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Elyse M Grasso<a href="https://historians.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WritersCoffeeClub</a> 10 worldbuilding contMost of my notes in <a href="https://historians.social/tags/NovelWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NovelWriter</a> are names of people, places or things, with cross references for things like kinship and faction membership and which city they are currently in, and whether they ware currently alive, and nested subdirectories for geographical locations.The problem with writing whole worlds is that you end up with a lot of names.Some of my notes elsewhere are small essays about how aspects of the world worked at the time.

Elyse M Grasso<a href="https://historians.social/tags/libreoffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libreoffice</a> to <a href="https://historians.social/tags/novelwriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#novelwriter</a> migration phase 2I have finished populated the notes with data from vol2, as well as filling in a few items from various text files and spreadsheetsMy novelwriter project now contains about 65K words of volume3 and 10K of very brief notes definitions and cross-referencesThe next phase will be a combination of pulling notes info from volume 3, adjusting volume3 to match the info in the published volumes, and starting to add to vol 3 as I work my way through it

Elyse M Grassomigration from <a href="https://historians.social/tags/LibreOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LibreOffice</a> to <a href="https://historians.social/tags/NovelWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NovelWriter</a> phase 2Got the wordlist migration sorted. It turned out that the feature existed, but updates for the docs for the Tools tab are lagging, and the relevant icons are microscopic on a high DPI laptop screen.I grabbed the custom.dic file from the LibreOffice config tree, stripped the first 3lines, which were a sort of header, and fed the resulting txt file to the popup started by clicking the appropriate microscopic icon. Longer to describe than do...

Elyse M Grassomigration from <a href="https://historians.social/tags/LibreOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LibreOffice</a> to <a href="https://historians.social/tags/NovelWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NovelWriter</a> phase 2I need to find a way to get Novel Writer to include my custom dictionary for the series. I can probably dump the LO wordlist and copy paste into the project wordlist, but there should be something at the spellcheck level.Finished populating and Cross-referencing the Notes with items from vol1 96 character entries 22 categories 70 location entries 14 object definitions 29 cultural and religious entriesOn to vol2. Maybe not until tomorrow

Scott Rochester<a href="https://historians.social/@elysegrasso" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@elysegrasso</a> thanks! good input!each of the 6 novels in my series has a travelling storytellerin book 1 I have already written a parody of package holidays, one whole (stand alone) chapterThe almost true true story of The Canneriesbook 2 has a chapter with the working titleThe almost true true story of The InterWebThingyall of them have outline notesnow including book 6 The almost true true story of The Novelistthat might include pitfalls of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LibreOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LibreOffice</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/novelWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#novelWriter</a> etc!

Elyse M GrassoMigrating wip from <a href="https://historians.social/tags/LibreOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LibreOffice</a> to <a href="https://historians.social/tags/novelWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#novelWriter</a> 4/4conclusion: Migration from LibreOffice to NovelWriter seems doable, and the notes will be useful once populated. 70K into volume 3 may have been leaving it a bit lateHave not tested output from NovelWriter back to LibreOffice for formatting yet, but I'm sure I can manage. (I hope I won't need to manually tweak all of the paragraphs going back the other way...)

Elyse M GrassoMigrating wip from <a href="https://historians.social/tags/LibreOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LibreOffice</a> to <a href="https://historians.social/tags/novelWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#novelWriter</a> 3/n phase 1 complete import after nuking front and back matter 70K words novel in NW after massaging, 64.5KwordsPhase 2 open pdf of vol 1 (wip is vol 3) and start populating NovelWriter notes with names of things, cross-reffing the heck out of thingsPart of phase 2 will be tuning the spellchecker for NW, copy custom dictionary from LOPhase 1 took less than a day, Phase 2: 1 day has finished 1/3 of vol 1 & my eyes need rest

NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi<a href="https://historians.social/@elysegrasso" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@elysegrasso</a> What is the advantage of <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NovelWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NovelWriter</a>. I looked at their site, and it looked like more work. Fedi is the only place I publish that supports markdown. And even then, it's not universal.Obviously, you are seeing something I'm not. So I am asking.

