A technique I've been using a lately for non-fiction, including work stuff, is write a really rough first draft and put it on the left side of my screen--window managers will do that--and then have a fresh document on the right side and essentially summarize my own draft.

Instead of tinkering with crap prose, I write fresh new prose, and the result contains all the same information but is way clearer and shorter. It's great.

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Humanity. Compassion. Nuance. Ambiguity. That sort of thing.

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Can't remember what hasn't happened yet. ;)

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The image would disappear before you could get a real look at it, and you'd have to wait for a whole minutes before it came back.

Eventually, you'd pick out her, looking like a shadow of her happy, cheerful self, as well as a dark-skinned boy with a hint of madness in his eyes, an earnest but terrified white hippie girl, and a big Asian boy with raggedy black hair.

2/2

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I just tried exporting a story I'm working on from #LibreOffice to an ePub file, and it worked beautifully. It used to be that you had to get a plug-in to do this, but now it's built right into the app. I even added metadata and some random image as a cover, just to see what would happen, and it worked perfectly.

I cannot figure out why more #writers don't use LibreOffice. Every single time I go to do something in it that I want to do for writing either fiction or nonfiction, it's way ahead of what you can do in Microsoft Word, and definitely way ahead of what you can do in Google Docs. Yeah you have to learn the app, but it's not like that's too difficult for what most writers need to get going.

My office is a part of our living room and my lovely partner, Tony has a habit of spotting me at my desk, forgetting that I'm working and wafting in to tell me science facts. (Usually about singularities, black holes and binary stars of late.) And while I love a good science fact, the primal roar that I emit when interrupted mid-sentence edit is apt to terrify the average science fact imparting bunny to a premature bunny death.

SO! This was Tony's solution. An autopilot caltrop! I love it.

It's sitting in the door of my office/our living room whenever I'm working and HE SHALL NOT PASS!

(If this doesn't work, we're going to have to hire a door dragon, who could also correct the spelling of lich, but hey, what's a board without a sneaky typo or two.)

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Yes. The funny one who wants to be the hero. He's endlessly fascinating to me, and a real fan favourite, too (based on the few people who've read it).

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"They're so great. My dad cooks, and my mom's just always there, and my brother's fun to play with, and our floor cousins! We have elevator races up and down the arcology. The aunties and uncles and omas and popos. I miss them so much."

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"Just." I use it too much.

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Now that I really think about it, a huge part of her mission is to make proper education where children are told directly what the nature of the world is and what they must do to protect it. Confusing them with "context" is pointless when there's a war on.

(There is no war. She's delusional.)

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in case you're unaware, GOOD INTERNET covers a lot of different aspects of the #SmallWeb: unplugging from the corporate web, fighting #enshittification, migrating from data-harvesting corpo social media, creating your own personal website, using code and website-building as an art form, federation, and creating websites for fun. the aim is to be approachable for beginners and enjoyable for seasoned #indieweb travelers!

you don't have to be a professional #webdev or a #coding smartypants to write about all the good things happening on "this side" of the web. the idea here is to spread the word about and share thoughts, independent web projects, services, methods, sites, meet-ups, and celebrate the non-corporate web together while making it easier for us to partake and unplug from #bigtech.

📏 looking for 1,000- to 4,000-word articles aimed at website owners and hobbyists, digital (and traditional) #artists, #internet culture enthusiasts, #technology nerds, #socialmedia expatriates, & anyone who wants to unplug from the corporate-owned #web.

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Starting today, we’re rolling out changes to Medium publications, following a comprehensive codebase migration that lets us make improvements at a faster pace. Read about it from Zulie in The Medium Blog:

https://medium.com/blog/medium-publications-are-now-easier-to-organize-and-navigate-9e13be8c4b4d

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