Kem Herkes<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 11 Apr: Do you use spreadsheets to help in your process? If so, how, and why?</p><p>I keep a workbook for my series bible. Rows & columns in tabbed sheets make an excellent framework for organizing interconnected data. I have sheets for overall timelines, age timelines, book timelines etc, plus lists of names & places etc. I even have tabs for pasted-in map images)</p><p>But I do not use spreadsheets *as* spreadsheets, since it's rare for me to enter numbers & I calculate nothing.</p>
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Aurora<p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 12/04: Shameless self-promotion day. Show us what you're proud of. </p><p>You know me, I ALWAYS highjack this to show OTHER people's work instead. I was very proud that I could chip in some euros to give this beautiful hand pottered drinking vessel to a friend together with other friend last year. It was made by a feminist Black potter from my mother's hometown.</p><p>(If you use instagram find more of her work @ potterinnadine)</p>
Ian Scraper<p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> Apr 11: Do you use spreadsheets to help in your process? If so, how do you use them, and what makes them better than other tools?</p><p>The road to hell is paved with spreadsheets.</p><p>I don't like it hot. For this reason, I do not use them for my writing. ;-)</p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/spreadsheets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spreadsheets</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a></p>
Plotting and penning<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> Apr 11: Do you use spreadsheets to help in your process? If so, how do you use them, and what makes them better than other tools?</p><p>I use spreadsheets to help me revise. After I finish the first draft, I transfer important events onto the spreadsheet, and then I can see where the holes are and what needs to be developed more.</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritingLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingLife</span></a></p>
Hannah Steenbock<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 4/11. Do you use spreadsheets to help in your process? </p><p>My series bibles usually take the form of a spreadsheet - one tab per book, plus one general one.</p><p>I tried working with writing aids like Scrivener and such, and somehow, I could never adapt to them.</p><p>So I write in Libre Writer and keep my series details in Libre Calc. Whatever works, right?</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
amPennyfeather<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 4/11. Do you use spreadsheets to help in your process? </p><p>No. <br>Bibisco tracks and graphs anything I might want tracked, but I honestly don't really care about much - other than maybe word count.</p>
Patch Arcana<p><a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> for April 11:</p><blockquote><p>Do you use spreadsheets to help in your process? If so, how do you use them, and what makes them better than other tools?</p></blockquote><p>Hey kids, do you want watch me piss off <em>all</em> the computer people who follow me at once?</p><p>Yeah, I use spreadsheets all the time. It turns out, when you don't need to worry about the scalability of your solution, a spreadsheet is <em>very often the right and expedient choice</em>.</p><p>So I use them a lot. Financial summation, calculations on pricing for my Tindie store or for live events, sometimes storing BOMs for projects. Also for work, because when all you're doing is trying to keep up with a few hundred infrequently updated JIRA tickets, maintaining a whole complex interleved API application backed by a SQLite database is really just asking your bosses to pay you to waste time.</p><p>For writing, less useful. That's what my ability to spin up a fresh wiki in ~10 minutes is for.</p>
Steve DeGroof 📚🛸<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> Apr 11: Do you use spreadsheets to help in your process?</p><p>Oh yeah. I've put together this whole multi-tab spreadsheet for organizing a WIP. There are 8 tabs, and I use the ones most appropriate for the thing I'm working on.</p>
Art of Goulwen R<p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/scribesandmakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scribesandmakers</span></a> today’s question makes me think of this Japanese who uses <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Excel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Excel</span></a> to do art </p><p><a href="https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/12/tatsuo-horiuchi-excel-artist/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thisiscolossal.com/2017/12/tat</span><span class="invisible">suo-horiuchi-excel-artist/</span></a></p><p>Probably the best use of a <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/spreadsheet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spreadsheet</span></a> IMHO</p>
Amalia Zeichnerin<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> Apr 11. Do you use spreadsheets to help in your process? If so, how do you use them, and what makes them better than other tools?</p><p>I use them for characters in my books with points like looks, age, job or education, relationships to other characters, character traits (for instance strenghts and weaknesses) and more.</p><p>The spreadsheet helps me to keep an overview and this is especially helpful in book series with lots of characters.</p>
Anderlandbooks<p><a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> Apr 11. Do you use spreadsheets to help in your process? If so, how do you use them, and what makes them better than other tools?</p><p>Yes. I use them to keep track of my timeline (and the respective ages of important characters). I also use them to check my chapter lengths, although this is more for orientation than a rigid rule.</p><p>And I used them for personage in historical novels because I can filter for date of birth and death etc. Won't do to include someone who's already dead</p>
Simon Roy Hughes 🍄<p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 4/11. Do you use spreadsheets to help in your process? If so, how do you use them, and what makes them better than other tools?</p><p>Spreadsheets are for numbers and calculations, and I use them for that: budgets, accounts, etc. </p><p>I manage everything else in plain text files: lists, directories, plans, overviews, and so on.</p><p>It works for me; I have come to realise that I am a little ... unusual in my work habits.</p>
