Year: 2012

Beta Reader Findings

Erre via Compfight The best way to find the big picture flaws of your novel is to let people read it. Not everyone, but a small, subset of everyone. Try and find folks who are not familiar with your work…

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Taking Stock

las – initially via Compfight Today I didn’t write during my lunch hour. Instead, I read everything that I have written so far on my WIP. Sometimes its good to do that and see if you are achieving the tone…

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Writing Tools on Ubuntu

When you come to Ubuntu from the Mac or Windows worlds, you start looking around for programs that you used on your old system. Sometimes you easily find versions of your favorite tools and sometimes it can be a challenge…

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Twitter Posts from 2012-09-22 to 2012-09-28

GITS Script Reading & Analysis: “Raiders of the Lost Ark” — Character | Go Into The Story http://t.co/Pc7nwJjU 2012-09-27 New post: Geany IDE and Python Programming http://t.co/8bgWvII7 2012-09-28 It's a Meatloaf Friday with a $5.00 Bat Out of Hell purchase…

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A Sci-Fi Writer’s Operating System

Is this not the coolest operating system ever? (click to embiggen)

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Geany IDE and Python Programming

I’ve been helping my youngest son, Spencer, learn to program in Python by designing an RPG game. We’re following this guy on YouTube and will then branch off and add to his framework. Spen’s using my old netbook running the…

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Jelly Bean

Four months after Google released Jelly Bean, Verizon sees fit to let me have it on my Galaxy NEXUS phone. Really? The Nexus phone was supposed to get upgrades BEFORE other phones. It was supposed to be the premiere Google…

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Twitter Posts from 2012-09-15 to 2012-09-21

@MaryRobinette Starting to sound like an April 1st tweet stream. ;-) in reply to MaryRobinette 2012-09-20 Katee Sackoff talks about Starbucks Viper – "Gertrude" YouTube http://t.co/63aJKWM1 2012-09-20 Few do that as well as you! > @garethlpowell: If you want people…

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