I've had a MINI on my mind since COVID, but there was always something else I needed to do "first".
I've been lurking here for months... Asked a few dumb questions... Saw the supportive folks...
Joined the club today!
When did they take Honelink (for garage door openers) out of MINIs?
What the option here? Replace my garage door with some cloud-enabled wifi thingamabob or use a clicker like it's 1980?
I have three short stories that I wrote separately. The reactions from the beta readers are "we want this as a novel - add more!!"
Is there any easier way to bring them into a single file to become a novel, other than just copy/paste all the content into a single new file?
My novel has taken on a life of its own over the past 2 years. Yikes! 160K words, and counting.
I've been watching an author who is publishing his books online - 2 chapters per week, almost as he goes. He's using Patreon and his subscribers get the book chapters as part of that. He makes sure to stay a few weeks ahead, and it's working for him. His posting "chapters" are about the same size as my scenes, by the way.
When the story is done, he pulls it together into a single book and publishes it on Amazon, and pulls down the original Patreon content (per Amazon rules).
My question is - My book is in Parts (a complete story arc of 30-60K work each), Chapters and Scenes.
Looking at the content, I could try the same thing - my scenes are self-contained and about the right size for bi-weekly posting.
My question - finally - All my section/chapters/scenes are "structure based" and that breaks down properly for book publishing.
If I want to publish all my scenes separately, with Chapter Numbers and Chapter Titles - how do I change all the scenes into Chapters? Will the current higher level chapters "steal" a chapter number if I do this?
I want to drop a flashback into a chapter. It's not long enough or complete enough(?) to be a standalone chapter (I think).
What's the best way to make it clear this is a flashback?
I think Italics and maybe a header (1 line para) of "Ten Years ago..." could work. What's the "proper" way to distinguish a flashback that isn't big enough to be its own chapter?
Or should flashbacks always be a separate chapter? Is making it a distinct "scene" (scrivener) and italics enough?
