I think I need to find a replacement for Scrivener. It runs *okay* in Linux, but there are some real issues.

No need to give me links to other Scrivener-like programs. I'm aware of them.

But if you write long-form in Linux, what do you use and *why*? I'm really curious about that.

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I think I need to find a replacement for Scrivener. It runs *okay* in Linux, but there are some real issues.

No need to give me links to other Scrivener-like programs. I'm aware of them.

But if you write long-form in Linux, what do you use and *why*? I'm really curious about that.

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Does anyone have a *method* for where to cut off your chapters?

Do you end on specific kinds of story beats? Do you have a rough length they conform to? Do you have to have accomplished something to make it a chapter?

I have ZERO intuitive sense of when chapters ought to end, and it's driving me batty.

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Nota bene:

"Point of view characters" are not required. Many books have omniscient narrators and "head hop" as a matter of course. Saladin Ahmed's EMPIRE OF THE CRESCENT MOON does this, and it won *all* the awards.

If you *like* to work with POV characters then please do! But there's no rule saying you have to.

Just saying.

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Does anyone have a *method* for where to cut off your chapters?

Do you end on specific kinds of story beats? Do you have a rough length they conform to? Do you have to have accomplished something to make it a chapter?

I have ZERO intuitive sense of when chapters ought to end, and it's driving me batty.

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It's not so much "refuse" as "just don't want to." I will probably never write something where the protagonists are cops or soldiers. I'm bored with that perspective, and it's hard to avoid it being propaganda. Not interested.

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It's not so much "refuse" as "just don't want to." I will probably never write something where the protagonists are cops or soldiers. I'm bored with that perspective, and it's hard to avoid it being propaganda. Not interested.

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I'm on a roll! I am almost finished my draft, and I'll need beta readers soon. I have a couple of friends in mind. If anyone wants to volunteer, I'd be open to a draft exchange!

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I'm on a roll! I am almost finished my draft, and I'll need beta readers soon. I have a couple of friends in mind. If anyone wants to volunteer, I'd be open to a draft exchange!

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The Jedi academy from a youngling's point of view, only it's a paramilitary cult (but then, it always was...).

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Essentially, she has the force and can manifest a light sabre at will. She's also spent a couple of decades studying the Indian martial art of kalaripayattu. That counts?

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Olives. Hate them. Don't know why people like them. It's okay if you do! I just don't get it.

And those garbage melons they put in fruit cups, the green and orange ones.

Also coffee. Just, why? Why do you people drink it?

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Very soon, I will celebrate having for the first time written a first draft of a whole damn novel.

And then soon after that, I will *lament* having to revise a WHOLE. DAMN. NOVEL.

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Very soon, I will celebrate having for the first time written a first draft of a whole damn novel.

And then soon after that, I will *lament* having to revise a WHOLE. DAMN. NOVEL.

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When someone reads and likes it and wants to talk about it. Not praise! *Talk*. I mean, I'll take praise, but interaction is just the best.

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When someone reads and likes it and wants to talk about it. Not praise! *Talk*. I mean, I'll take praise, but interaction is just the best.

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Sharing. I used to have the good camera of all our phones, so I'd take pictures of our cats and then later our kids and send them to the whole family. The portrait effect is such a crowd pleaser.

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I have so much of this world mapped out in my head! I want to spend time there. It's pretty utopian.

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Not yet. I'm sure I will someday.

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