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Writings / Instructional

Panster-Friendly Story Planning

Writing is hard. It's even more difficult if we spiral down a rabbit hole of wasteful exploratory churn. Fortunately, modest planning techniques can help pilot the narrative back on course, no matter the medium: corporate presentation, how-to manual, flash fiction, novel, memoir, or even a sonnet.

Citing Social-Media Sources (Author-Date)

I needed a cheatsheet for citing social media sources. The CMoS has a LOT to say on the topic, but is also rather lacking in crystal-clear examples for typical scenarios. And many of the examples online are either wrong or out of date. ∴ I made this and then decided to share it with y'all.

Spelling is Hard

More musings on the English language. In this second entry on the topic, we focus on the spelling trainwreck that is the English language.

Free and Open-Source Applications for Writers

Plenty of tools exist that support the writing process. Let me describe what works for me and how I use them.

Bullet Journal for 2020, a Minimal Setup

The Bullet Journal Method is a simple, straight-forward, highly-effective, flexible methodology for bringing order to your life. Let me walk you through my basic setup for 2020.

Minuses, Hyphens and Dashes. Oh, My!

The dash family of punctuation—minus, hyphen, en dash, em dash, and more.

The Truth Therein Lies

Musings on the English language.

Poison Ivy

Poison ivy is my nemesis. And in the South, poison ivy is literally everywhere.

Deploying Ghost on Fedora Linux

The combination of Ghost and Fedora Linux gives you a powerful, and relatively simple, platform for blogging. Let me show you how to deploy this popular application stack.