Tag: tools
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Ode to a Mid-2010 MacBook Pro
My MacBook died yesterday. Shit. It wasn’t a full-on, catastrophic death, the kind with no backup and fire and smoke and no hope. It was more of a long goodbye. I replaced the battery last fall, the third battery in its almost five years of heavy use. It looked like the battery was holding a…
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Scrivener Tips, Redux
I am in the midst of production work for my next book, and this is the time I always learn new things about Scrivener. Here are some random bits of info. If this makes no sense to you, don’t worry; I’m mostly documenting this so that a year from now, I’ll google it again and…
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On writing tools
In my last post, I talked about my old standby writing tool, emacs, and how I’ve made a gradual break from it. So here’s what I’ve been doing. First, there was a recent stream of different full-screen writing tools dumped on the market. It’s the latest fad: some program that closes off everything but a…