is a keychron k3 pro worth it for a novelist?

What are some of the advantages of a Keychron keyboard? A Gateron Brown switch type will provide a less clicky, quieter, smoother typing experience for a novelist. K3 is a 75% keyboard that is more compact without the Numpad, making it easy to travel with and occupying less desk space. It will be hot-swappable, so …

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Why Milanote is ideal for mindmapping ?

While I was watching YouTube video on writing rituals, I heard the writer Christy Anne Jones say that she uses Milanote for brainstorming. Compared to other mindmapping/ brainstorming apps like x-mind, where the nodes and bubbles are predetermined in shapes and directions, Milanote is quite versatile, in the number of things that you can do …

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Prayaag Akbar’s Topological Camouflage

I had heard about Leila in a Newslaundry interview of Madhu Trehan by Manisha Pandey. It’s interesting that all three, including Prayaag are journalists. As for the topological camouflage in Leila, the language has the ability to camouflage, as much as it has the ability to reveal.While journalism is mostly about direct communication of what …

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how cf has inspired the indie comix space

American cartoonist CF – nom de plume of polymathic graphical innovator Christopher ForguesArt Review article by Jamie Sutcliffe Following is a list of links based on the references in Jamie Sutcliffe article… the indie comix artists who have been inspired by CF or who are in the ecosystem of CF’s indie comix or underground comix …

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what was american culture before columbus?

Stephen Graham Jones, Earthdivers Vol 2: Ice Age, (IDW) nominated for best writer at Eisner 2024. — One wonders if the pre-Columbian Americas had a “classical” literary culture. The U.S. before Columbus invasion had indigenous cultures like Mississippian, Pueblos (Anasazi), Iroquois, Hopewell, Hohokam. — Stephen Graham Jones is not referring to any particular indigenous culture, …

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Humorous heart wrenching short story ?

Miranda July’s “Roy Spivey” in The New Yorker:The Writer’s Voice podcast A fictional work, dotted with humour that ends on a sad note, can be devastating, as David Sedaris, who read the story in the podcast, tells Deborah Treisman, the New Yorker fiction editor. Life is Beautiful, film by Roberto Benigni — was heart-wrenching precisely …

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Just 12 pages of a classic per day?

YouTube channel “Tristan and the Classics” recommends reading just 12 pages of a classic per day. This 12 pages of a classic per day can be a daily ritual at a time set aside for it. That doesn’t preclude you from reading anything else. I’ll start with Anna Karenina.

Is a query letter like talking to an agent?

While researching topic of submitting a manuscript to a literary agent, I came across the term query. Alyssa Matesic has industry experience of having been in publishing who gives insights into various of publishing from an Anglo-American point-of-view. Top 5 elements of a successful query letter:Alyssa Matesic Notes:Some people say that, in person, you have …

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Reverse character-building

Book Fox, “You’re building characters backwards.” Why are we developing characters based on how they look rather than what they believe in? Build characters based on the following sequence: