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--- alternate_history:how_to_tl [2019/07/04 11:12] – [Presentation] petike
+++ alternate_history:how_to_tl [2020/05/28 18:52] – [Discussions on writing timelines] petike
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 - //**[[offtopic:Petike]]'s advice:**//\\
-Choose the name of your timeline or story //carefully//. There's nothing more annoying than picking up a generic-sounding or cliché-sounding name for your writing project. You do want your readers to be able to differentiate your story from other stories immediately, and not spend a whole minute pondering whether this story is the same or different than a very similarly named story. Therefore, one particular area I'd like to advise against are "push-button titles". These are titles based on tired paraphrases of a popular idiom or an existing name template. They occur both in AH fiction and more general fiction. Some //notorious examples// of lazy push-button titles, out of many:\\
+Choose the name of your timeline or story //carefully//. There's nothing more annoying than picking up a generic-sounding or cliché-sounding name for your writing project. You do want your readers to be able to differentiate your story from other stories immediately, and not spend a whole minute pondering whether this story is the same or different than a very similarly named story. Therefore, one particular area I'd like to advise against are "push-button titles". These are titles based on tired paraphrases of a popular idiom or an existing name template. They occur both in AH fiction and more general fiction. Some //notorious examples// of lazy push-button titles on AH.com, out of many:\\
 - "Fear, Loathing and... [something, something]" (Hunter S. Thompson reference)\\
 - the use of the word "Camelot" in Kennedy-related US political/biographical timelines\\
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 **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/how-do-you-plan-a-timeline-without-getting-lost-in-the-detail.390034/|How do you plan a timeline without getting lost in the detail ?]]** - Advice thread.
+**[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/how-do-you-organize-research-data-for-a-timeline.489682/|How do you organize research data for a timeline?]]** - Advice thread. Organising notes.
 **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/i-wanna-write-a-tl-but.411855/|I wanna write a TL, but...]]** - Advice thread. Dealing with writer's block.