I'm a Writer. I Create Universes.
The writing site of Larry Kollar, author of Accidental Sorcerers and other stories.
Welcome to my writing site! Feel free to look around and check out the links up top, especially my book catalog. My blog posts will be heavy on tools and tech, and techniques that work for me, because all the writing advice out there says I’m doing it w0rNg. Scroll down, or hit the Posts link up top, and see if you find anything useful.
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Smashwords, Direct to Tablet
(Reprinted from my personal blog. Original post date: May 6, 2015. Updated.) So you have a new mobile device, and want to download eBooks from a wide variety of sources. Patricia Lynne made a good point about this: I find it hard to link to [Smashwords] too when on Amazon...
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I Wrote a Guest Post
I have a guest post at tuesdayserial.com this week. It’s called, “How I Did Everything Wrong (and Still Finished My Serials).” Go check it out and leave a comment! Disclosure: I became the caretaker in chief of #TuesdaySerial at the end of 2017. One of the other staff members (hi...
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Simulating Kanban in an Outliner
Yet another post in the “it works for me” vein… In the last six weeks or so, my dayjob workload has gone from “fairly light” to “OMGWTF.” In a desperate Friday afternoon attempt to get on top of things, I dumped my entire to-do list into my outliner at work...
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Setting Goals as a Writer
When I first started writing, it was fun to just let the characters take me in whatever direction they felt like going. Sooner or later, I would figure out how to pull it all back into whatever narrative I thought worked best. I was doing it for fun, and this...
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Using MultiMarkdown in Scrivener, part 3
Last time, we made some basic Compile settings to get the HTML output looking right. Now, it’s time to make one last tweak—and build an eBook in record time. You’re ready to go! All you need to do1 is output an eBook, and you’ll be ready to send that book...