@ruthheasman since you are a writer, you may extract some v…

steffenkd ·

@ruthheasman since you are a writer, you may extract some value.

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ruthheasman ·

Hey @steffenkd (Steffen Solling) is that you? Lovely to see you here! 😃 I just had a watch, very interesting. I actually wrote the first half of my novel in Treechat, funnily enough and it was great as I had all my notes and Codex - detailing the characters, locations, story arcs, etc in their own separate branches. It was very fast to switch between branches/views. I finished the novel using a very tailored piece of browser based software called Novelcrafter.com, which I can’t say enough good things about! Treechat wasn’t quite as full featured as it is now back then. One of the nice things about Treechat is that it has a natural sort of version control (superior actually to Novelcrafter) because you don’t ever need to overwrite a chapter—simply place it further along in the branch—which is very natural. But the editing tools and export functions in Novelcrafter were better for my purpose. I would highly recommend either though. The fact that it’s web based means it’s synced across all my devices, like the Vim product. And it can output to different formats as well, which is critical. Are you writing? I am working on the sequel, albeit slowly, as my magpie brain keeps getting diverted to the latest shiny thing. I’ve been coding a lot the past few weeks and loving it!

steffenkd ·

No, I am not Steffen Solling, but Steffen ist my real name and my last name has a K and a d in it^^.

Sounds like a similar approach to the Theena guy from the video.
I never thought about the obvious need for an author keeping track of his characters evolvement and the stories plot.
I always thought they keep it all in their mind and just write, reread and do some correction until it is finished.
It was a completely new concept, but made quite sense.
There is also a chapter in the "Dune series" by Frank Herbert which i recently read, written by his son where he explains some concepts his father (Frank Herbert) used.

At the moment I wanted to focus on some bitcoin education/explanation content.
Because I believe that the original concept/design is highly misunderstood.
I probably do not understand it as well, but maybe a little bit better than others.
And no matter if Craig is Satoshi but in my opinion he isn't doing a good job explaining it in a simple way.
And since I got it in my head and probably spent hundreds of hours understanding it, it would be a waste not putting it out.

I just looked into novelcraft.
It sounds similar to what I can do with NeoVim and my Zettelkasten besides the AI stuff.
Which can be done on treechat as it seems^^.
Funfact: neovim is a fork of vim, which got its original name from a unix text editor called Vi, like the character in your book.
And great to see it listed on Kobo, therefore I do not have to ask you if I can purchase it directly from you as epub.
Another reason why I hope for bitcoin to take over someday: the walled gardens with oits different formats, copyrights, drms and so on.

ruthheasman ·

Ah sorry to misidentify you. I think I’ve seen Steffen Solling on here before and it’s not a common name, to me at least. Well, lovely to meet you too! You should totally write up the Bitcoin explanation your way. It would be good to have some books that explain it in more linear terms than CSW does, though the Whitepaper is a masterpiece of brevity of course. I sort of attempted that too in my novel, though not sure how successful I was. Unsurprisingly, it’s really rather difficult to coherently explain it in layman’s terms, especially as part of a pacy plot! LOL 😂 It does slow it all down somewhat. But I was damned if I was going to dumb it down or leave out important parts. Hope you enjoy it if get hold of it! I don’t think you have to keep a codex to write a novel, but it sure does help, especially as I’m now writing a sequel.