If you’re anything like me, you’ve got a large number of RSS feeds. Viewing updates is hard enough on a desktop computer and sometimes impossible on a handheld device like the iPod Touch. A couple of days back, I came across a tip (via Daring Fireball) that can help with handling that volume of RSS.
I’ve come late to this series of articles on the blog of Pat Holt, a US-based editor and publishing-type person (her biography makes her somewhat difficult to define).
VeggieBox, the blog of writers Aliya Whiteley and Neil Ayres, now has an RSS feed that contains the text of posts. Huzzah! ► Feed me
I find the grind interesting. The grind of writing. Which tools do writers use? This is the opposite of the high flown, creative stuff. This is not inspiration. This is about the coal face. Steven Johnson, an American writer, uses DevonTHINK. Now each chapter starts life as a kind of archipelago of inspiring quotes, which [...]
As my family and childhood friends can attest, I once had an unspeakably detailed knowledge of the BBC television show Doctor Who. I knew all the episode names, transmission dates, major characters. Think this guy with a shorter nose. Even now, it’s not difficult to recall that the machine used in the War Games episode [...]
I’ve been hibernating over the winter. To be specific, I’ve been marking assignments. There was no time for updating this blog. But when I say ‘no time for updating’, I mean I had no time to write longish articles. There was certainly time to write shorter ones. This morning, I had an idea. Maybe two.
What do novels about a journey across post-apocalyptic America, a clone waitress rebelling against a future society, a world-girdling pipe of special gas keeping mutant creatures at bay, a plan to rid a colonisable new world of dinosaurs, and genetic engineering in a collapsed civilisation have in common? They are all most definitely not science [...]