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I know what to do about writer's block in fiction—for me it means I'm trying to force a story into the wrong Content Genre. I think you're dealing with something different here.

I don't normally touch the Horror genre with a 10 foot pole, but I was challenged to write a story for Halloween, and I had an idea about how technology distances us, and wrote this out in one sitting. (It has a bit of a redemptive ending, one person sacrificing themselves for humanity.)...

Grr! Argh!

AGAIN?!

I was a lifelong Windows user but converted to MacOS to write on Scrivener in its native Mac-first form. I have a M4 Pro MacBook Pro, dual monitors, and use a KVM switch to share a gaming keyboard, mouse, and webcam between Mac and Windows. In general I suggest getting as much RAM as you...

Our own C.S. (Suzanne) Lakin! https://www.livewritethrive.com/

Greetings! Fellow Cheesehead from the Janesville area. Welcome!

That's not a thing. The good news is this was an outage that affected a great many people.

I haven't used Grammarly in a minute, but PWA feels like it's more suited to creative writing and Grammarly is better for business writing. For AI, I use two tools—ChatGPT 5 and Claude Opus 4.1. I give them both the same prompt ('does this scene conform to the revised Story Grid 5 Commandments...

I use AI all the time (for developmental editing feedback) but not in PWA. I just use it for grammar-checking in Scrivener—commas in the wrong place, starting consecutive sentences with the same word, things like that. You /can/ use AI in PWA, but you have to go looking for it. The integration...

Scrivener and ProWritingAid are practically made for each other. PWA integrates right into Scrivener to help you with general suggestions as you write. If you want a more fuller-featured experience. Close your Scrivener project and open PWA and you can edit your manuscript directly in the...

Short answer—it's Microsoft's AI. "Microsoft Copilot acts as an intelligent personal assistant and workplace co‑creator—bridging search, productivity, and creativity inside Windows, Microsoft 365, and the web through advanced generative AI."

I scheduled it for Sunday. Sometimes those land, sometimes they don't. This one got 169 impressions and 4 comments. (It didn't land. And that's ok.) I know so many people (especially Boomers or Gen X either retired or nearing retirement) who say 'I have a book in me.' I'm writing daily on...

Using the Story Grid Content Genre framework, that description aligns most closely with a Worldview → Redemption Story (specifically Worldview Revelation / Redemption) . Here’s how it breaks down. Controlling Idea / Theme: When people confront their own brokenness and receive grace through...

I love that title! (And gratz on publishing your novel!)

Oh, I was practically born to scrap online, heh.* * Now largely retired, thanks be to God.

I really like this idea! I don't know Latin, but I can turn a phrase... I'd nominate Deus in machina: When divine intervention works through the logic of the story and the transformation of the character, rather than overriding them. Deus in Machina: when divine grace reveals itself through...

Ok, so this is really interesting. As Christians, we believe there is an actual 'God in the machine,' an external force who insinuates Himself in the lives of his creation. And that got me thinking... with regard to Deus Ex Machina, what do you do when the living God helps a protagonist who...

That was always my assumption, and I love a prescriptive (or 'happy') ending, however, the narrative is, instead, a cautionary tale. Despite their mass repentance in the time of Jonah, biblical and historical evidence suggests the revival in Nineveh was short-lived. The book of Nahum, written...