It is unsustainable, the forever writing. Fanny in chair, write till you drop – advice we were all given in our first year of literary apprenticeship. You must maintain your body or there will be no art. I’ve learned that the hard way. The fingers are tingling, the back stings hot under my scapula, there’s [...]
Author Archives: Doug
Tagging in FSIM
Theres’ a nice chat going on the Scrivener boards about File System Information Managers. I wrote a long reply to a post and thought I’d share parts here. Metadata and tagging A lot of my work flow is text based (it was once rtfd, then rtf, and if you go way back, doc and whatever [...]
Getting Ready for PlainText
I’ve moved almost all my notes out of my SimpleText folder. A few seasons ago I put them all in there when Hog Bay launched its free syncing service to support WriteRoom and TaskPaper for the iPhone and iPad. I did it because I thought I’d be notating and editing all sorts of items in the newly freed, on the go, mobile existence of the “i” revolution — no need for a heavy laptop for me. I was wrong.
Posted in Best Of, Productivity Tagged DropBox, Hog Bay, Infobase, Notational Velocity, PlainText, SimpleNote, TaskPaper, WriteRoom 1 Comment
New York State Writers Institute – The Summer Workshops
I’m baaack. It was fabulous. I was in Rick Moody’s masters section — life changing. I’ll write more as I process it all.
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TaskPaper, Scrivener, and Note Taking on the iPad
The Center Cannot Hold – Flarf in the WSJ
Sharon Mesmer, Flarf, The Wall Street Journal, Page One.
There really isn’t any more that I can say….Poetry makes the big time.
Click through for the evidence.
