Morning Pages
march 2011 by mottram
Three pages, longhand, every day.
creativity
productivity
writing
march 2011 by mottram
Meg Pickard: In praise of the long form
december 2010 by mottram
list of long-form journalism aggregators
writing
reading
december 2010 by mottram
WriteRoom.ws — Distraction free writing sync
august 2009 by mottram
A web version of WriteRoom, which syncs with the iPhone version (which I didn't know about either).
writing
web
cloud
writeroom
august 2009 by mottram
The Agrippa Files
december 2008 by mottram
"Agrippa (a book of the dead) appeared in 1992 as a collaboration between artist Dennis Ashbaugh, author William Gibson, and publisher Kevin Begos, Jr." It included pages that faded over time, and a Gibson poem that "ran from a diskette once before encrypting itself into oblivion".
books
technology
writing
poetry
december 2008 by mottram
Daily Routines
december 2008 by mottram
"How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days"
work
writing
december 2008 by mottram
PyRoom — distraction free writing
november 2008 by mottram
WriteRoom clone.
writing
writeroom
text
work
editors
november 2008 by mottram
Last word - Times Online
may 2008 by mottram
Ever since Twitter launched, I've been waiting for the chance to legitimately tweet "PECCAVI".
twitter
telegrams
writing
economy
restrictions
may 2008 by mottram
Bean: An OS X Word Processor
may 2008 by mottram
Has live word count. Doesn't do anything fancy. Can't wait to try it out.
via:gilest
osx
text
writing
work
may 2008 by mottram
Literature and Latte - Scrivener
may 2008 by mottram
Fancy word processor thing. I have no need for 99% of its features, but I'm still tempted, because you can set a target word count.
writing
work
osx
applications
text
may 2008 by mottram
Official Google Docs Blog: Bringing the cloud with you
april 2008 by mottram
Seems a bit flakey, but well handy on the Eee when they get it running smoothly.
eeepc
google
writing
work
april 2008 by mottram
twitterfic - Twitter Fiction
april 2008 by mottram
140 character microfictions.
twitter
fiction
writing
april 2008 by mottram
Print writing versus web writing « gilest
april 2008 by mottram
I'd add "You probably get paid | You probably don't' ;-)
web
writing
journalism
advertising
april 2008 by mottram
BBC - Radio 4 - Arts and Drama - Rise of the Footnote
april 2008 by mottram
Nice little doc on the footnote.
footnotes
writing
reading
books
april 2008 by mottram
A Writer by Any Other Name by Giles Turnbull - The Morning News
february 2008 by mottram
Giles Turnbull on the horror of writing a short biography for your byline. (I'm always, boringly, '... a writer who lives in Glasgow').
journalism
writing
bio
turnbull
february 2008 by mottram
Edinburgh International Book Festival, meet the author events, book debates, book discussions, book workshops, book signings, alan bennett, norman mailer, alice munro, margaret atwood, ian mcewan, andrew marr, fay weldon, michael frayn, clive james, ben o
august 2007 by mottram
Soothing my hangover from the Book Fest launch (including sponsor list opera!) by combing the schedules.
festivals
edinburgh
books
writing
august 2007 by mottram
Oliver Strunk: The Elements of Style - Index
april 2007 by mottram
Oliver Strunk: The Elements of Style - Index
writing
work
style
april 2007 by mottram
George Orwell: Why I Write
april 2007 by mottram
George Orwell: Why I Write
orwell
writing
autobiography
april 2007 by mottram
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Honey, I shrunk the culture
january 2007 by mottram
On the web's inherent bias towards short form texts. Like this one.
brevity
shortform
longform
writing
january 2007 by mottram
Copy What You Like
july 2006 by mottram
"Whenever I see a painting impressively hung in a museum, I ask myself: how much would I pay for this if I found it at a garage sale, dirty and frameless, and with no idea who painted it? "
copying
writing
july 2006 by mottram
Andy Warhol
june 2006 by mottram
"Andy Warhol films, art and superstars."
warhol
writing
art
film
painting
superstars
june 2006 by mottram
MetaFilter Writers Group
june 2006 by mottram
A group for writers who are also members of MetaFilter. Funnily enough.
