Posts Tagged ‘blocks’

I Wrote On A Work Night

I know, that seems incredibly mundane, writing on a work night. It was a little more than 850 words, which is a nice surprise, considering I don’t write on work days anymore. 
You see, before I went to day shift, I had my mornings to myself.  I would fritter away great chunks of it, but still [...]

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Weird Coincidences

Having finally finished reading Joe Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself (good, though the edge was dull for me as I knew it was the first of three books), I’ve started two more: The White Pipes by Nancy Kress (a used bookstore find) and The Best of the Best, a 20-year retrospective of the best science fiction [...]

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A Metronome of Procrastination

Yeah. Back on FireFox (mostly out of lust for Chrome, which is not yet available for the Mac) and this ScribeFire add-on. I always did like this program, and missed it when I went back to Safari (still elegent).
Why the switch back? I managed to hunt down all those other applications that [...]

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Can’t Catch The Rhythm

On another reading glut again, as my transition to day shift has left me disconnected from writing both at home and at work. At home, my evenings are spent with Todd, so writing is off the table while reading works, especially if he’s watching TV or playing a video game. At work, the [...]

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Mind Mapping

Which, can also be another form of writing-avoidance; it’s a syndrome, my new four-letter word.
However, it has been both fun and illuminating. There’s nothing more fun than sitting down with some blank paper, a host of colored markers and pencil crayons, and just playing with your brain. I started out putting WRITING in [...]

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Offline or Online?

This is a bit of an experiment. I’ve downloaded the Windows Live Writer program based on a positive review over on LifeHacker. I had downloaded the program once before – and I know this because the settings are still in place for my old ’scribofelidae’ blog over at Live Journal [...]

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