Category: writing


The “scalable” notebook

Over at Twitter today, me, LaTtEX and rivengodwind chatted a bit about dead-tree notebooks.  At one point, LaTtEX mentioned that being scalable is the bane of spiral notebooks. By scalable I mean you can just keep on adding or removing paper to the notebook itself. While there are binders that allow you to do that, [...]


The Frustrated NaNoWriMo Writer

One of my best friends recently wrote about how to take the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) experience one step further by planning the plot out ten months in advance with November as the actual writing time. I admit I’m one of those who gets so excited the first few days and eventually wuss out [...]