It seems a lot of writers have trouble coming up with names for their characters. Thankfully, I’ve never had any trouble doing that—it’s the story itself that gives me sleepless nights. Telling you that names
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Using Synonyms And Rhymes In Lyrics and Poems
Many people find writing poems and lyrics difficult. So here’s my tip—keyword brainstorming.Say you wanted to write a song about being dumped via a text message. Identify the keywords—in this case “text” and “dumped”. Then
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My search for the holy grail of text editors, the one app to rule them all, seems to be never-ending. The trouble is that I may be expecting too much from one piece of software—I
See full articleIncrease your productivity with keyboard shortcuts in Ulysses
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
See full articleThe 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
See full articleUlysses: 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
See full articleCould 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
See full articleBlogging with Ulysses
A while ago I discussed alternate ways of writing blog posts without having to use the awful WordPress web interface (and the even worse replacement, Gutenberg). I mentioned a word processor called Write! which is
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Now that I use tools like Scrivener and Grammarly for my writing it got me thinking about A.I. In particular, could a computer ever write fiction? After all, we are beginning to see computer-generated art
See full articleOn Writing Haiku
In my younger days I wasn’t a great fan of poetry. I found it hard going, requiring more effort to understand than I was prepared to expend on it. Then I stumbled upon Haiku. I
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