Benji Smith in The Shaxpir Blog

Aug 7, 2023

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Taking Down Prosecraft.io

Today, I’m taking down the prosecraft.io website, which had previously been dedicated to the linguistic analysis…

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Benji Smith in The Shaxpir Blog

Oct 27, 2017

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Prosecraft: Linguistics for Literature

Make your writing more vivid by mindfully comparing your prose…

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167

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Benji Smith in The Shaxpir Blog

Oct 16, 2018

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Top 10 reasons to use Shaxpir for NaNoWriMo this year

(#7 will blow your mind)

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Benji Smith in The Shaxpir Blog

Nov 3, 2017

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Thoughts on Passive Voice

How auxiliary verbs create a sense of detachment and pull the reader out of the story.

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Benji Smith in The Shaxpir Blog

Jul 9, 2018

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Writing Vivid Prose

Make your writing vivid, by choosing words that invoke a rich sensory experience…

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277

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Benji Smith in The Shaxpir Blog

Mar 21, 2017

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Choosing between Shaxpir and Scrivener

How to pick the best writing platform for your next novel (and the one after that).

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Benji Smith in The Shaxpir Blog

Apr 29, 2019

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Learning Shaxpir: The World-Building Notebook

Brainstorm your next novel by building a rich, elaborate…

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259

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Benji Smith in The Shaxpir Blog

Mar 14, 2017

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Shaxpir is for Everyone

Our unique novel-writing & self-publishing platform is now available to everyone, for free…

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Benji Smith in The Shaxpir Blog

Oct 5, 2018

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Shaxpir 4.5: Automatic Popup Thesaurus

We used A.I. algorithms to analyze a huge corpus of literature…

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Benji Smith in The Shaxpir Blog

Mar 27, 2018

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Announcing Shaxpir 4.4

See the Emotional Story Arc of your entire novel, using advanced Sentiment…

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