Writing “advice”

Also, from the AP, the secret of novel-writing success.

“Mitchard’s success as a novelist seems to stem from the fact that her books are about families, with which readers, particularly women, can identify.”

So there you go. Write about families. Gosh.

MS Word Include Text Fields

On rasfc, llygoden pointed out the useful MSWord field code “includetext” via an old post. It copies the contents of small files into one big files and vice versa. Nice for merging chapters into one manuscript file. I wish I’d known to look for this before; it seems like an obvious feature for the thing to have, and would have been very useful for all the search-and-replacing I’ve been doing. Was useful for the last five chapters, anyway.