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Writers’ Mill Minutes 2024 07 21
This month’s meeting was held over zoom due to air conditioning problems at the library. 17 members were present online to hear a talk from Walt Socha, one of our longest standing members.
Continue reading Writers’ Mill Minutes 2024 07 21Help your reader get lost in your book, with Walt Socha
We’d all love our readers to fall into our writing and not know how to get out. Walt showed a great graphic to entice us. But how do we get there?
Continue reading Help your reader get lost in your book, with Walt SochaThe Writers’ Mill FAQ
The Writers’ Mill was started in 2007 and has continued to meet monthly at Cedar Mill Library, in Portland Oregon, under various different leaders since that time. Meetings will usually include:
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Why can’t I read the Website?
Continue reading Website Help & FAQsTips and Tricks with Word
Some Neat Tricks
TABS
We told our pre-editors to take out all the tabs (see notes on Style – you don’t need tabs to indent your paragraphs, and you’re really much better off without them). We told you tabs break ebooks. But what if you’re not writing an ebook. What are tabs good for? Well…
Continue reading Tips and Tricks with WordUsing Word with Style
GUESS WHAT!
You don’t need to indent your paragraph with a tab, or separate paragraphs with a blank line, or use two spaces after a period, or retype your whole document to submit to an anthology that requires 1.5 line spacing, or indent lines of poetry with three, four, five spaces (and lose count), or …
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