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I Wrote a Sentence Today
Something like don’t forget the pasta, and I found myself just looking at the words. I was thinking about all these things that we write,…
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How Many Times do I Have to Say This?
My advice to would be writers: start blogging. Why? Because blogging once a week helps instill the discipline necessary to becoming a writer. It forces…
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A New Way to Evernote
Many people in the Personal Knowledge Management field are getting excited by Maps of Content: a new way of organizing your notes. A Map of…
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Hitchhiking to the Discworld
I’m currently reading Terry Pratchett’s biography. (sponsored link). There’s a passage in there on the effect that the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy had on…
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Three Times I Predicted the Future
I took a parcel to be returned to Amazon to the shop around the corner and I realised I’d predicted this in Recursion. It might…
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Forbidden Words
On Sunday I’m going to my writing group. There are number of authors there, some well established, some newer. All of them provide valuable feedback.…
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Show Don’t Tell
Show don’t tell. There’s online debate at the moment about this advice traditionally given to writers. A lot of people are saying it’s over rated, that…
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The Proprioception of Christmas
Johnny Mathis reminds me of my childhood. My mother would play songs such as The Sounds of Christmas, It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like…
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Annabel
I was delighted to be asked to contribute a monologue to Pen to Print. I was even more delighted when I heard the results. If…
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The Crown S5 E3
I remember being pushed aside by one of Mohamed Al-Fayed’s goons as I walked through Harrods in the 1990s. They were clearing a path for…
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Rings of Partridge
Richard Feynman coined the term Cargo Cult Science: something that copies the form of science whilst ignoring the underlying rigour. Watching some old episodes recently…
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Expelliarmus!
I was teaching object-oriented programming the other day (don’t worry this isn’t a post about computers… ) when I came to the part where I…
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Tony Ballantyne 