Trevor Warren
@trevorwarrenauthor.bsky.social
I'm an indie author who's published his first book The Terror & The Sword, which won Bronze for Fantasy- Action & Adventure and Bronze for Fantasy- Sword & Sorcery in the 2025 Global Book Awards.
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https://trevorwarrenhq.substack.com/
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#7 There's no "Pick up where you left off" button in the browser version of Word. #WhyMicrosoft
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
#7 There's no "Pick up where you left off" button in the browser version of Word. #WhyMicrosoft
#6 When you highlight a word in one color, decide it doesn't need to be highlighted, so you revoke the highlight by clicking the "no color" option, then change you're mind and go to highlight it again, you can't use the original color and must use a different color. #WhyMicrosoft
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
#6 When you highlight a word in one color, decide it doesn't need to be highlighted, so you revoke the highlight by clicking the "no color" option, then change you're mind and go to highlight it again, you can't use the original color and must use a different color. #WhyMicrosoft
#5 Ctrl + left click doesn't allow you to select multiple parts of your document in Word Online. It's annoying if you want to highlight different sentences that aren't beside each other, and it makes it harder to check your word count when you're making revisions. #WhyMicrosoft
November 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
#5 Ctrl + left click doesn't allow you to select multiple parts of your document in Word Online. It's annoying if you want to highlight different sentences that aren't beside each other, and it makes it harder to check your word count when you're making revisions. #WhyMicrosoft
#4 I need to use the Word App to edit my book on OneDrive because it's "read only," though I never set it to that.
#WhyMicrosoft
#WhyMicrosoft
October 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM
#4 I need to use the Word App to edit my book on OneDrive because it's "read only," though I never set it to that.
#WhyMicrosoft
#WhyMicrosoft
#3 I saved one of my books in Word, the app, to OneDrive. I had expected that when I opened up the document in Word Online, there would be no changes. Most of the page numbers have disappeared, the layout of my title page is off, and many paragraphs have lost their indentation. Why Microsoft? Why?
October 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
#3 I saved one of my books in Word, the app, to OneDrive. I had expected that when I opened up the document in Word Online, there would be no changes. Most of the page numbers have disappeared, the layout of my title page is off, and many paragraphs have lost their indentation. Why Microsoft? Why?
# 2 Word Online, or whatever it's called, tends to set my alignment to justify when all I did was hit "enter" for a new paragraph, then "tab" for an indentation. I've never had this problem in the app, nor in Google Docs. To have problems with such basic functions of a word processor is frustrating.
October 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
# 2 Word Online, or whatever it's called, tends to set my alignment to justify when all I did was hit "enter" for a new paragraph, then "tab" for an indentation. I've never had this problem in the app, nor in Google Docs. To have problems with such basic functions of a word processor is frustrating.
I've switched to Word Online recently and I'm not a fan.
#1 It's slow. Right now, I'm typing at about the same pace I do while working on a book, and Blue Sky has no trouble keeping up with me, but I have to wait for it to catch up, particularly when I'm typing fast and then go to delete words.
#1 It's slow. Right now, I'm typing at about the same pace I do while working on a book, and Blue Sky has no trouble keeping up with me, but I have to wait for it to catch up, particularly when I'm typing fast and then go to delete words.
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I've switched to Word Online recently and I'm not a fan.
#1 It's slow. Right now, I'm typing at about the same pace I do while working on a book, and Blue Sky has no trouble keeping up with me, but I have to wait for it to catch up, particularly when I'm typing fast and then go to delete words.
#1 It's slow. Right now, I'm typing at about the same pace I do while working on a book, and Blue Sky has no trouble keeping up with me, but I have to wait for it to catch up, particularly when I'm typing fast and then go to delete words.
Formatting in Word at first is a mind shattering torture that will leave you incapable of intelligent speech. But once you understand how to do it, after regaining your sanity and ceasing to curse Microsoft, you'll appreciate the control Word gives you over you're book's format.
#booksky #microsoft
#booksky #microsoft
October 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Formatting in Word at first is a mind shattering torture that will leave you incapable of intelligent speech. But once you understand how to do it, after regaining your sanity and ceasing to curse Microsoft, you'll appreciate the control Word gives you over you're book's format.
