I blew my 5 hour window in less than an hour doing a pre-release code review of the entire Bookweaver app. Fixed what should be the last of the bugs, doubled its speed and cut its costs even more and added a few extras, but now i have to wait until I can it continue. Before I went to bed this morning I blew the first window finishing up the plan for a while new piece of the puzzle. Anyone interested in writing branching fiction? This is Choose Your own Adventure style books and online visual novels. I have a 120 page brief created for this. There are only a couple of tools available for the first part and ren'py is the top app for Visual novels. I originally got started writing seriously again for Nanowrimo 2023 and then got interested in interactive fiction and visual novels (pre-ai). Now I'm coming full circle with this and seeing a point where what we create can easily become interactive fiction and immersive fiction (holo novel style from star trek in VR for instance). Last night i was playing with plotcrafter and bookweaver and two hilarious plots came up on a semi-random roll that my lovely and wonderful wife thought would be awesome movies more than books and even started laying out the cast of actors needed. I mentioned that yes converting a novel to a screenplay was on the roadmap for wcp (eventually..its a long and ever twistier road) and this thought occurred to me. We are not long from becoming movie producers as well as writers. As fast as Ai generated movies are being made i can see in the very near future an app that can take a manuscript, create the screenplay, character cards, keyframes, location shots, and put it altogether at major motion picture quality. I haven't had time (or stolen/taken/kidnapped the time needed) to keep up with video. Keeping up with image creation and ai updates is the limit of my bandwidth right now. I've seen a couple of *really* good short movies made by AI (less than thn minutes) that amazed me. They need help with transitions and voices. Why do ALL ai created voices sound so compressed? two of them were made in less than a day.

Writing Through Resistance (Not Through Pretending It's Not There) At some point in every project, I stop wanting to write it. Not because it's bad. Not because I've run out of ideas. Not because the story isn't working. Just because the initial charge of the new idea has worn off and what's left is work. For a long time I treated this as a signal. The resistance meant something was wrong. Maybe the story wasn't right for me. Maybe I needed a different project. Maybe I should take a break and come back fresh. What I've figured out is that the resistance is just the project settling into reality. It happens to almost everything at around the same point. And the authors who finish books aren't the ones who don't feel resistance. They're the ones who stopped treating it as meaningful information. What Resistance Actually Is The new project feeling is a neurochemical event. Novelty generates dopamine. Your brain rewards you for starting. It does not reward you at the same rate for continuing. By the time you're thirty or forty percent into a draft, the novelty has expired. The reward system has recalibrated. The work now generates satisfaction in a different, slower way, the kind that comes from completion and craft, not from the buzz of beginning. The writers who get stuck at 40% aren't less talented or less dedicated. They're just misreading what the resistance means. They think the low-reward phase is a sign the project is wrong. It's not. It's a sign the project has become real. What I Do With It Instead A few things that actually help: Name the specific friction, not just the general feeling. "I don't want to write" is too vague to fix. "I don't know what happens when she gets to the warehouse" is a problem with a solution. Most resistance dissolves when you identify what specifically is causing it. Lower the bar for the next session. The blank page is the hardest part. If you end a session by writing the first line of the next scene before you close the document, the next session has somewhere to start. The resistance is about starting. Give yourself a start.

The Hybrid Outlining Method (Plotters and Pantsers Welcome) The plotter-versus-pantser debate is one of those conversations that feels important and is mostly a distraction. Here's what's actually true: pure plotting produces manuscripts that feel engineered. Pure pantsing produces manuscripts that meander. Most published novels are written by people who do some version of both, even if they don't call it that. The hybrid method isn't a compromise. It's just an accurate description of how stories actually get written. What the Hybrid Method Is The core principle: lock the bones, discover the flesh. You decide a small number of structural anchors in advance. These are the plot points that cannot move without requiring a completely different story. Everything between those anchors is discovered during drafting. For a novel, the anchors are usually: The opening image or situation (what the reader walks into). The inciting incident (what forces the story into motion). The midpoint (what changes the direction of the second half). The crisis (the worst moment, where everything is lost). The resolution (where things end, even if you don't know exactly how they get there). Five points. That's the skeleton. Everything else, all the scenes and beats and character moments and subplots, gets discovered in the draft. Why This Works Better Than Either Extreme The plotter's problem is over-determination. When every scene is plotted in advance, the draft stops being a discovery process and becomes transcription. The writer stops listening to what the characters are doing and starts forcing them to hit marks. The prose knows it. The pantser's problem is structural drift. Without anchors, the story tends to follow whatever is most interesting in the moment, which is not always what the story needs. The second half loses shape. The ending arrives before the reader is ready or long after they've stopped caring. The hybrid method gets you a container that holds the story's shape without predetermining its texture.

I call this Dynamic inline prompting. I did a quick 4 minute video to show how this is used and while its a simple little addition it is incredibly powerful! Select a Block of text up to 2000 Characters and in the pop-up menu that shows up there is a new option "Custom Rewrite" . Choose "Custom Rewrite and a window opens showing you the text you selected a drop down with a selection of inline prompts you can create or I can share with you to reuse over and over again OR... Now you can write a short prompt to modify the selected text using the current selected model. It will show you the result and you can choose to retry, close the window, or replace the selected text with the new. AND.... you can use any of the inline prompts from the list as a starter and edit them for your use right now! Examples: Make more tense, add more steam, make this more detailed, I tried adding a couple of extra pictures below but skool wouldn't let me. If you are working now, just refresh the page and it will work.

🙏 July 2, 2026 – Today's Prayer 🙏 Scripture of the Day "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He chose for His inheritance." Psalm 33:12 (NIV) Heavenly Father, Thank You for the gift of another day and for the blessings You have poured out upon our nation. We recognize that every good and perfect gift comes from You alone. Lord, may we always be a people who seek Your face, honor Your Word, and place our trust in You above all else. Guide our leaders with wisdom, strengthen our families with love, and unite our communities with compassion and grace. Help us to stand firm in our faith, to live with integrity, and to be a light in a world that desperately needs Your truth. May our words bring encouragement, our actions reflect Christ, and our lives point others to the hope that is found in Jesus. Protect those who serve our country, comfort those who are hurting, and remind us that true freedom is found in You. Fill our hearts with gratitude for yesterday, courage for today, and hope for tomorrow. Thank You for Your unfailing love, Your constant presence, and Your faithful promises that never fail. In Jesus' precious name I pray, Amen. ❤️🤍💙✝️ Stacey