The George Costanza effect and the basket case theory
The actor Jason Alexander famously confronted the Seinfeld writer and co-creator Larry David on multiple occasions, taking issue with the bizarre and socially self-destructive behavior […]
Writing
Notes from an atrocity
The human organism is an atrocity exhibition at which he is an unwilling spectator. The setup. The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard is not a […]
About writerdecks and distraction-free writing environments
I’ve been seeing a lot of videos and articles recently about writerdecks. That’s right. These are distraction-free writing environments for writers. Basically, specialty computer rigs […]
Basic Saxon vs Latinate Construction for Beginners and Obsessives
I’ve mentioned this a lot to my writers group over the years, so I thought I’d finally write it down. English carries two parallel vocabularies: […]
Let the commits tell the story
Pull up git log –oneline on a project—or open the Magit log with l l from the status buffer and you might see two slightly […]
Writing gloriously long sentences in Emacs with line highlighting
Everyone knows I love finding whatever Emacs tricks and dodges I can to help writers. I wrote an article a while back about the benefits […]
Writing a novel in plain text has never been easier
I am happy to announce that my command line program for binding plain text writing files is live on my GitHub, with full documentation here, […]
The 10-Commit Rule: how git version control can improve writing quality
An often overlooked part of the productivity equation is knowing when to stop. Sometimes it feels good to keep adding and keep going, but you […]
Plugging Python into Git
I recently demoed a python script on my YouTube channel for analyzing git commits and extracting writing stats. This script is ideal for daily writing […]
Command line basics every writer should know
Writers, it’s time to stop worrying and learn to love the command line. Your terminal is your friend. There’s nothing to fear here. In this […]