Art of Goulwen R<p>Do you use spreadsheets to help in your process? If so, how do you use them, and what makes them better than other tools?</p><p>The only use I have for spreadsheets is listing the publishers whom I sent Esther and Érié’s file</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 2025-04-11</p>
Hannah Steenbock<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 4/10. Show us a book cover you like. What makes it special?</p><p>This is the cover of my fourth Wolf book.</p><p>I love it so much because the designer got both Ashley and Connor so right. I remember that when I got it, I used to pull it up and just stare at it.</p><p>You see, I often can't see the faces of my characters in clarity while I write them. Sometimes, only the cover fixes their faces for me. (<a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a>)</p><p>Anyway, enjoy "A Wolf's Fury".</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <br><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WolfShifter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WolfShifter</span></a></p>
Anna Saultron<p>10.04.25 Show us a book cover you like. What makes it special?</p><p>Narrowed it down to eight... That's why I didn't wanted to answer the lyrics question...</p><p>Rolling a D8 here for non roleplaying persons that's an 8 sided dice. And I will not go into much details about the content of the book.</p><p>And the roll shows a 2.</p><p>So on spot two I placed Harleen by Stjepan Sejic. A graphic novel about Harley Quinn from the DC Comics Multiverse especially around Batman. She is probably best known as the Jokers Sidekick or from the Suicide Squad Movies. Details and what makes it special to me are in the alt Text.</p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 10.04.25 <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/GraphicNovel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GraphicNovel</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/DCComics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DCComics</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/StjepanSejic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StjepanSejic</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Harleen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Harleen</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 2504.10 2/2 — Show us a book cover you like. What makes it special?</p></blockquote><p>Well, I like the cover I mocked up for my web-novel. What makes it special other than I did all the work? It sets the tone for what <em>isn't</em> seen in the story since most of the scenes either occur inside domes on Mars or inside an arcology on Earth. There's a lack of contrast between living on Mars and Earth.</p><p>The image is from Jezero crater. When the protagonist's eldest daughter finishes training 2,000 young people her age to wear Mars suits, in celebration, she asks to visit in a scene late in the book because it's so "famous."</p><p>The Mars globe in a Triskelion is the tattoo all the Mars contract colonists imported from Earth wear on their right forearm.</p><p>I like the overall effect of the image and the metallic wire lettering, with the tiny bit of asymmetry, as it evokes a sense of quiet desolation. With a very thin atmosphere, Mars is often very quiet and I see the cover as contemplative.</p><p>Not sure whether a publisher's marketing department would think it would sell the book, however.</p><p>More in <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/AltText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AltText</span></a></p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a> and <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CommentingIsCool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommentingIsCool</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sf</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sff</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSstory</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSMarsNeededWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSMarsNeededWomen</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 2504.10 1/2 — Show us a book cover you like. What makes it special?</p></blockquote><p>What makes the covers of Patricia Briggs Coyote Shapeshifter novels special is the depiction of the main character, Mercy Thompson, specifically her ethnicity and her profession. Take note of the paw print under her navel. I think the covers are a good compromise between her depiction in the stories and what the publisher's marketing department expects will sell. I consider the stories feminist, and I highly recommend them.</p><p>More in <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/AltText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AltText</span></a> </p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a></p>
GaH Learner<p>April 10. Show us a book cover you like. What makes it special?</p><p>I like many book covers, but three that drew me in and then made me read almost every book from the author are the early (and reissued) covers for Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry, made by Martin Springett. It's epic fantasy, it's portal fantasy, it's a quest, it's heartbreakingly sad, sometimes funny, with reluctant heroes and everything else I love about fantasy. I love these books, and these covers.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/GL425" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GL425</span></a></p>
Kagan MacTane (he/him)<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> Day 10: Show us a book cover you like. What makes it special?</p><p>What makes this cover special is hopefully obvious just by looking at it (or reading the alt text): the workmanship, materials, and attention to detail; the elegance of the design and the way it reflects two central themes of the story within (namely, the Two Trees of Valinor and the three Silmarils that captured their light).</p>
Sandra Bond<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> April 10. Show us a book cover you like. What makes it special?</p><p>Most people seem to be picking a book of their own, rather than something written by someone else, so let's go with the crowd.</p><p>I was astonished by the sheer artistic skill of Dan Steffan in the cover for THREE MEN IN ORBIT, and the knowledge that my book inspired its creation blew my little mind (man).</p>
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