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Footnotes: 2 December 2024

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Dec 2 •

The Vaen'ka: part 2

Lola flexes her detective muscles

Nov 29 •

Foreshadowing in online serials

Predicting the future

Nov 25 •

The Vaen'ka: part 1

A doom approaches

Nov 23 •

Choosing the right structure for a story

And how non-linearity can shake things up

Nov 18 •

Lola lays it all out on the table. Literally.

Nov 15 •

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Video guides

15:30

Designing your newsletter's About page

Plus deciding on names, descriptions and cover images

Mar 4 •

6:41

What is Scrivener?

An excellent tool for longer projects

Feb 5 •

20:19

How to figure out your Substack's settings

Explaining over 50 million individual settings in one video

Dec 4, 2023 •

8:50

Using the Substack post editor: part 2

Explaining Substack's editor settings

Nov 20, 2023 •

16:31

How to write a Substack post

A guided tour of the Substack post editor

Oct 9, 2023 •

5:39

Understanding the Substack toolkit

Posts, Threads, Chat, Notes, Video, Episodes, what?

Sep 25, 2023 •

4:32

What actually is Substack?

And why you might want to use it

Sep 18, 2023 •

Writing Serialised Fiction

How to write serialised fiction

Write more, write better

Mar 21, 2022 •

One reader is enough

I mean, at least metaphorically-speaking

Mar 14, 2022 •

Preparing for launch

At some point you have to hit the button

Mar 7, 2022 •

On taking criticism as a writer

Don't take it personally

Feb 28, 2022 •

Titles, covers & blurbs

How to make your book stand out

Feb 15, 2022 •

Let's Watch: Babylon 5

s3e4: Passing through Gethsemane

We are the universe, trying to understand itself

Dec 3 •

s3e3: A Day in the Strife

We never really talked, Londo

Nov 27 •

s3e2: Convictions

Well, it is an imperfect universe

Nov 20 •

s3e1: Matters of Honor

We'd better get ready

Nov 13 •

s2e22: The Fall of Night

It's the thought that counts

Nov 6 •

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