820/scarlet-eye

With Nina gone, Lara decides to begin training with something akin to show and tell, giving the recruits a chance to explain their choice of weapons.

She starts with the smart-mouthed fellow, who has the greatest assortment of oddities, ranging from crosses to "witch-killer" bullets.

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I'm currently writing the 41st and last chapter of my WIP. That, and the epilogue, and the 1st draft is finished. (In large parts, it's already the 2nd, 3rd, or even 4th draft.)

What a strange feeling. Roughly 125k words, so many threads, and now so close to the end, everything's finally coming together. I was so afraid I'd butcher it somewhere along the way; I'm not afraid anymore.