The beta for Scrivener for Windows is available now. I picked it up on Monday, and I spent some time learning it and using my Tour de Holmes essays as a project to test it out with. I hadn’t used Scrivener before, but my Mac friends have consistently raved about it, and this seemed like [...]
Want to read this along with me? This essay is part of The Sign of the Four, published in 1890. I used the epub version found on Feedbooks.com. On to the second Holmes story, and the second Holmes novel. This one was written three years after A Study in Scarlet, and there’s a noticeable difference [...]
So I’ve noticed a trend where I post to Twitter some crazy writing idea, and I end up running into someone who turns it around on me and really makes me think about it. I won’t reconstruct the chain of events, but the practical upshot is I am thinking again about public domain characters. Specifically, [...]
Want to read this along with me? This essay is part of A Study in Scarlet, published in 1887. I used the epub version found on Feedbooks.com. Don’t worry – I’m not going to cover every chapter in the level of detail that I did in the last two essays. It’s just that the first [...]
Want to read this along with me? This essay is part of A Study in Scarlet, published in 1887. I used the epub version found on Feedbooks.com. Now that I’ve covered some of the high points of our faithful chronicler, let’s move on to the star of our tour, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, soon to be [...]
One of my design coworkers, who will remain nameless in order to preserve his dignity, told me a dirty little secret: video game designers really aren’t that clever. He told me that they just keep tossing out idea after idea and turning them over and over until something good comes out of it. I then [...]
Want to read this along with me? This essay is part of A Study in Scarlet, published in 1887. I used the epub version found on Feedbooks.com. Since these essays, by necessity, discuss the plot points of each story, I encourage you to read them after you’ve read the story in question. Of course, now [...]