Revision resumes with a potential turn-back point, which Heroine basically ignored in her mechanical trudge toward the next plot point. I had her slow down to acknowledge both certain death ahead and equally certain but postponed death if she turns back, then tapped both her conscience and a grudge as motivation to justify moving forward. […]
Not sure if anyone other than myself and bots experienced the site being down for long stretches over the past week, but it should be reasonably stable now. Functionality There were multiple issues. The first pertained to the CDN (content delivery network, which in my case mostly involves caching). I used to get a bandwidth
Unexpected news in my inbox this morning: Hoopla’s “long processing time” (in excess of 2 years for some books) has at long last come to an end. Of relevance to those who know me here, all my Ren Benton contemporary romances are now available through libraries that use Hoopla as their digital media service. UPDATE
A student asked, “How do you know where to put a chapter break?” Short answer: vibes. Grouping and separating ideas is a large part of writing. Sentences, paragraphs, scenes, chapters, parts I and II of a book, books in a series—all are choices about what belongs together. Andri did this, and Banti did that. Here,