Notes on world-building, craft, and glossaries.
Practical writing on keeping invented worlds consistent, for authors who'd rather spend their time drafting than formatting.
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What Publishers Now Ask About AI Use
What contracts and forms now ask.
Proving You Wrote Your Book
The evidence, kept as you go.
Subscription or One-Off Purchase
Price it over a career, not a month.
How to Back Up a Manuscript Properly
The rule, applied to a book.
Cloud Sync Risks for Writers
Sync copies your mistakes too.
Working Offline as an Author
Writing without a network.
Account Security for Authors
The accounts that hold your livelihood.
What to Do If Your Manuscript Leaks
It is out. Here is the order.
Watermarking Advance Copies
Marking copies, and what that buys.
Terms of Service Changes and Your Manuscript
The agreement changes after you agreed.
How to Audit the Tools You Already Use
A list of everything that has your text.
How Fuzzy Name Matching Works
How a tool decides two names are similar.
How Term Extraction Works
How a tool decides a word is unusual.
Why a Dictionary Is Not Enough
Why the spellchecker cannot help you.
What a Stop List Is and Why It Matters
The list of words that are never reported.
False Positives and Why They Matter
Noise costs more than a miss.
Precision and Recall for Authors
Two numbers behind every setting.
How to Evaluate a Manuscript Tool
A test, on your book, before you pay.
Questions to Ask Before Buying Writing Software
The questions worth asking first.
Free Trials and What to Test
A trial is for one question.
How to Test a Tool on Your Own Book
Your book, your errors, a real answer.
What Happens When a Writing Tool Shuts Down
Companies close. Books should not.
Lock-In and How to Avoid It
Can you take your book with you.
Exporting Your Work From Writing Software
Do the export before you need it.
File Formats That Outlive Software
The format outlasts the program.
Plain Text for Novelists
Nothing but the words, for ever.
Markdown for Novelists
Plain text that knows about headings.
DOCX and EPUB as Archival Formats
Two open standards, kept together.
Google Docs vs Scrivener
The decision most first novels face.
Microsoft Word vs Scrivener
The industry format, or the writing tool.
Novlr vs NovelPad
Two subscriptions, and how to choose.
yWriter vs Scrivener
Free and plain, or paid and polished.
Reedsy Studio vs Vellum
Free and good, or paid and faster.
Kindle Create vs Reedsy Studio
Both free. One is portable.
ProWritingAid vs a Manuscript Scan
Two things called checking.
What a Rule-Based Checker Cannot Do
The boundary, stated plainly.
ProWritingAid vs Hemingway Editor
Many reports, or one opinion.
Hemingway Editor vs LanguageTool
Style opinion, or grammar checking.
AutoCrit vs Marlowe
Line-level reports, or a whole-book assessment.
Novelcrafter vs Novelium
Two platforms, two data positions.
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