Here's another nice tidbit. #Novelist
..I'd published nothing that year while the large and deformed
body of my novel hulked over me like Quasimodo's shadow, and, deprived of the pleasures of variety and visibility, murmured to myself self-pityingly, "I used to be a writer but now I'm a novelist."
RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@dpiponi/117383177091758060
The "System Analysis and Programming" article by Christopher Strachey caught my eye. Not only because it is a good read. So much of what was true about programming then is still very true today.
I wrote a HyperTalk version of his Strachey love letter algorithm in HyperCard last year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strachey_love_letter_algorithm
- Rosellen Brown: "Don't Just Sit There: Writing as a Polymorphous Perverse Pleasure" 2/2
https://bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com/sites.middlebury.edu/dist/2/51/files/2014/08/DontJustSitThere.pdf
Whilst searching for references I came across this interesting article. #Writing
"If it begins to feel too easy to do something, change forms.
Make yourself an amateur in a new genre. Professionalism is something we want in airplane pilots and plumbers.
But writers should always be doing something new and therefore dangerous, putting their feet down carefully the first time, feeling themselves walking over an abyss, or leaping into space without any idea where they'll come down." 1/2
“Now we have one-sided conversations."
Musings about government management, late-night modeling, the one-sided conversations we have with late parents, and a manifesto against learned helplessness.
https://ko-fi.com/post/Morning-Rituals--I-am-old-So-are-my-rituals-V4S5286VAT
Back from the last camping trip of the year. Temps were brisk at night and you couldn’t ask for more beautiful late summer weather.
Hello friends. I've migrated to mastodon.social as you might have noticed.
Back from VCF Midwest and finally recovered - mostly. Was great seeing everyone there.
Working on ideas from next year's VCF display. I've got a few ideas for a display. Yes, it'll involve #HyperCard as it always does. My next game will take years to create so I have a few small titles I want to build in the meantime.