Recent content by Amontillado

Perhaps not my best choice of words. I was looking for something with a printing reference. Epilog can mean a final event, but any joke requiring explanation falls flat. I shall try to do better. It is the anniversary of Gutenberg's death, but only if you forget about calendar changes.

I was quite unhappy with the appearance of AI driven Flock cameras, monitoring every car entering or leaving our city. That degree of oversight bugs me, even if getting uninsured cars off the road is a good thing. Then I realized I just needed to get on board the fully monitored society...

A sad day in publishing history. It was on this day in 1468, a mere 558 years ago, that Johannes Gutenberg reached his epilog. He created the means to put Bibles in hotel rooms but his impact went far beyond that. Mad Magazine, for example, could not have been possible without the printing...

Six word writer's block, um...

I agree. My idea of an outline is a sparse trail of breadcrumbs through the story, which may be of more use to group notes by chapter than detailed story planning. Also, think about non-fiction. If I have a note about the properties of T6 aluminum, I want that note to be associated with every...

Never use what doesn't work, I'm on the same page with you there. Part of what some people see in outlining has to do with method. How the outline is created and the purpose it serves while writing. What free form (winging it) process works for you?

It's weather like this that invigorates the soul and catalyzes the mind. I feel so... alive! Although, I think that's because I don't think I could be this miserable if I were dead. Springtime comes. It has to.

This morning I saw two videos about writing essays (essaying?) as a means for learning. One video would have been chance. Two is a clear indication my intelligently artificial overlords are showing me a sign. Which got me to thinking about writing processes. You can't outline without ideas...

Outlines always killed my stories. Changing how I outline seems to have cured that. I (recently) like the idea of a living outline. Keep the outline open while you write.The outline reminds you of where you want the story to go and it will help keep things consistent. The outline doesn't have...

I wrote an essay last night while waiting at Walmart for wife's order to be delivered. I used my Logitech Pebble Keys BT keyboard and Pages on my iPhone in screen view mode, with large text. The iPhone sat on the dash at some distance. Large text made that somewhat OK. The keyboard worked fine...

Pages on the iPhone has a Screen View setting that I initially overlooked. It's like Word's web layout view. Once in Screen View you can set the font as large as you need to see it without affecting your document's layout for print. It's not like editing on a laptop, but it's workable.

Feel free to scoff at my silliness. I got my BYOK. Many would find the LCD display too limited and the LED lighting isn't smooth. I have some tolerance for such things. If my iPhone falls overboard, I'll forever have a sick feeling when I revisit that lake. The BYOK is less of a risk. That...

This resonates with me - , sentence transition, subordination, and modifiers. I think the larger point is to match sentence flow with ideas. For instance, building a case for something controversial might be done with long, sonorous sentences leading the reader to the brink without alarming the...

Nice signature line!

I learned a new word. Take that, evil Magibook!