The Scariest Story I Ever Read
I’ve been reading horror fiction since I was a wee lad. And from experience, I’d say most horror stories are merely horror-themed—but not actually scary. […]
My Freewrite Mode
I once read somewhere that P.G. Wodehouse wrote 2,000-3,000 words a day at his peak, but that number crept down to about 1,000 in his […]
Some Custom Emacs Functions That Are Changing My Game
I have some new, magic commands in Emacs that have become very dear to me in my daily workflow. As you all know, my focus […]
Second Brain, Second Nature
I finally got around to reading the big Zettelkasten book: How To Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning, and Thinking. The […]
Introducing a Word Diff Counter in Emacs
How do you measure productivity in writing? Or, how do you know when is a good time to stop working and take a break? If […]
Control-Excess: The Elegant Simplicity of Vanilla Emacs
There are a lot of great Emacs configurations out there. You’ve got Doom Emacs, Spacemacs, Aquamacs for Mac users, and so forth. But if you’re […]
Emacs Micro Lesson 11: Personal ispell dictionary
Some people have a philosophical aversion to spell-checkers. And I can understand that. (Though, I find grammar checkers more fussy, prescriptive, and generally annoying.) As […]
Relative Line Numbers in Emacs
Oh, line numbers. It’s one of the surprising joys of writing in a text editor. But many writers ignore line numbers. I understand. We think […]
Text Editor Judo: One Sentence Per Line
It makes writing and editing an absolute blast.
Emacs Is Like a Warm Blanket
A friend of mine said, “You’ve got to stop writing in UNIX, your stories are coming out choppy.” God bless him, he doesn’t know the […]