Recent content by Amontillado

My avatar is a composite of four images. The Cassini spacecraft and Saturn's rings are from NASA's gallery, the eye is mine, and if you look really closely you'll see a Python listing on my iris. Please look closely. There's a bug in that code. Let me know if you find it. Fascination with Poe...

Atticus is intended to be a word processor/content creator as well as a formatter, isn't it? I've only goofed around with epub output at this time. The free version of Vellum, if that's still a thing, was very nice but seemed most at home with formatting, not creating. Apple Pages, which has a...

I completely agree with that philosophy. I'll retract the suggestion in your features request thread. Hopefully, it's obvious that wasn't what I was looking for. All I would offer is a hand at a bilge pump if the ship starts sinking. Anonymously would be my preference. Better that you've...

If it's not driving you crazy, please delete Amontillado on the old site. I've logged out. Now to search the new site for a "donate" button...

Hotel desks irritate me beyond rational justification. They are too tall for typing and I believe hotels buy pre-failed hydraulic struts for their chairs. You sit, you sink, the table that was too high to begin with is now an unscalable mesa. Not optimal.

I agree about the downside. Outlining often kills a story for me. On the other hand, I can't write unless I have something to say. I can't just riff. The trick is to outline without much detail, then keep the outline open while I write. At that point, it's kind of a cross between an outline and...

There is a writer-tube channel I've found helpful called VelocityWriting. One of the latest offerings is a discussion of Lester Dent's blueprint for writing. I'm not keen on filling out templates for characters or story beats. I concede I might benefit from the practice. But I don't work that...

Montressor? Is that you? My cough is killing me. It's the nitre, Montressor, for the love of God, the nitre!

Hey, Madman, I like science fiction, particularly in the styles of Asimov, Heinlein, and Bradbury. Historical fiction can be fun, too. I like to write about individuals coping with distressing circumstances. Right now, I'm starting on a story about a time when a crumbling economy is propped by...

I'm here on day one. I'm going to participate if you can stand me. Which means I'm destined to become one of the Old Ones, yet I feel woefully unprepared. I have a front porch to sit on, a yard to defend, a neighborhood full of rowdy kids, but I don't have a cane! Where's my cane? And what are...