metafilter
mefi
writing
group
fiction
shortstories
june 2006 by mottram
will-self.com: Will's Room
may 2006 by mottram
A 360 degree view of Will Self's writing room, a glorious mess of post-it notes, annotated maps and unsteady piles of papers. (Shame it's not a Quicktime VR panorama thingy, though.)
willself
working
writing
postit
notes
maps
annotation
organisation
may 2006 by mottram
NOW. Transcript. October 1, 2005 | PBS
january 2006 by mottram
Vonnegut on fine form.
authors
interviews
vonnegut
writing
january 2006 by mottram
Welcome to constrained.org : constrained.org
november 2005 by mottram
"Constrained.org is a community site for short stories that adhere to various literary constraints, ranging from the well-known (anagrams, acrostics, palindromes) to the obscure and arbitrary."
writing
literature
fiction
constraints
november 2005 by mottram
handwriting tips
october 2005 by mottram
Tips for improving your handwriting
writing
howto
handwriting
lifehacks
october 2005 by mottram
The Globe and Mail: The world according to Kurt
october 2005 by mottram
"I had reasonably hoped to be dead by now. It's embarrassing to keep on going"
interview
vonnegut
writing
interviews
october 2005 by mottram
the Scarlet Letters: Notes on Making Art
september 2005 by mottram
...and anything else, really.
creativity
art
productivity
writing
efficiency
september 2005 by mottram
On the Joys of Primitive Computing: The AlphaSmart Neo
september 2005 by mottram
A very basic wordprocessor, with amazing battery life. I could defo imagine using one, but not for $250.
hardware
gtd
design
writing
lofi
*
september 2005 by mottram
Justin Blanton | Footnotes and Textpander
september 2005 by mottram
Yet another neat use of the fabulous Textpander.
footnotes
textpander
efficiency
writing
text
*
september 2005 by mottram
Pencil Revolution
august 2005 by mottram
A weblog about pencils. I love pencils.
pencils
weblogs
writing
work
august 2005 by mottram
John Cage . Indeterminacy
june 2005 by mottram
"This site is about his paragraph-long stories -- anecdotes, thoughts, and jokes. As a lecture, or as an accompaniment to a Merce Cunningham dance, he would read them aloud, speaking quickly or slowly as the stories required so that one story was read per
music
writing
cage
june 2005 by mottram
More BdJ Rumours
april 2005 by mottram
There's no way Stewart Home is Belle, is there? I reckon she's Karen Eliot ;-)
weblogs
writing
identity
home
april 2005 by mottram
articles: the finest of the short nonfiction form
april 2005 by mottram
A nice compendium of articles from Aaron Swartz.
news
writing
articles
journalism
april 2005 by mottram
The Book Club Blog
march 2005 by mottram
A round up of the Belle De Jour identity saga. (Exhaustive to the point of being disturbing)
weblogs
writing
publishing
identity
march 2005 by mottram
The Glasgow Seeker
february 2005 by mottram
'a Glasgow Literary Review'. Some good prose, some mind-bogglingly poor poetry.
poetry
writing
prose
criticism
glasgow
february 2005 by mottram
Mac Geekery - NSTextField Shortcuts
february 2005 by mottram
OPT CTRL D will probably come in handy.
tips
osx
text
writing
february 2005 by mottram
The princess and the plea - [Sunday Herald]
december 2004 by mottram
Leon on Britney: "Rather than tackle the very real questions involved when dealing with the transformative effects of teenagers’ own sexual identities, the culture we have finds it easier to sell them a plastic, denatured image of it..."
culture
lenny
pop
social
society
writing
december 2004 by mottram
The idea home show
december 2004 by mottram
In which I pretty much say 'Cathy Wilkes? She rules OK! But I have no idea why! Or how! Yeah!' (Cracking headline, too, as usual from the Sunday Herald groaning pun squadron.)
art
conceptual
glasgow
installation
painting
sculpture
work
writing
december 2004 by mottram
Ginsberg's Celestial Homework
december 2004 by mottram
Specialized Reading List for "Literary History of the Beat Generation,"a course taught by Allen Ginsberg at Naropa Institute during the summer of 1977.
beat
ginsberg
literature
poetry
writing
december 2004 by mottram
Forwarding Address: OS X: Word completion in Cocoa apps
november 2004 by mottram
Pretty much useless to me, but handy to know about.
osx
tips
writing
november 2004 by mottram
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