Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]Dear internet, please stop making videos to tell me things that could be adequately explained in one paragraph of text.
| Location: | In the mountains... |
| ...and... | ...far from the sea. |
Asi Lav
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Female. Oft mentor to developing fiction writers. Lover of long form. Survivor of film adaptation development hell. Writer of Literary Fiction. (Repped by CAA)
@ThisIsMissEm It is an example of survivorship bias. An RAF or American Air Force analyst surveyed bombers for damage and created a map of the areas the planes were hit most often. These areas were then armoured up for protection. The problem is that by definition the "hit areas" were the least damaging. Any serious hits resulted in the loss of the airplane so that was an airplane that wouldn't be surveyed. The worst hits were not being mapped.
Writing tip: Unless it's a submarine adventure, never use Gibraltar as a setting.
Any #NaNoWriMo participants that would like advice / encouragement, feel free to reach out. I've done three, and they were instrumental to getting my novels jumpstarted.
Unsolicited #NaNoWriMo advice: Set your Scrivener target for 60,000 words and your deadline for November 29th. You'll thank me later. (You are using #Scrivener, right?)
@orionkidder Have you read Greg Bear's Anvil of Stars (sequel to The Forge of God). Aside from being a fantastic book, there is a similar leadership election structure on board the "Ship of the Law" which is explored in some detail.
@wion Go back to self-hosted blogs, to cPanel, to Wordpress, to Drupal.
@emsenn A "shrink" of course.
@matt Excellent! Sure, please do re: admin. I'll try to seed some content there.