I don't write for a living. Clearly, right? Anyway, I write for pleasure. As in, there are no negative consequences if I don't write something, other than the fact that something I thought might be a good idea at one time won't be a thing I can go back and read later.
The guts of the deck. It has everything I need to run a GUI-less Linux instance. I used the Raspberry Pi Imager which allowed me to set up Wi-Fi as part of the installation process
The minimal need for any kind of layout, accompanied by the rendering library that this site uses made markdown a natural choice to write blog posts. It's all plain text and the symbols used for the small amount of markup I need are minimally intrusive. Using markdown for blog posts led me to start using it for all of my writing. One of the main benefits of this is the plain text because,…
I don't agree with this premise. I was distracted from things I wanted to accomplish long before the internet was a thing. I'll acknowledge that distractions are a lot easier to find on a multi-purpose, multitasking machine, and so there is value, to me, in a single-purpose writing machine. But I don't see a way to a life free from interjections just because I spent a lot of money on a writer…
hand.
This year, I've had some characters rattling around in my brain and they are what I'm going to focus on for the story this year. I want to shove them together in a situation where they can't just walk away and see what happens.
Another area I'm interested in is fountain pens. I don't build them, but I like writing on paper. It's a slower process, and does require typing what I've written out if I want to be able to edit, or put it online, but it's worth it to me to have a physical copy that I wrote.
I'm lying in the bath. It's been a long day and I need this.