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  • It really depends on how you tell the story as to how to look at it.

    I mean like, with flashbacks you give some info while giving the reader a reason to keep buying your stories, you can achieve this chronologically too, of course.

    With chronological storylines, you need to end the previous story on a note to bring them back (e.g include the first 1/4 to half of the first chapter, or even the whole chapter) showing the story continues, definitely don’t end on some kind of “to be continued” line.

    I generally don’t work with series, so I’m no expert on this.

    I build my stories as I write. Although I usually do have the plot line figured out before I begin.


  • Unless your story depends on chronology of events, I wouldn’t worry too much about it.

    You could always do flashback scenes to fill in some of the gaps in your timeline. If your stories run a linear path you could do the chronology way.

    If you do that, I would suggest focusing on different sets of characters in each story’s event calendar, rather than try and base it all on one group of people elsewhere in the storyline.






  • Efwis@lemmy.ziptoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    5 months ago

    Unionize. Have companies pay you fairly for what you do.

    The problem with that here I. The states are two fold. First of all if the companies could, at least here in the states, they wouldn’t allow unionization. They don’t want to pay fairly for what you do. All these companies want to do is make as much money as possible, while paying the workers as little as possible.

    Most of the companies here would like us to work until we die on the lines, but pay us nothing to do the work so they could make it all. Companies don’t give a damn about workers rights, or being fair to us. A lot of non-union shops will fire you for trying to bring a union in. They would be extremely happy if the labor boards, OSHA etc would cease to exist.




  • Efwis@lemmy.ziptoLinux@lemmy.world2024 XPS Laptops?
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    7 months ago

    It appears that the XPS 13 will be the only dev edition according to everything I’m seeing from searching. Even Dell isn’t answering that question. However from what I have seen on forum posts, including one within the last 3 days the answer may be no, at least for now.


  • Actually yes, if we didn’t wear shoes all the time. The bottom of your feet will be more hardened from calluses where it meets the ground. Think about it this way, when we are kids we run around shoeless most of the time. For all intents and purposes, shoes have ruined our feet. Either by crushing them together, like women’s pointed shoes and men’s cowboy boots as an example, as well as allowing the soles of our feet to soften. As a kid I used to run up and down gravel roads and driveways barefoot without a care in the world, now the bottom of my feet can’t handle stepping on gravel without shoes.




  • Efwis@lemmy.ziptoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldLawrence
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    8 months ago

    Trust me, it’s not just satire.

    I was in a homeless shelter about 7 years ago, unfortunately as a resident, and this dude I shared my room with was like 40 and would post on his Facebook profile that he was looking for a godly woman who doesn’t want to work and wants kids. His description of her was as follows:

    Must be blonde, 5 foot to 5.5 foot tall, weigh no more than 110 lbs, must be religious to the only point of life was serving god and him. She must be no older than 25 and big boobs and perfect breeding hips.

    This dude was 40, 300 lbs, 6ft tall. Took a shower once a week, worked at pilgrims chicken on the kill floor, and was so slow it took him 10 minutes to walk up a 100ft driveway from where the bus dropped him off. And yet he could never understand why No women wanted anything to do with him







  • I’ve been on Linux for 20+ years and have never had to rely on paid for support. The paid for support is really geared towards professional big business work stations and server stacks. If you need support for Linux you can find free support on their forums 99% of the time. It’s the IT departments with lazy techs that rely on Linux paid support.

    You are right about the Micro$uck hate though. Why should I pay to use an operating system on a computer I buy and use until it’s reached it’s EOL when I can use Linux to do everything you do on windows and I don’t have to pay for the software? In today’s economy, it makes sense to use Linux.