Elyse M GrassoMigrating wip from <a href="https://historians.social/tags/LibreOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LibreOffice</a> to <a href="https://historians.social/tags/novelWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#novelWriter</a> 2/n11) move a few chapters from near the end to before the middle 12) manually add additional<CR> to every paragraph in every chapter, compare with LO to find paras 12 a) find some more chapter headings, add markdown codes and split chapters accordingly 12 b) find a section of text that got copied instead of moved in LO and nuke the duped section in NW 12 c) fix a bunch a bunch of typos, since I was reading every paragraph anyway 12 d)

Elyse M GrassoMigrating wip from <a href="https://historians.social/tags/LibreOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LibreOffice</a> to <a href="https://historians.social/tags/novelWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#novelWriter</a> 1) read novelWriter docs 2) install novelWriter (Kubuntu2404) 3) create a novelWriter project named after the series 4) rename 'novel' to novel's real name 5) export LibreOffice doc as txt 6) import txt into NW chapter 7) edit chapter: delete front and back matter added by LO template 8) edit chapter add markdown codes to all chapter headings 9) use NW tool to split file at headings 10) archive chapter that does not belong in this volume 1/n

Elyse M Grasso<a href="https://historians.social/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScribesAndMakers</a> 01: What's on the docket for this month?Last month got the WIP to a point where I can see where it needs to go.Now I need to majorly restructure the WIP and get the proper nouns and political faction defs under control. I think I'm going to copy it into NovelWriter and populate the Notes hierarchy with data from vols 1 & 2 as well as vol 3 so far. (I wish NW could import Open Docs (odt files) as well as export them. That would be really handy right about now.)<a href="https://historians.social/tags/NovelWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NovelWriter</a>

TorpeyvagoReto RAE20250620 SolsticioLa pose del «neodruida»Mira hacia el Sol naciente. Apenas se distingue, por la luz del astro, la sombra de los brazos levantados, la túnica al viento. Los cánticos ensordecen a las chicharras. No me parece buen sitio para invocar. Lo confirma el cercanías Valdemoro - Bucaramanga pasándoles por encima.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retorae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retorae</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microrrelato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microrrelato</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microficci%C3%B3n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microficción</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humornegro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humornegro</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tefif%C3%A1n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tefifán</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/novelwriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#novelwriter</a>

Paul KaterBloody hell, searching in <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Novelwriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Novelwriter</a> is so fast!57K words and a global search completes in less than a second!<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@novelwriter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@novelwriter</a>

TorpeyvagoReto RAE 20250609 Cortapisa Quejas del más acá —Vale ya de poner trabas: que si escapa del ataúd, que si sal de la tierra, que si encuentra qué comer… Y ahora, los gritos, ¿te crees que tengo la cabeza para tonterías? ¿Te molesta que te coma el cerebro? ¿Y qué quieres que coma?, ¿pipas? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retorae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retorae</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microrrelato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microrrelato</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microficci%C3%B3n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microficción</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humornegro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humornegro</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tefif%C3%A1n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tefifán</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/novelwriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#novelwriter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fosco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fosco</a>

TOVnovelWriter 2.7.1 is released today. It is a markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many smaller plain text documents.It is designed to be a simple text editor that allows for easy organisation of text files and notes, with a meta data syntax for comments, synopsis, and cross-referencing between files, and built on plain text files for robustness.<a href="https://novelwriter.io/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://novelwriter.io/</a><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/novelWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#novelWriter</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#novel</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#writer</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#markdown</a>

Paul Kater<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@novelwriter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@novelwriter</a> Alrighty. This went swimmingly. I now have a <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/novelWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#novelWriter</a> file of 134.000 words I can work with, after cleaning up some very weird stuff using <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/geany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geany</a>.

Torpeyvago20250602 Pedúnculo Pena marmórea —El David de Miguel Ángel, una joya renacentista… —Seño, ¿eso es el peciolo que vimos en bio? —¿Qué? —Eso… —¡Ah! No me pagan tanto como para aguantar las tontás de vuestros padres, quicir, que es o no es, según lo que resulte menos ofensivo para sus respetabilísimas creencias. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microrrelato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microrrelato</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microficci%C3%B3n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microficción</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/novelwriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#novelwriter</a>

Torpeyvago<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retorae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retorae</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microficci%C3%B3n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microficción</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microrrelato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microrrelato</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tefif%C3%A1n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tefifán</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fosco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fosco</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/terror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#terror</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fantasi%CC%81a" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fantasía</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/novelwriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#novelwriter</a>

Paul KaterI've been testdriving the RC1 of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@novelwriter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@novelwriter</a>, which has a number of changes in it that I requested.So far: 🥳 <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/NovelWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NovelWriter</a>

Wolf Munroe ☎In my profile I say I wrote a first draft manuscript but I keep procrastinating edits and further drafts. I'm trying to at least get the draft typed and in one cohesive project file, so, to that end, I'm assigning Tuesdays as Typing/Transcription Tuesdays. Today I moved some text from Scrivener Trial Version to <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/NovelWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NovelWriter</a>, including recreating document tags. I want to get everything out of Scrivener, then work on getting the stuff that didn't even make it into Scrivener yet. <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/WIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WIP</a>

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