"...Hence the extreme difficulty. But I hope perhaps tomorrow to have done, and then the dinner party and Kitty in the country should go quicker. At least I find the upper air scenes much simpler; and I think it's right to keep them so. But Lord what a lot of work still to do! It won't be done before August. And here I am plagued by the sudden wish to write an anti-Fascist pamphlet."
Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf
one leaf flapping; then completely smooth for a moment; then prickled; thorns like glass; but leaping up and down incessantly; a rapid smirch of shadow. Now light from the sun; green and red; shiny; the pond a sage green; the grass brilliant green; red berries on the hedge; the cows very white; purple over Asheham.
A violent rain storm on the pond. The pond is covered with little white thorns; springing up and down: the pond is bristling with leaping white thorns, like the thorns on a small porcupine; bristles; then black waves; cross it; black shudders; and the little water thorns are white; a helter skelter rain and the elms tossing it up and down; the pond overflowing on one side; lily leaves tugging; the red flower swimming about;
Writing is a craft; it takes practice. The evocative power of ethnography to convey understanding requires careful attention to words. Words matter. Notes, fragments and jottings are the opening gambit of anthropology. They give energy to anthropologists' writing and give us subjects to write about. We often begin with stories, fragments, and ethnographic shorts. These…
For the last few weeks, I've been drafting in Tinderbox my book Makeshift using the fantastic Departure Mono font. It is a monospaced pixel font, reminiscent of the fonts I used to learn to type on in the 1990s command-line interfaces and that Atari ST's Graphical User Interface, which I learned to write on. It's…
Writer’s Diary #24: A 21st Century Typewriter
Ezra Klein has a great interview with [Tom Hanks] (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-tom-hanks.html). It starts with Klein and Hanks talking typewriters. I loved it.
One detail, the custom-made typewriter desk Hanks had built. Another, the fact that he writes a quick letter to his wife, running out the door at
https://www.tubb.ca/2023/07/a-21st-century-typewriter/
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Writer’s Diary #21 – Yesterday, a good day. Why?
Yesterday, I had what felt like an unusually good day of writing. So, I want to reflect on what worked. Of course, with an eye on how to repeat it.
Some observations:
Writing was the priority. I didn’t schedule writing, nor plan it, nor interrupt it by looking at email, news, or anything else.
https://www.tubb.ca/2023/07/writers-diary-21-yesterday-a-good-day-why/
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