On Thursday (15th) I tweeted the question asking whether your...
Two years ago I gave away my MacBook Air to my wife and bought an Acer C720 with the intention of switching away from OS X to Linux....
Tl;Dr: it's about convenience and getting the job done!
It feels like my (creative) life's been on hold and oddly that's...
Is it me or has hell frozen over?
Technical websites across the Internet are buzzing with the news that Microsoft and...
In my last post I outlined my intention to create a...
Late last year, I wrote a post on...
I like writing fantasy and I like world building but I've been wondering lately if the effort of creating a new world is worth it,...
With NanoWriMo done and dusted for 2015, it's a good time to refine some of my writing processes....
I finished NanoWriMo yesterday with a wordcount a pip over 50,050 words. It feels good; quite a chunk of my planned re-write is now...
I've decided to do NanoWriMo again this year, it will be my fifth time since 2008. This year I'm...
I got an iPad mini not so long ago, mostly on the strength of the excellent Editorial app and to keep one foot in the door with...
I experiment with turning a markdown outline into OPML and using that to generate a novel project on my filesystem.
In my last post, I put the cart before the horse. I started drafting the post earlier in the week, before I made my purchase on eBay...
For some time I've suspected that that computer hardware reached the point where it good enough for most tasks nearly ten years ago....
For some time, I've been cogitating about redrafting my first novel,
For the last few days I've been thinking of jumping on the node.js bandwagon for my world building app. My reasoning is that I've...
I've decided to reboot my blog using another static-site generator. Watch this space as I slowly move my older content in coming days.
I explore ways to compile a bunch of markdown files into a book using Linux and MultiMarkdown
I got lazy with a couple of development projects and didn't add any form of protection to some web contact forms I'd created. As you...
There was a saying I once heard that went something like, "What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away". The meaning behind...
Haven't written that much and that quickly in a long time. This year's Nano has been a lot of fun!
It's two weeks in to NaNoWrimo 2014 and as I've written more than 40 thousand words I though it was time to procrastinate a little...
It's a week into NaNoWriMo and I've written just over 30 thousand words. That's insane; I don't think I've written at that sort of...
I've been following quite a bit of Apple news lately in light of the launch of Yosemite and new Macs, namely the Retina iMac and the...
I've decided to have another crack at Nanowrimo this year. I stated my intention to do so last year, but seeing as my youngest son...
A week ago I gave away my MacBook Air to my wife and replaced it with a Chromebook. The Air was getting long in the tooth; the...
In my last post, I wrote about my logic behind generating the populations...
In the last post, I began to outline how I planned to create realms and settlements. Realms and settlements are hierarchically linked...
In the last month or so, I've been building the groundwork of a world-building application. The aim is to...
I was tweaking the layout of my site this evening when I realised that I've been concentrating so much on development for the last...
Two weeks ago, I posted about my reasons for installing Ubuntu Linux on my...
Characters are fundamental to our stories and our world so naturally I want to manage them within the world-building application....
I've had to delay my post about creating characters until next week due to work commitments. In the meantime, I thought I'd briefly...
In the last couple of days I've been busy refining my create_story functions; specifically I've been adding more features, earmarking...
Earlier I posted about my ideas and requirements to create a story manager within my...
Ahead of my next post, where I plan on writing about my first two world-building tools, I thought it was appropriate to briefly write...
Earlier I posted about using files and folders to store my...
There's something something appealing about using your computer's file system to manage projects. In fact it has a lot going for it....
For a long time I've wanted to create an app that helps me manage world-building. I blogged about it in previous editions of my blog...
I got around to fixing the broken search engine today. Turned out to be simpler than I thought but since JavaScript isn't my forte it...
After several years of inactivity, I've decided to relaunch my site in anticipation of new books and projects.
I keep coming back to the idea of using a database to assist me in the planning and plotting of my novels.
In the previous...
Twas the night before nano and all through the house…
I’m undertaking Nanowrimo again this time with more annual leave up my...
After 30 gruelling days and despite starting a new job I have successfully completed Nanowrimo for November 2008.