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File System Infobase Manager
I've posted a complete outline of my FIle System Based Info Manager on my web site. It's the tool I use to manage all my writing, notes, reference material, bibliographies, and records. It's based on Alex Payne's architecture ideas, Noguchi Yukio's o...
Writing Timers, Wasting Timers
A great way to waste time not writing is to set up your system for managing writing time during the time when you should be writing. I used to write non-stop, heads-down till my body collapsed, lost in the tunnel of creativity, absorbed with characte...
What comes next?
In response to a question on another site… “Once you have written down the inspiration that comes to you, then what?” …I replied… Outline, reorder, revise, wrestle with syntax, realize that there is no message or point, ...
Notebooks
Just like Joan Didion, my notebooks start with an entry prompted by real life. I jot down a few observations, a description of something that passed by, a taste, a smell, a pretty girl. Often it’s a note about an event, because I tend to be a descr...
