Thoughts on blogging (changes)
Status Looking at my “online activity” for the past 5 years, I’ve been writing at: 1. Twitter 2. Wordpress 3. A Static Blog Observations * Of these, (3) is basically dead, and is around merel…
Writing
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Why u no have footnotes, Medium?
Yuck, footnotes simply don’t render in Medium the way they do in Wordpress. I have no clue why this is so — it seems a terrible limitation in my opinion. There are notes, which are a poor substitute…
Thoughts on Wordpress and Medium
I had tried out Medium earlier, perhaps three years ago. At the time, I found it redundant for what I had started doing, which is sharing the curated monthly links. Wordpress was a better fit for that…
Notebook rollover time
My Cafe Note B6 Slim from Nanami Paper filled up (second in a row!), and I recently switched to a different, larger notebook — the Seven Seas “MicroDot” A5 — from the same company (and so, the same p…
On writing instruments
After some trials over the past five years or so, I’ve found that I like to (physically, with pen and paper) write, I like to write a lot, and I like to write in a certain way. In terms of paper, I s…
Continuing thoughts about the “static blog”
After some deliberation, I feel there’s no point in either (1) keeping a separate static-only blog and this blog, or (2) keeping two separate Wordpress blogs, because * I don’t have the mind space f…
Angst about the static blog (again!)
This is beyond frustrating … after I moved everything this year to a different layout and thought I was “finally done”, I’m now wondering whether the static site is a good idea at all. The big bottle…
On writing with pen and paper
Very quickly: I love Baron Fig notebooks, both the larger, hard-cover Confidant, and the smaller, soft-cover Vanguard. After a few years of trying different styles, I realized I vastly preferred whit…
On World Building
Something I came across (and which would be lost, but for the Wayback Machine): Worldbuilding is dull. Worldbuilding literalises the urge to invent. Worldbuilding gives an unneccessary permission for…
The Parabolic Fabulist
About ten years ago I had this idea of a half-poetry, half-prose piece of surreal fiction, that stayed locked in my head and grew rusty over time. A few months ago (starting with NaNoWriMo 2015, but…
NaNoWriMo 2015
I've been fooling around with the idea of NaNoWriMo (or NAtional NOvel WRiting MOnth) for a while now, but this year I'd like to commit to it publicly. I don't think I'll actually end…
Programming is like writing
From a comment on Slashdot: My current theory is that programming is quite literally writing. The vast majority of programming is not conceptually difficult (contrary to what a lot of people would ha…