A decade (nearly) of Lamy
I’ve had this pen for about nine years now, which is longer than I’ve had my laptop, or my phone, or my current pair of jeans, or my bed, or the tv on the wall, or the lamp next to me, or … you get th…
Writing
37 posts
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…
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…