One Creative Thing: Just a little bit every day

Wednesday, 27 January 2010

Too many to fit in a title!

A productive day! I’ve started reading and making notes on Walt Whitman’s essays, via my iPod Touch. I typed up and did a rough edit of an article I’m working on. Spent 25 minutes on the 2nd Whitman song in which I managed to iron out all its rhythmic niggles. Balanced my petty cash. And right now I’m installing the Pro Tools Snow Leopard upgrade so the MBox will be installed so I can set up Hyperscribe to allow me to improvise directly from the piano into Finale. Not bad!

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Wednesday, 20 January 2010

Expanding this blog!

I decided on the way home this evening, after contemplating and discarding a number of approaches (including a new, anonymous blog, which then raised the question of how do you promote an anonymous blog?) that I’m going to start creating the occasional longer post for this blog, addressing various topics to do with creativity, productivity and related topics. I’m hopefully going to post the first one on the weekend, but for now, I’ve written a letter to explain what on Earth I’m thinking…

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Thursday, 5 November 2009

Solved the mystery of the IE8 bug…

… and wrote a blog post about it on the train.

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Monday, 26 October 2009

Got back to my morning pages

It’s been a couple of weeks, almost, since I last did my pages regularly, and I’ve missed them. They really help me to think straight and work out what I need to do, so I think this is a step in the right direction again.

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Tuesday, 1 September 2009

Wrote another few pages of my book

It’s still horribly random and disconnected, but it’s gradually taking shape. The first edit should help a LOT.

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Thursday, 20 August 2009

Spent a very long time on a train

very profitably, actually. My book has progressed by about another 4-5 pages and I’ve managed to cut down my read/review list by about 30 items too, thanks to the Bristol to Paddington train being delayed by two hours. Then this evening I’ve been trying out a bunch of utilities for my Mac, including the amazing Quicksilver, WideMail, iTool, MailTags and Disk Inventory X. I’ll definitely be keeping Quicksilver; the others are on probation but I think there’s a fair chance that MailTags will be useful enough to actually pay for…

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