If there’s one thing I hate about blogging, then there’s probably a bunch of other things too. My main bugbear is the continual need for new content. Blogs are hungry beasts. Much of what gets written is ephemeral and has a short shelf, no matter how much time you spent on it. With that in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘oblique strategies’
Evil Pixies and How to Beat Them
Posted: June 8, 2010 in graffiti livingTags: evil pixies, life, nablopomo, oblique strategies, writing
A novelist I knew once told me that in order to write she has to outsmart her Evil Pixie. I suspect that she’s a genius, and I’ve been telling this story ever since.
Nanowrimo Boot Camp – a quick and dirty guide to surviving national novel writing month for lazy writers.
Posted: November 3, 2009 in graffiti livingTags: alphasmart, alphasync, dropbox, inner editor, japan, last.fm, magick, nanowrimo, notebook, oblique strategies, red pen, tea, wordcount, writing
It’s nanowrimo again – the time of the year when all common sense goes out of the window and you try to write a novel in a month. Just for kicks. Nanowrimo is great fun and I’ve completed it successfully several times now. There’s a method that I tend to use that I’ve refined over [...]
