Category: creative genius
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plotting code
Worth checking in on my progress, I think, as I continue to simultaneously pound away on a couple of writing projects AND build a piece of software to assist with that effort. Key to these efforts is that I’ve been writing a story. Not quite a novel. A story with some weight and length, but…
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podcast fiction
I’ve been writing. It’s a compulsion, but it is somehow, deep down, my life purpose. To write something. And ultimately I probably somewhere, somehow care if it is eventually published, but at the end of the day the exercise of putting words into the white spaces of paper, digital or dead-tree, is fulfillment of that…
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timeboxing
As I work to get my sabbatical in order, I’ve been contemplating various strategies. The first thing I had done was to make a long list of things I wanted to accomplish. At the risk of undermining that effort, I do think the list is almost impossibly long. It’s as much aspirational as achievable, but…
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write, code, right?
I’ve created my share of niche CMS software in the past. Content Management Systems are just tools that manage the input of things like text, links, images, and other files for an author (like me) to create content and then post it in a readable, consumable format for a user (like you) to enjoy. It…
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Details from Patience
It occurs to me that one of the biggest struggles I’ve been having with everything, from my art to my writing to my efforts to tackle various projects, is that I’m stuck in a rut of trying to see the big picture first. This is likely linked somehow to a dozen years of government work…