Ok, so I know it isn’t November anymore, and I should shut up about writing already, but it’s a good change of pace, and I have one little point to make/explore that makes sense to talk about post-nano. It’s about the habit of writing. And I think it can be applied to all sorts of creative work.

A lot of people think that NaNo is all about “a big ( Read more... )

So, after all my talk the other week about netbooks and such things, I broke down and got a new computer. Which wasn’t exactly needful, but it’s quite nice, and I think it’ll feature rather heavily in m posts this week. Sorry if this is too far afield for some. I hope suspect that it’ll make sense in the end.

Rather than wait until one of the ( Read more... )

I’ve had one hell of a week, and at least somewhat understandably, I haven’t been writing very much this past week. Which is really odd for me because I’m always writing. While the cause of this vacation from writing was acute and understandable, this has led me to think about the role of my writing in my day to day life, and while it’s depressing ( Read more... )

Over the past week or two, I’ve been working on a number of side projects that I’ve started to realize as a new and interesting project in and of themselves.

The first project is that I’ve been working on (re)designing a website with/for my friend Scott, who is a composer/voice actor/podcaster type. While he has a lot of HTML skills he’s never ( Read more... )

Ed: I so I totally meant to post this on Monday instead of this post, but the wires got crossed, and Monday’s post got out early. Sorry. -ty

The one thing that really undermines my argument against preemptive rewriting is the fact that I’m a compulsive outliner, at least for some things.

Since I’m currently in the “planning a new story/project” ( Read more... )

In debates between writers who outline voraciously and writers who “just write” and think that outlining kills the energy of a project, I usually come down on the side of the outliners. If I make an outline, even if I don’t hold myself to it closely, I tend to be more focused and run into fewer snags than if I fly by the seat of my pants. Except…

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Though I’ve never asked directly about this, I have sort of hinted around the edges and thought about it a bit, so I figure, it’s worth bringing up. Here’s the question:

You install a new wiki somewhere, and you have a blank “welcome to your wiki page.” How do you go about editing these pages and developing a wiki from there?

The idea behind a ( Read more... )

Email is a beast. While I would say that I don’t-at the moment-get a huge amount of email, I get enough that if I didn’t have a system in place for dealing with the email, it would be completely useless. I’ve not written about it here, but I have spent some time over the past few weeks working out how to replace a good but faltering system with a ( Read more... )

So I have a confession to make. I’m not writing longhand very much at all. Actually its insignificant the amount that I’m writing things out longhand any more. I was struck by this fact the other day, when, after a day where I felt like I didn’t get anything done, I opened a notebook and did some project planning/review on a sheet of paper. And I ( Read more... )

Backstory: For the past year I’ve been using source control management software to manage and version all of my text files (which is where I do all of my writing, and most of my “real work.”) I started out using subversion, which is a good piece of software under some circumstances. This post is about my transition to a different system, that ( Read more... )