Unlock with PatreonWeek 2 Update: Write Like It is 2020
Week 1 Update: Welcome to the New Year
Week 52 Update: Starting a New Streak
2020 Foresight, New Year Plans
I started out 2019 with a plan. Priorities. Ambitious plans to write, publish, learn, and market more stories and novels. The key principle of the plan? Consistency. Turns out that I struggled with being consistent.
#MakeoverMonday Week 49
This week #MakeoverMonday looks at an article in the Guardian “How much does union membership benefit America's workers?” by Mona Chalabi. The answer? Quite a bit. Union membership or representation increases the average pay of workers. Pay inequality is still an issue, however, based on sex and race. Chalabi created illustrated graphs that show these relationships.
When do kids get smartphones?
#MakeoverMonday Week 47 Visualization
Each week Eva Murray (@TriMyData) and Andy Kriebel (@VizWizBI) share an article and dataset and ask the community to tackle creating a new visualization from the data. It's a chance to learn and explore. The vizzes created get shared via Twitter and reviewed (if submitted) in a weekly webinar.
Novelizing My Writing Process
I love trying out different tools for writing. Over the years I’ve written on all sorts of devices from pens to word processors, Palm OS PDAs, Alphasmarts, laptops, Chromebooks, phones, and PCs. I’ve used digital recorders to record dictation. My current obsession is my Freewrite (and waiting for the Traveler to come out).
All of these devices have used different software (well, not the pens, although I’m curious about using shorthand and software to convert it to text). I love trying out new programs and have used a variety of programs on all of the platforms. Today I still use Word for some tasks. I’ve used Scrivener. I posted previously about trying out Novlr online.
I was recently contacted by the kind folks at Novelize who offered me a chance to try out their online novel writing program. It’s been available since 2014 but I’d somehow missed it. Of course I jumped at the chance to try it out. I’m going to share my first impressions in this post. Later, after I spend more time with Novelize and get to know it better, I’ll share my experience.
Does what you eat predict what you read?
‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
The Marsten House hung over the town of Jersualem’s Lot, ‘Salem’s Lot, like a tombstone over a grave that hadn’t been filled in yet. The people in their homes and shops didn’t recognize the rich smell of fresh turned earth, the odor of their own deaths. They hadn’t caught up to the fact that they were already dead, their last days on earth evaporating like morning dew.
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