If you like to write in Editor-only full screen view in Ulysses you can have a very minimalist distraction-free writing environment. The trouble is you can have your flow regularly disrupted by having to reach
Continue ReadingThe Dog’s Home
If you have read “The Picts and the Martyrs” by Arthur Ransome you will know what the Dog’s Home is. A little stone hut in the middle of a forest where Dick and Dorothea found
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The Planet Baggers
My new novel, The Planet Baggers, is now available for Kindle. If you are a fan of Douglas Adams or liked Red Dwarf then it could be right up your street! WARNING: contains lots of
Continue ReadingUlysses: The way to write a novel
If you want to be good at anything in life it pays to use the best tools and equipment you can get. The words “budget” and “value” should not be on your radar when it
Continue ReadingRevenge is a dish best thrown in the bin
Revenge is not ice cream. It is not best served cold, neither is it sweet. Ever. Revenge is stupid. It is an entirely negative emotion that leeches your positive energy and gnaws at your happiness.
Continue ReadingFocus on pros, not cons
If you were to suggest to me that I become a vegetarian my initial response would be “hell no, I can’t exist on leaves and I hate root vegetables.” That’s because most of us, by
Continue ReadingCould a computer write a song?
No. Next question. Oh, all right then, let’s think about it a bit more. After all, AI is advancing all the time. Surely if a computer can drive a car then it can write a
Continue ReadingUniqueness
You often hear that no two snowflakes are the same. I’ve even heard it claimed that no two snowflakes have ever been the same. The problem I have with statements like that is simply that
Continue ReadingIn praise of skeuomorphism
It’s a weird word isn’t it? But a good one. It refers to the practice of making something new look like something old. As a kid I remember seeing Morris Minors with wooden frames on
Continue ReadingBeware of little fluffy clouds
A cautionary tale A little while ago I talked about a lovely piece of software called Write! It was available for PC and Mac, and had some wonderful features for writers such as customisable word
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