Read to the end for good news, such as;
- Brologue is now available on Bluesky…
- …Even though I don’t trust ’em.
Fool Me Twice, We Don’t — Err, What Was That First Thing You Said?
Tag: writing
Writing As If Already Free
Read to the end for fascinating insights on:
- Brologue, six months in;
- What it means to write as if already free.
The Art of the Job Application Rejection
- Stare at screen;
- Jobhunting kinda makes me not want to hunt jobs;
- Let me write please? As a treat?
Terry Pratchett’s ‘The Fifth Elephant’
On Productivity
- I tried to read Getting Things Done. It’s a slog, but it does have one thing worth remembering;
- Productivity is about being more deliberate about what you do, not about doing more;
- Whenever we see a piece of productivity advice, we should ask – “Productivity to what kinds of political ends?”
- I’m writing a story. Maybe I’ll publish it one day…
English Makes a Lot of Sense
- English is one of, if not the hardest foreign language to learn. There’s so many little things about it that are as though we’ve made them up as a sick joke.
- The solution? According to one guy, do what we’ve always done: crib some notes from other languages.
On the Journal as a Prosthesis
- My (re?)discovery of journalling – and how I reclaimed it from instrumentation.
- Good intentions – or, when other people think they know your condition better than you, but they mean well.
Fantasy for Mums
- For Mum, what makes a good fantasy’s a fickle thing.
- What is fantasy, anyway? Is sci-fi really just fantasy with its back turned?
- We could do with a ‘Fantasy for Mums’ survey. Nothing for ’em without ’em. Right?
Zettelkasten: An Antidote for Boring Notes
- Note-taking’s a miserable task – notebooks and siloed documents in word processors aren’t the only tools at your disposal.
- Enter Zettelkastens – a method of linking notes together, built bottom-up, by you (with some general rules).
Prologue
- Setting up my own blog locally on a Raspberry Pi was a proper treat. Moving that to the web was a bloody nightmare.
- Hello, World: Twenty years late to the blogging party