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by zhubert 9y ago
Hurray! That's fantastic!
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by zhubert 9y ago
10k! That's awesome. Keep going! If it helps motivation, try inviting a few friends and sharing your word counts with them. I spent two years working on my first book, barely hitting 5k/week during the first draft. My experience d
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by zhubert 9y ago
Thanks! 1) for instance with a little slider? yeah, that makes sense, Trello'ing 2) .docx export is already in Trello, so hopefully not too long of a wait
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by zhubert 9y ago
How very nice of you to offer! In lieu of donations to Singular Writer, may I suggest a non-profit, perhaps No Kid Hungry (www.nokidhungry.org)?
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by zhubert 9y ago
That definitely sounds frustrating. Personally I don't like how intrusive it is, always blocking the loading of the app while it shows me the sync process. iOS (like desktop Linux and Android) are entirely possible and would be fun to
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by zhubert 9y ago
Great question. Right now it's super lean and I haven't needed any additional income to support it. In the future that might change. If I were to charge for anything, it'd be paid "themes" for the eBook side of thin
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by zhubert 9y ago
I think I was shooting for something in between the two. If you've read the post by Hugh Howey about Neo, you'll find that we tend to think quite a bit a like. Productivity and publishing, that's what I wanted. Ulysses looks
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by zhubert 9y ago
There definitely could be, it might not even be that hard. I'll add it to my Trello for investigation.
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by zhubert 9y ago
Great eye! Originally the project was called Social Writer and those screenshots date back to that time. I decided the name was too limiting and changed it a couple of weeks ago. Images will update shortly.
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by zhubert 9y ago
I'll write up a better About page later, but there's now one featured prominently on the landing page.
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by zhubert 9y ago
That's an excellent point! In focusing on the features and such, I forgot to write up an About page, I'll do that. For those reading here, I'm the guy that wrote a blog post on how to self-publish a book in 2017 that was on t
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by zhubert 9y ago
Good work on the new release. As a long time Scrivener 2 user, I'm happy to see this. However, I wanted a simpler and subjectively nicer looking tool for distraction-free writing and thus made my own. It's free, has a few social f
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Show HN: Social Writer – Write more with friends(socialwriterapp.com)
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How I'm Going to Self-Publish My Novel in 2018(zhubert.com)
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by zhubert 10y ago
Fixed, thanks!
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by zhubert 10y ago
I can't address the general impression, but as someone who spends nearly every moment of my day in git (and only twenty percent of my day dealing with conflicts, I jest) I think my advice is more towards impedance matching. When workin
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by zhubert 10y ago
Hurray! That's fantastic!!
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by zhubert 10y ago
I'd love to read about using LaTex. Even though I've read TAOCP (shock!) and been a physics grad student, I'm still semi-scared at the notion of using it for fun. Most of my grad buddies (in experimental physics!!) had endles
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by zhubert 10y ago
His YouTube on writing speculative fiction is simply amazing.
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by zhubert 10y ago
I liken the idea of alpha readers to the popular tech concept of failing fast. Why not fail early in front of a smaller audience (with a chance to pivot and improve) than wait to fail late and run out of runway (or motivation). In my case,
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by zhubert 10y ago
Deeply sarcastic indeed! Writing Singular was probably the most emotionally trying and, at the same time, rewarding challenge I've tackled. It even feels weird to describe it that way, it's simply been a part of me for the last tw
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by zhubert 10y ago
Awesome, thanks! For my major edit, I went through The Story Grid approach by Coyne. Very helpful and appealed to my techie brain.
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by zhubert 10y ago
It wasn't the formatting actually. Change tracking of the proposed edits from the copyeditor was greatly expedited through Word's toolset. While I could have copied them all over by hand, I figured I'd likely introduce other
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by zhubert 10y ago
I think there are many reasons for writing, only some of which are success/financially motivated. Personally, I wanted to write a story about Lisp machines, Bostrom-inspired Artificial Intelligences, and a journey of discovery/adv
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by zhubert 10y ago
Excellent advice. I tried to stay focused on the technical side of production in this post as reams could be written on how to improve the writing side.
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by zhubert 10y ago
Largely driven by my copyeditor only working in Word. Given that incorporating their recommendations was much easier with change tracking in Word, it was a very useful addition to the toolbox.
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by zhubert 10y ago
Both. Ideas for the story accumulated in a Moleskin for a few months before I started writing. I also carry around a little field notes booklet in my backpack/pocket a good bit of the time. Makes me feel like a creative :) The major ed
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by zhubert 10y ago
As soon as they have author proofs, I'll switch over. The interface of KDP is really nice, trust me, I can't wait to switch.
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by zhubert 10y ago
I definitely agree with your initial post, I'm just not able to offer advice on how to write a good book as I may, or may not, know how :) In the writing groups I've participated in, there seem to be a number of authors that are s
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by zhubert 10y ago
I gave the 15 alpha readers a "finished" book, by which I mean, I thought it was ready to go, so I had already edited it myself a few times. The consistent feedback I received from those readers weighed heavily on the major edit w

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