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+No, there is nothing wrong with your mobile 
+device or your computer. This was how my world  
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+was when my kid was born 11 years ago.
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+Hello, I am Bala Ramadurai, author, professor 
+and consultant. 11 years ago in Bangalore,  
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+my son was born. My wife and I had hardly slept 
+through those days. That's when my grandma  
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+visited us to take a look at her great grandson. 
+As joyous as that sounded, it came with a peril.  
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+My grandma was a Scrabble addict. She hardly 
+spent any time at all with her great grandson,  
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+but she spent most of her time playing Scrabble. 
+She insisted that my wife and I join her.  
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+That's when an idea dawned on me to write about 
+my Scrabble obsessed grandma. What if I could  
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+make it into a novel. Not many people have 
+Scrabble obsessed grandmothers, after all.
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+I wanted to expand this to a novel, but did 
+not know how. I bumped into Dan Wells' video  
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+on 7-point story structure. I was now convinced 
+that a seed idea could indeed be converted into  
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+a novel, so I tried out many tools at the 
+time - million dollar tools like MS Word,  
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+Excel, Scrivener and the lot. In my research of 
+tools, I found that George RR Martin famously  
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+had used Wordstar for typing out Game of 
+Thrones. At that point, I remembered about  
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+an old editor - Emacs. I knew about Emacs from 
+my undergrad days and my earlier software days.  
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+Thanks to the emacs community and particularly 
+the orgmode community, I had what I wanted.
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+Now, it was time to put the idea into action. 
+I used another method called snowflake and also  
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+Tony Ballantyne's emacs writing template. The main 
+features from org-mode that I used - fold, unfold,  
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+columnview, tags, distraction-free writing 
+experience, clocking, project tracking and export.
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+Now, the demo. We start with the plotline (a one 
+line summary of the story). Then we write out the  
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+characters, describing them in detail. Write 
+the main story arc, followed by the secondary  
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+character story arcs. Here is where org-mode 
+really scores. Move the points in the story  
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+structure to form a coherent story. We 
+get into location research. Write them  
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+all out in the columns. Once you are satisfied, 
+now scene design. Each point in the story  
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+requires at least one scene. In columnview, 
+you can see many things - Act, scene,  
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+story point, location, POV or point of 
+view. Make sure you finish this and read  
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+the whole story if it makes sense. Now, create 
+a project file to track your project and clock  
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+your project to see how long it takes. I used 
+a similar structure for my non-fiction book,  
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+which I published recently, all 
+written and edited in emacs-org-mode.
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+Thanks to you guys at the community, I 
+am now a published author and I plan to  
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+publish and help other authors publish using this 
+wonderful tool called emacs-org-mode. Thank You.