One Creative Thing » writing

Too many to fit in a title!

minim — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:33:39 +0000

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!

Expanding this blog!

minim — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:23:12 +0000

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…

Solved the mystery of the IE8 bug…

minim — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:56:12 +0000

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

Got back to my morning pages

minim — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:50:14 +0000

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.

Wrote another few pages of my book

minim — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:52:26 +0000

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

Spent a very long time on a train

minim — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:56:03 +0000

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…