I’ve been fighting with Scriv mucking up my curly quotes, especially at the end of sentences after an em-dash. My workflow for my beta is to export a section from Scriv to a Word (.doc) format. I never noticed the problem when I was using OpenOffice, but then I was also NOT compiling several scenes […]
Archive for the ‘Writing’ category
Scriv and the Misbehaving Curly Quotes
May 4th, 2014
When writing goes well
April 7th, 2014
Chatter about poetry
March 13th, 2014
All this talk about poems has made me think. Child me loved verse. You’d not guess that, in light of how I spend words. Still, it’s true, as true as fleas bite dogs. I’ve learned to take care with words at work. They sell me out. “Who wrote their job was ‘bleak’? Must be that […]
GMC, for Mun42
March 6th, 2014
How’s that for calling you out, Mun42? Angela’s class isn’t the first place I encountered the concept of GMC. It’s mentioned on page 10 of Writing with Emotion, Tension, & Conflict, with an order to get it and read it. After I started reading Angela’s lessons, I realized I was being prodded in that direction […]
Whine: visual problems
March 5th, 2014
I think I need a category called “Whine,” but I’m not caving to that urge. The Angela Knight class I mentioned focused heavily on the Goal-Motivation-Conflict triad (GMC). I’ve been thinking a lot about that and I’ve gone back to my original notes on Cantata, which actually has a lot of that info in it. […]