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authorSacha Chua <sacha@sachachua.com>2023-10-14 18:15:50 -0400
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would have appreciated, and something I definitely appreciate, because it
saved my novel.
+About the speaker:
+
+I'm Edmund Jorgensen, a software engineer by day and a writer by night, using
+Emacs for both. When one of my novels threatened to collapse under the weight
+of its own subplots, org-mode's powerful blending of structure and prose
+rescued it. I'd like to show you how that worked, and how much of org-mode's
+power for writing comes from its similarity to Nabokov's famous
+index-card-based writing process.
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