Music – Relaxing Rain When I want to relax, usually I listen to music. When I’m trying to sleep, my favourite thing to hear is rain – the harder, the better. I have a playlist with a few different types of rain and running water, which is quite useful. Over the last couple of days,…
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Mac Tips – Showing Hidden Folders Showing the hidden folders on a Windows machine is easy, go into folder options and enable it. On a Mac, you can’t click a magic button and it happens. Here’s how: 1. Open the terminal shell (Utilities > Terminal) 2. Enter the following command at the prompt:defaults write com.apple.Finder…
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Everyone do the Interrobang When writing text messages, I tend to use these a bit, but now I know what they are called. Interrobang (Interabang) A printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after…
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Excel Worksheet Tips: PDF Table to Excel – UPDATE On occasion I need to pull in a table of data from a PDF file into an excel spreadsheet to manipulate the data or to add to it. However, highlighting the table in the PDF, copying and then trying to import into excel doesn’t work. It…
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Waiting I can’t remember what was the trigger That forced my lungs to wheeze Pushed me into a bent over figure As I continued to cough, splutter and sneeze. When I straightened and looked down The tissue was speckled with blood My brow turned to a frown My eyes began to flood. Where had this…
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Using motivation to convert a sloth into a gazelle Before I started this blog, I thought to myself, what am I going to do with my spare time now that I’ve finished studying (…for now). I realised that there were things that I wanted to do, so I set myself some goals to complete. Once…
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WIP: Things to do Before Starting Your Novel I found a site that listed 25 steps to take before beginning your journey (warning: this link contains foul language). One of the recommended steps is “Test Drive Those Characters”. The step is outlined as: ” I will advocate this until the day I die. (Or the…
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WIP: Tenth Update I have just finished reading The Novel Writer’s Toolkit and Hooked. I have learnt quite a bit from both and have been able to draft out my opening sentence. Edison’s limbs were frozen as he looked through the floating holograms of dead agents to meet the eyes of the man who would…
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iTunes Basics: Introduction I recently started a post series, iTunes Basics. I aim to cover the basics of iTunes to help those that are new to iTunes and have found themselves overwhelmed or just confused as to what they can do with the program. The first thing to know about iTunes is that even though…
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iTunes Basics: Creating playlists and smart playlists I have been asked “how do you create smart playlists?” so I thought I would begin a new series of iTunes posts; iTunes Basics. I should probably start with an introduction to iTunes, but that will be next. Creating normal playlists A normal playlist allows you to add…
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