WIP: Ninth Update Word count: Approximately 4,500 I have just completed the first chapter! At first I found it difficult to get moving, but I realised that once I started, it was easy to keep the momentum. As I had previously mapped out what I was trying to achieve, I knew how the story had…
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The Characters Are Already Talking A few writers that I have been following have mentioned that the characters speak to them during the writing process. I have only just started, but already one of my characters told me that his job didn’t make sense. Having thought about what kind of person I was trying to…
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WIP: Eight Update Another week, more writing! Not sprinting, as I had to work on fixing my Mac. After I organised all my stuff for my writing, I felt I had to fix up my music setup as well. Formatting, reinstalling programs and updating has taken all weekend, but I now have a Mac that…
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iTunes Help – A Quick Way to Speed Up Your iTunes When you start to build a nice collection of music in iTunes, you may notice that when you move songs, rearrange song information or create playlists, it can start running slowly. One of the main reasons for this could be because you have a…
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Voice Recognition is Awesome But… I’ve just installed Dragon Naturally Speaking and even though it does help to quickly convert speech to text, it does miss some quite common words. Will have to do some more training with it before it becomes quicker. Currently, my WIP is sitting at 1,000 words typed, many more waiting.…
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Organisation Is Crucial I’m now in third gear with my writing, however, the more I am writing, the more loose paper I seem to be collating. Random ideas, thoughts and scraps of scenes pop into my head that I need to get down. Doing this is necessary, but it makes them very easy to lose!…
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Mac Tips – Restoring Minimised Programs on a Mac When using programs on a Mac, pressing the minus (-) sign to minimise the program, minimises it to the tray. Unlike Windows, pressing Alt + Tab on a Mac will cycle through the open programs, but will not restore the window. To work around this, instead…
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Mac Tips – Renaming User Accounts About a year or more a go, I had an issue in my iTunes where all the latest played dates of the songs in my library were all the same. The only way to fix the issue was to shift all my information onto a new user account. However,…
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LOCK in to a new way of planning your story In a previous post, I outlined some key elements to a story. I have been reading some posts lately and I came across this: LOCK in an amazing plot for your novel: Lead, Objective, Confrontation, Knockout = Great Fiction There are a lot of architects…
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iTunes help – Playlists: The Best of the Best If you have quite a bit of music, and you have rated all your songs (yes, this seems daunting, but there is a quicker way!) you will find yourself with a group of songs that have four and five stars. Now, currently in that list, I…
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