Wes Ellis./ a personal notebook
Technology. Stories. Side projects.
A few things worth writing down.

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Tools for the writing desk.

Small scripts for the novel side of life: word counts by chapter and clean Kindle-ready files from Markdown.

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    Turn a Folder of Markdown Chapters into One Kindle-Ready HTML File

    A small Python script that stitches Markdown chapters into a single clean HTML book with a title page, linked contents, chapter breaks, curly quotes and proper scene breaks.

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    Count Manuscript Words by Chapter, Word Files Included

    Get a word count for every chapter file and the whole manuscript, from Markdown, plain text or .docx, with a running total and a progress bar toward your target.

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    Join Chapter Files into One Manuscript with PowerShell

    Stitch a folder of Markdown or text chapter files into one full manuscript, in the right order, with a title block and a word count that's never out of date.