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Design Debate – Paging versus Scrolling
Read a recent Times article where it was discussing whether ‘page-turning’ is still relevant on electronic devices. Some quoted in the article suggested that page turning was less preferable than scrolling. They would be wrong. The page turning is essential for me to enjoy reading on a digital device. I wrote last year about my frustration with reading longer stories on the web because of how awkward scrolling is. To expand that point I really feel that page turning has many advantages. The most obvious is the inherent ‘memory’ that paging creates — it is easy for a reader to remember where they were, if interrupted, especially in an office…
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Codename: Defeating
Okay so I’ve started writing the ‘second novel’, which from now on will be referred to as Defeating. This novel is different in several ways from the ‘first novel’ (Ice Onion) which I’m currently revising with the intent to submit to published in early August. Defeating is an action adventure urban fantasy, that is a modern world with supernatural elements at play in it (and plenty of action) as opposed to Ice Onion which is an action adventure science-fiction novel. Defeating will also have several viewpoint characters, whereas Ice Onion has stuck with one. The last difference is that whereas Ice Onion was a brand new story idea, I’ve already…