by Nigel Blackwell | Diane Capri, Jess Kimball, Writing
Diane has been a friend of mine in several online writing groups for some years. She’s a prolific writer with thirty-plus books to her name. She’s talented, hardworking, and generous with her wisdom – all of which has helped her to the USA Today and...
by Nigel Blackwell | Life, Paris Love Match, Writing
Book covers are works of art in their own right. Mine was made from the image above, a good deal of photoshop, and a lot more artistic talent than I’m blessed with. The original picture is from a stock library. I like the style, the fact that the images were Parisian,...
by Nigel Blackwell | Writing, Writing Geek
Hello and welcome back. Good to see you again. So Nigel, you’re going to explain how to write device drivers for SCSI disks today, yeah? No. Not by a long way. For two reasons. 1) Why would I want to? Ok, ok, I’m a geek. Why would I need to? 2) This is a...
by Nigel Blackwell | Writing
Welcome back. Ok. Time for a break. Something off topic today (this guy has a topic???? -ed). A few years ago- How many? Well, quite a lot. Like? Ten? Could be. Twenty? Er … I’m not telling, but it was a bunch of years ago. Ok. So, can I get back to being...
by Nigel Blackwell | Writing, Writing Geek
Welcome back. This is the last post on Scrivener for a while. I’m going to be moving on to a few other tech/writing topics next. I use Scrivener all the time so I’m sure I’ll be returning to it again at some stage. And if you’ve got any...
by Nigel Blackwell | Writing, Writing Geek
So, after my last post, you’ve played with Scrivener and now you’re an expert in folders and text sections, right? Yep. Good. Because now we can stop messing about and get into the stuff that makes Scrivener better than anything else. Lets jump straight in. Here (as...