I’ve been changing my writing workflow this week. What follows is how I draft, edit and build my Indie novel ebooks. I’m admittedly an extreme corner case here, but I think no matter which OS you use, these tools are… Read More »My New Writing Workflow
I’ve recently converted my coding text editor to Sublime Text. This post is a reference for if I have to set it up again. The editor can be used on any OS and looks particularly nice on all of them.… Read More »Sublime Text – Setup
I’ve been doing two writing related things this week since returning from my summer vacation. Finishing my first draft of Starveyors and helping to redefine how I will write my next novel. Sometimes you write and sometimes you help others write.… Read More »Sometimes You Write, Sometimes You Give Back
mlabowicz via Compfight When I got my new Dell laptop and put Ubuntu on it, I was doing more than just setting up a new laptop. I was defecting from the most popular creative arts platform for one that is… Read More »Leaving Apple for Linux
The new Big Three of digital publishing. Ugh! Can I have a new future please? No? Drat. Okay, then put me in two of the three major markets. Apple still makes me pay to play with purchasing an ISBN. Who… Read More »Amazon, Apple and Microsoft
Installing Mac OSX after hosing your Macbook hard drive This is a cheat sheet that I have created in case I have this headache again. There were parts that I screwed up and there were parts that I simply was… Read More »Duel Booting Ubuntu and Mac OS
If you drop by my web site, www.w0pht.org and click on the Amateur Radio page, you will find an option to install a Search plugin into your Firefox browser Search Engine box. The handy little plugin lets you search the… Read More »Firefox Callsign Lookup Search Engine
I adjusted the RAM used by the Windows XP VM (from 512 to 312) and now Parallels seems to work nicer, especially in the Coherence mode. Now I can have access to my OS X side while running Visual Studio… Read More »Coherence Mode
I spent the entire afternoon installing Windows XP Pro in Parallels as a Virtual Machine. Installing Windows on any PC takes a good bit of time, but as a VM, it seemed a little quicker, by a few minutes. As… Read More »Virtual Windows
Most if not all of my creative writing now gets done on my MacBook. I have a wonderful writing program called CopyWrite that I live in when I’m actually banging out prose. It’s wonderful for keeping track of my notes… Read More »Word Processor For Mac