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
Thought I’d offer my audience a look at the latest Plume Beta, since it’s really not for public consumption yet. This being Beta software, things are not final and are subject to change. With that disclaimer out of the way,… Read More »Plume Beta Sneak Peek
Version 0.61 Beta of Plume Creator has hit the download servers at Sourceforge. Get it while it’s hot! Lots of attention has been placed on the look and feel of this release. If you are a writer who likes… Read More »New Version of Plume Creator Released
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 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… Read More »Geany IDE and Python Programming
So this is what Plume Creator looks like on Windows 7. You can pull the latest release from Source Forge, here. There are debs and source and .exe versions available. Please remember that this is still a Beta program and… Read More »Plume Creator 0.54 Released
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
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
We decided to get the family a laptop computer to share. Currently we are using my old MacBook and that makes it hard for me to go off and write on it. The wife wanted a Windows computer so the… Read More »New Family Laptop
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