![]() ![]() It’s not nice/helpful to tell teenagers that their writing sucks. ![]() I’m not telling teenagers that they suck, I’m telling them that their writing does. It’s not nice/helpful to tell teenagers they suck. Now, on to the arguments, arranged in no particular order:ġ. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t have bothered to write the original article at all. I have every expectation that teen writers will get better. It’s not an insult to note that someone doesn’t do something well, yet: It’s just an observation. Almost all of them will get better with time and practice. This will allow me to point these young folks to a single source to counter their arguments, so I don’t have to do it over and over again, saving me time and repetitive strain injury.īefore I list the arguments, let me stress again something that gets lost in the shuffle: It’s okay that teen writers are not particularly good writers right now. To avoid this in the future, I am now creating this canonical “No, actually, your teenage writing does suck” piece, to provide ready answers to the usual arguments I see posted in the comment thread. But on the other hand I get tired of responding to the same arguments over and over. To be fair to the teens, the comment thread is now a few hundred posts long I don’t imagine I would now read all the way through it either. But, silly me, I forgot that in a rush to complain, the teenagers wouldn’t bother reading the comment thread, in which I refute many various arguments regarding non-suckage, before they banged out their comments. Now, to be sure, I expected this to happen. The only problem with this set-up is that reading the comments to the piece, it’s clear that quite a number of the teenagers reading the entry never got past the first point, in which they’re told their writing sucks, before making a comment that explains why teenage writing doesn’t suck - or, at the very least, why their teenage writing doesn’t suck. They might not listen (I probably wouldn’t have), but they deserve the truth nevertheless. I thought it was important to get that bit of news out of the way, because among other things, the fact that teenage writing sucks isn’t a bad thing (that’s point number 2), and because I think it’s not a bad thing to be honest with teenagers about this stuff. More than a year ago I wrote my “10 Things Teenage Writers Should Know About Writing” entry, which had ten bits of useful information for teen writers, the first of which was “The Bad News: Right Now, Your Writing Sucks.” Because, well, it probably does: Most teenage writers, for various reasons, aren’t particularly good writers (I wasn’t). What you see in CbC = the book folder content + your act structure, chapter numbers and summary (the bottom view).On Teens, and the Fact Their Writing Sucks ![]() Choose a name for this chapter, the belonging doc file will then be created in the book folder. ![]() doc chapter files will take place) and right-click on the first act item to add a chapter. So, begin with creating a new book with the Book>New menu (you choose a book folder where the CbC file and all. doc files) where the chapter number should appear, CbC will replace it with the correct chapter number. The only thing you should know: add the '#' symbol at the beginning of your chapters (in the. Using CbC is pretty straight forward: a few menus, drag'n drop in the treeview, right-click on treeview items (act or chapter) to show their contextual menu, and double-click on a chapter to open it in Word. That means it doesn't change the content of your Word doc files, except the act/chapter numbers (which are automatically handled) and for search/replace text in all doc files (which are opened in Word, modified, and waiting to be saved manually by the user). Note: CbC is not a manuscript formatting tool. Some writers also used Office Binder in Word 97 and Word 2000 to merge their doc files, but Microsoft dropped this application in later versions of Word. So, the idea was to mimic this feature from out of Word with another application running independently and driving Word. When the book is finished (or whenever the writer wants), CbC generates that big file.ĬbC was developed because the Master Document feature of Word was too complex and very buggy (it corrupts documents). It allows managing and organizing chapters within a book far easier than in Word just because it deals with one doc file per chapter rather than one big file containing the whole book. Update : CbC does not work with Windows 8Ĭhapter by Chapter ("CbC") is a software for novel writers who use Microsoft Word intensively. Requires Word 97 or later (including Word 2007) - CbC is freeware! Download ChapterB圜hapterSetup1.7.zip for Windows ( version history) ![]()
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