Last Tomorrow Edits are Final.
This lovely strange trip of a book is done and I’m ready to push the baby bird out the nest. This is a story I’ve been imagining and tweaking with for some time. It’s time for it to meet the world. Watch this space.
Quote of the Day
“I turn the wheel that spins. I delight to see the high come down and the low ascend. Mount up, if thou wilt, but only on condition that thou wilt not think it a hardship to come down when the rules of my game require it.” -Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
Five Things I Learned in the Age of the Typewriter
This is essentially my philosophy. And I too got started on a typewriter…
Fun Facts about the Tolkein Family
You can knock Wikipedia all you like, but I discovered some truly interesting information about the descendants of J.R.R. Tolkein, just by doing a bit of research on the Mabinogion. To wit: Christopher Tolkein deserves all the credit in the world for the existence of The Silmarillion. It was he who edited his father’s chaotic… Read More Fun Facts about the Tolkein Family
If You Want to Write a Story, Write a Story…
Good post at The Green Study: My writing tip #234: Don’t read books on writing while trying to write a novel. First of all, it usually sheds bad light on whatever you are writing and secondly, it can make you overly ambitious. I agree. What you need when you’re working on something is Inspiration. It… Read More If You Want to Write a Story, Write a Story…
Tumblr Jazz
I may not have mentioned this before, but I have a blog on Tumblr that is devoted to a somewhat geeky and idiosyncratic project: reviewing every music CD I own. It’s called Every. Damn. CD. and it’s got quite a history. I’ve been working on it for a long time, because I have long spells… Read More Tumblr Jazz
Quote of the Day
Justice is not done to the versatility and the unplumbed childishness of man’s imagination. -Robert Louis Stevenson
The Downside of Pantsing
As I’ve announced before, a good bit of Last Tomorrow was written on the fly. Like the US Navy in WWII, I simply went around difficulties. That’s fun, but at some point, you have to force those little hidden Japanese jungle plot holes (I’m getting all the elasticity this metaphor has, thank you very much) to… Read More The Downside of Pantsing
Quote of the Day
The human character has been ill-served by nature: we tend to consider matters carefully after the fact, not before. -Quintus Curtius Rufus
How to Publish Stuff on iBooks, using Tablo…
I laid out the steps some weeks ago on my Ello page. If you like having your stuff iBooks, Tablo takes much of the work out for you. Here’s the basics: Step 1 – Put Your Book on Tablo. You can write (or copy-paste) your work there with their Bookmaker software, which is intuitive and… Read More How to Publish Stuff on iBooks, using Tablo…
