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<entry><title>Why long stories break in the seams, and how to check for it</title><link href="https://author.geenius-os.tech/blog/why-long-stories-break-in-the-seams/"/><id>https://author.geenius-os.tech/blog/why-long-stories-break-in-the-seams/</id><updated>2026-10-17T09:00:00Z</updated><published>2026-10-17T09:00:00Z</published><author><name>The Author team</name></author><summary>The continuity errors that survive editing, why they happen in long books, and the small set of rules that catch most of them without reading the text.</summary><category term="continuity"/><category term="product"/></entry>
<entry><title>Track what your characters know: events, not notes</title><link href="https://author.geenius-os.tech/blog/track-what-your-characters-know/"/><id>https://author.geenius-os.tech/blog/track-what-your-characters-know/</id><updated>2026-10-17T09:00:00Z</updated><published>2026-10-17T09:00:00Z</published><author><name>The Author team</name></author><summary>A practical way to keep a secret straight across a novel: write it as events with effects, so a character&apos;s knowledge at any scene can be asked for instead of remembered.</summary><category term="how-to"/><category term="story"/></entry>
<entry><title>A timeline you can zoom from the year to the minute</title><link href="https://author.geenius-os.tech/blog/a-timeline-you-can-zoom/"/><id>https://author.geenius-os.tech/blog/a-timeline-you-can-zoom/</id><updated>2026-10-17T09:00:00Z</updated><published>2026-10-17T09:00:00Z</published><author><name>The Author team</name></author><summary>Why a story needs both a long view and a short one, how folded gaps and reading order help, and how to use the zoom levels in practice.</summary><category term="how-to"/><category term="timeline"/></entry>
<entry><title>Beta readers without the chaos: frozen versions and comments on the paragraph</title><link href="https://author.geenius-os.tech/blog/beta-readers-without-the-chaos/"/><id>https://author.geenius-os.tech/blog/beta-readers-without-the-chaos/</id><updated>2026-10-17T09:00:00Z</updated><published>2026-10-17T09:00:00Z</published><author><name>The Author team</name></author><summary>How to run a round of beta reading so feedback is about one version and attached to the text it is about, and how to compare rounds afterwards.</summary><category term="how-to"/><category term="readers"/></entry>
<entry><title>Writing with an AI while the book keeps the facts</title><link href="https://author.geenius-os.tech/blog/write-with-an-ai-while-the-book-keeps-the-facts/"/><id>https://author.geenius-os.tech/blog/write-with-an-ai-while-the-book-keeps-the-facts/</id><updated>2026-10-17T09:00:00Z</updated><published>2026-10-17T09:00:00Z</published><author><name>The Author team</name></author><summary>How to let your own AI draft with a long book in view: read the state first, save a version, write with a revision, run the checks. And what Author deliberately does not do.</summary><category term="mcp"/><category term="how-to"/></entry>
<entry><title>Six outline templates compared: when to use which</title><link href="https://author.geenius-os.tech/blog/six-outline-templates-compared/"/><id>https://author.geenius-os.tech/blog/six-outline-templates-compared/</id><updated>2026-10-17T09:00:00Z</updated><published>2026-10-17T09:00:00Z</published><author><name>The Author team</name></author><summary>Three acts, the hero&apos;s journey, Save the Cat, seven-point structure, Freytag&apos;s pyramid and kishōtenketsu: what each is good for and when it gets in the way.</summary><category term="comparison"/><category term="structure"/></entry>
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