How to sync Scrivener with any text editor (and go mobile too)
Something I wrote for Write for Your Life that you might find useful. Well, if you use Scrivener, anyway.
If you watch nothing else today, take two minutes to watch this breathtaking labour of love: a stop-motion film of books playing after closing time.
Delightful.
(via benjohncock)
Here’s an extract from my novel, A is for Angelica.
It comes right in the middle of a chapter that’s right in the middle of the book. The chapter is called New Testament.
There’s quite a bit of dialogue in the extract, which is generally trickier to read/perform, but that’s also why it’s worth recording and listening back. You know, for practice and that.
Hope you likey.
Just read: The Judgement and In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
Yikes! Grim! Wasn’t expecting that. Quite enjoyable though, in an unpleasant, gory sort of a way.
Just read: Bringing it all back home by Ian Clayton. Glorious, beautifully written memoir about growing up in the north, places and people, and above all, music. Also, totally and utterly heartbreaking. I cried and cried.
Abandoned: The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich. I got halfway through but couldn’t take the awful writing any longer. Watch the film.
Now that’s what I call… what Iain listened to in 2011!
I made a Spotify list of stuff I’ve been listening to this year. It wasn’t necessarily released this year. But I listened to it anyway. Just because I could.
If I ever own a house big enough (or at all at this rate), I’ll probably be buying and sticking up a few of these because they are great and have a variety of Sheffield and Newcastle/Gateshead prints. They’re ace.
They are wonderful aren’t they? And created by my pal, Jonathan, husband of friend and colleague, Joanne, who is also co-organiser of Words Aloud. Sheffield Connexions FTW!!!
Plain Song by Native and the Name, directed by Nick Park
I mentioned this a while back, but my pal Joe and his band have just released their first album and the lead single, Plain Song, is directed by Nick Park. I was part of the audience for the live shots. Even if you look closely, you won’t see me.
Also, I made their website for them.
A new site for The Workshop
I’ve spent the best part of six weeks working on the new company website here at The Workshop. It’s very much a 1.0, but that’s an achievement in itself.
When you work for a busy design agency, it’s difficult to set the time aside to work on your own projects. So we decided to dedicate this short period of development time to the site and then iterate as we go.
It’s been great fun to work on and there are lots of plans in store. I’m looking forward to putting more ideas into practice.
