Winkletter

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A novelist in training. A product designer. Now publishing about my journey as a writer.
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WinkletterMar 9
Learn how to destabilize your writing process so you don't end up over-optimizing yourself out of truly creative work.

https://writingstreak.substack.com/p/creative-destabilization
WinkletterMar 2
Building a writing habit means managing scope.
WinkletterJan 22
A while back I made a simple fantasy map in a spreadsheet for plotting a story. Today I decided to drop that into Nano Banana to see if it could turn it into a map. I think it would have turned out even better if I'd explained what any of the people or places were.
WinkletterJan 22
I almost missed an opportunity to go meta and full self-referential. Here's my infographic about my idea to turn my journal entries into infographics... based on my personal journal entry for today.
WinkletterJan 22
I found another use for NotebookLM, to turn my journal entries into infographics. Why? I read my journal every now and again, by which I mean rarely, i.e. almost never. But what if I had a folder of infographics I could browse instead? Here is what I wrote about the past four years.
WinkletterJan 22

Which kind of writer are you? I'm definitely the big guy with the boulder most days.

#AIart

WinkletterNov 22
I'm impressed by NotebookLM's new infographics. I've gotten a few wonky results, especially when they contain lots of data. But there's not much I'd want to change on this graphic where I'm trying to expand the classic pillars of rhetoric to better define the context of writing.
WinkletterNov 8

> The morning soured the moment a stink bug on the window dropped into the pancake batter.
#lineaday

In this line I wanted to explore using articles. When do we use "the" and when do we use "a"? Grammar rules don't really cover all the circumstances. Most of the time we have to feel our way to an answer/the answer.

WinkletterNov 7

> Nunchucks, walkie talkies, and skateboards with irreverent stickers gave childhood the taste of freedom.
#lineaday

I like this line that works a bit like a puzzle. Does anyone remember The $25,000 Pyramid? It works a bit like that. Based on a sentence by Cyril Connolly writing as Palinurus.

WinkletterNov 4

> In the end, we found this one truth to be unverifiable.
#lineaday

This line leans forward to the next. The "this" could refer to something in the previous sentence, but it feels more like its meaning will be revealed.