#booksky #microsoft
#booksky #microsoft
Check out my audiobook (FYI it's AI narrated) of my award-winning book The Terror and The Sword on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDAP...
#booksky #freeaudiobooks #audiobooks #fantasy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDAP...
#booksky #freeaudiobooks #audiobooks #fantasy
The Terror and The Sword Audiobook Pt1
YouTube video by Trevor Warren
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September 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Check out my audiobook (FYI it's AI narrated) of my award-winning book The Terror and The Sword on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDAP...
#booksky #freeaudiobooks #audiobooks #fantasy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDAP...
#booksky #freeaudiobooks #audiobooks #fantasy
My book The Terror and the Sword won two bronze medals from The Global Book Awards!
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#booksky
September 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
My book The Terror and the Sword won two bronze medals from The Global Book Awards!
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#booksky
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#booksky
I made a few dollars off of my book without running ads! It's a small win, but when you're a new author you got to take as many as those as you can get.
September 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I made a few dollars off of my book without running ads! It's a small win, but when you're a new author you got to take as many as those as you can get.
Challenging circumstances are opportunities. Be grateful for being pushed to achieve something you wouldn't have if things were easier.
September 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Challenging circumstances are opportunities. Be grateful for being pushed to achieve something you wouldn't have if things were easier.
An outline is like the pirate code in Pirates of the Caribbean, it's more of a guideline.
August 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
An outline is like the pirate code in Pirates of the Caribbean, it's more of a guideline.
Social media: We'll give you a couple hundred characters for you to write a post.
Me (an author): Can I negotiate for a couple hundred words, instead of characters?
SM: No.
Me: I would like to speak to the manager.
SM: I'm sorry, sir, you went over the character limit. Please write another post.
Me (an author): Can I negotiate for a couple hundred words, instead of characters?
SM: No.
Me: I would like to speak to the manager.
SM: I'm sorry, sir, you went over the character limit. Please write another post.
August 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Social media: We'll give you a couple hundred characters for you to write a post.
Me (an author): Can I negotiate for a couple hundred words, instead of characters?
SM: No.
Me: I would like to speak to the manager.
SM: I'm sorry, sir, you went over the character limit. Please write another post.
Me (an author): Can I negotiate for a couple hundred words, instead of characters?
SM: No.
Me: I would like to speak to the manager.
SM: I'm sorry, sir, you went over the character limit. Please write another post.
August 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Very funny!
In the bookshop this morning:
PARENTS: “Okay, we’re leaving now.”
CHILD: *pulls another book from the shelf and sits down *
CHILD: “Then I guess this is goodbye.”
PARENTS: “Okay, we’re leaving now.”
CHILD: *pulls another book from the shelf and sits down *
CHILD: “Then I guess this is goodbye.”
August 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Very funny!
If you want to help someone who's an author, particularly someone who wants to be a full time writer, it's simple: tell people about their book. The author will thank you with their undying love and gratitude. Maybe a cookie too.
#booksky
#booksky
August 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
If you want to help someone who's an author, particularly someone who wants to be a full time writer, it's simple: tell people about their book. The author will thank you with their undying love and gratitude. Maybe a cookie too.
#booksky
#booksky
Here comes the cavalry... I mean the tropes!
#writing #bluesky #substack
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#writing #bluesky #substack
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Trope Report: What I Used
Fantasy is a genre filled with tropes, and I wondered how many tropes I used in my fantasy book, The Terror and The Sword because when I was writing it, I wasn’t concerned about tropes.
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August 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Here comes the cavalry... I mean the tropes!
#writing #bluesky #substack
open.substack.com/pub/trevorwa...
#writing #bluesky #substack
open.substack.com/pub/trevorwa...
People say non-fiction is harder to write than fiction, but I disagree. In non-fiction you're dealing with facts, so you already have an idea of what you are going to say. With fiction you have to make up the facts and think about how you're characters will interact with them.
#booksky
#booksky
July 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
People say non-fiction is harder to write than fiction, but I disagree. In non-fiction you're dealing with facts, so you already have an idea of what you are going to say. With fiction you have to make up the facts and think about how you're characters will interact with them.
#booksky
#booksky