Using Tautologies

Hey, SE Readers. Joan here today. I’ve known of some writers who refuse to use any time of spell check or grammar aid when writing. I’m not ashamed to admit I need all the help I can get. While these tools are not a substitute for proofreading, they can help detect things such as using …

When You Can’t Find Your Past Participle

Hello SErs. Happy Wednesday. Harmony here 🙂 While writing my current book, Exodus, I ran into a little difficulty ... well, it felt more like a brick wall, lol. What tripped me up well and truly is a little thing called a past participle (I don't know about you, but I hate grammatical terms. They …

A #Scrivener Compiling Primer

Happy Monday to everyone! PH back in the house with some additional Scrivener tips, this week covering some compiling basics. This is a point at which you are ready to extract the manuscript from Scrivener and begin editing so it's important to have useful results that you want when you compile. But getting everything can …

How to Track a Scrivener Project with Meta-Data

Happy Monday to all the Story Empire readers. PH here today with another Scrivener tip that may help you with a writing project - tracking your WIP with meta-data. I've written about the Inspector a number of times in the past. Just to re-cap, the Inspector is the bar on the right side of the …

Self-Editing Tips

Hi, SE Readers. Joan here today. I’ve been in the editing mode of late. It never ceases to amaze me how many mistakes I find. I edit, then I send pages to my critique partners thinking I’ve got a pretty clean copy. They find other things I’ve missed. So, I edit some more. Whether you …