• New API doc course topic: Using AI For thematic analysis

    Updated: 2023-08-28 07:00:00
    : : Blog API documentation course Course home Chapter 1 : Introduction to REST APIs Chapter 2 : Using an API like a developer Chapter 3 : Documenting API endpoints Chapter 4 : OpenAPI spec and generated reference docs Chapter 5 : Step-by-step OpenAPI code tutorial Chapter 6 : Testing API docs Chapter 7 : Conceptual topics in API docs Chapter 8 : Code tutorials Chapter 9 : The writing process Chapter 10 : Publishing API docs Chapter 11 : Thriving in the API doc space Chapter 12 : Native library APIs Chapter 13 : Processes and methodology Chapter 14 : Metrics and measurement Chapter 15 : AI tools and API documentation Chapter 16 : Additional resources Downloads Download PDFs Shop About About me Contact Presentations Newsletter Site analytics Advertising GitHub repo I'd Rather Be Writing

  • Writing Gamebooks the Uncle Mac Way

    Updated: 2023-08-19 17:20:00
    : Lloyd of Gamebooks A blog about writing gamebooks . My musings on how to write a gamebook and what makes a good gamebook . Create your story here Saturday , August 19, 2023 Writing Gamebooks the Uncle Mac Way All right , kids , gather round and park your butts . Uncle Mac is gonna talk your ear off for a . bit Quite a few of you write gamebooks , or want to write them and are still figuring out the best way to do it . Word on the net is there are a number of softwares you can use to help navigate the labyrinthine process of piecing a gamebook together . I shall refrain from commenting on those , because I am what you might call a cantankerous old coot and prefer not to go out of my way to learn newfangled technologies if I don't find it absolutely . necessary Writing screenplays , for

  • The Blind Side was always bad (This week in books)

    Updated: 2023-08-18 19:00:00
    This week! Books! The blog is going to take an end-of-summer hiatus over the next few weeks and I’ll be back here after Labor Day. Also…………….. how is summer almost over?? I have very proudly never read/watched one of the paragons of white savior narratives The Blind Side, but some extremely distressing allegations emerged around […]

  • Key details are the difference between generic and unique (page critique)

    Updated: 2023-08-17 19:00:00
    If you’d like to nominate your own page or query for a public critique, kindly post them here in the discussion forums: Also, if you’d like to test your editing chops, keep your eye on this area or this area! I’ll post the pages and queries a few days before a critique so you can see how your […]

  • The more a character puts in a bucket, the more there is to spill

    Updated: 2023-08-14 19:00:22
    Writers are often told that they need to raise the stakes, crystalize the stakes, sharpen the stakes, stakes stakes stakes. In fact, we hear it so much I worry sometimes writers think it means that unless literally saving the world is at stake in their novel, they don’t have the right stakes to pursue traditional […]

  • S&S acquired by private equity. What does it mean for the book business? (This week in books)

    Updated: 2023-08-11 19:00:00
    This week! Books! A big domino in book publishing fell this month as private equity behemoth KKR has acquired Simon & Schuster for $1.62 billion, rather less than the $2.175 billion Penguin Random House agreed to before that deal was quashed by a federal judge, though the blow to Paramount was softened by the $200 […]

  • New API doc course topic: Using AI for language advice

    Updated: 2023-08-09 07:00:00
    : : Blog API documentation course Course home Chapter 1 : Introduction to REST APIs Chapter 2 : Using an API like a developer Chapter 3 : Documenting API endpoints Chapter 4 : OpenAPI spec and generated reference docs Chapter 5 : Step-by-step OpenAPI code tutorial Chapter 6 : Testing API docs Chapter 7 : Conceptual topics in API docs Chapter 8 : Code tutorials Chapter 9 : The writing process Chapter 10 : Publishing API docs Chapter 11 : Thriving in the API doc space Chapter 12 : Native library APIs Chapter 13 : Processes and methodology Chapter 14 : Metrics and measurement Chapter 15 : AI tools and API documentation Chapter 16 : Additional resources Downloads Download PDFs Shop About About me Contact Presentations Newsletter Site analytics Advertising GitHub repo I'd Rather Be Writing

  • New API doc course topic: Using AI to create doc updates based on bugs

    Updated: 2023-08-09 07:00:00
    : : Blog API documentation course Course home Chapter 1 : Introduction to REST APIs Chapter 2 : Using an API like a developer Chapter 3 : Documenting API endpoints Chapter 4 : OpenAPI spec and generated reference docs Chapter 5 : Step-by-step OpenAPI code tutorial Chapter 6 : Testing API docs Chapter 7 : Conceptual topics in API docs Chapter 8 : Code tutorials Chapter 9 : The writing process Chapter 10 : Publishing API docs Chapter 11 : Thriving in the API doc space Chapter 12 : Native library APIs Chapter 13 : Processes and methodology Chapter 14 : Metrics and measurement Chapter 15 : AI tools and API documentation Chapter 16 : Additional resources Downloads Download PDFs Shop About About me Contact Presentations Newsletter Site analytics Advertising GitHub repo I'd Rather Be Writing

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