On Hiatus

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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 …

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Editing Butterfly in Scrivener, Part 2

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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 …

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Trimming the Beast Down – Part 1

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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 …

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