Nine Characters + One Butterfly = Chaos Theory
This is just to let everyone know that (aside from a quick update now and then) I won’t be posting anything here for a month or so. I’ll be doing final preparations for If a Butterfly until sometime in September or early October. Michael Standard Disclaimer: Please post a comment below if you would like …
Once I started using Scrivener it became obvious that it could do a number of things that I was using several other programs to accomplish. Here’s an example. In an earlier post, A Milestone, I mentioned one method used to keep track of which characters were in what scenes, and how often they were appearing …
Most of the posts you’ve seen in this blog so far are replications of earlier posts from my former blog and/or personal website. There will be more of those, but this post is current (3-31-2021), and marks the start of a once every other week posting in the blog. I’m at a crucial stage in …
Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on October 24, 2012 Although If a Butterfly went through many revisions before it was complete, it shrank and grew as I worked. It was at its heftiest (in terms of size) in March/April 2012. At that point it weighed in at 311,032 words, and was 1,151 double-spaced …
Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on September 15, 2012 [Comments from 2021 are in italics, enclosed in square brackets, like this one.] When I finished the second draft of If a Butterfly, about eleven weeks ago [early-summer 2012], it was 280,762 words and 1,093 double-spaced pages. After I returned from the 2012 WLT …