About six months ago I blogged about my Christmas gift to myself: a Svalboard keyboard. It’s a very non-standard design, very science-fictional looking. I wrote about my evolution of ergonomic design for typing in this post about my keyboards and meant to check back in. What is the experience been now that it’s a daily…
Novel.css: sample code for Obsidian to display nicely formatted standard book looks
One of the things I mentioned when talking about using Obsidian to write my novels was that I prefer looking at my writing in a book format: I like indents, and I prefer no spaces between my paragraphs unless there’s a section break. In fact, I hate that the core internet design, flush paragraphs, spaces…
The Elephant’s Song – a new short story for Patreon supporters
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Further Adventures in Going Down a Rabbit Hole: Adopting an Alternative Keyboard Layout
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An Overview of the State of Ergonomic Keyboards
I never gave much thought to my keyboard in my early 20s. It just came with the computer I purchased. If one died, I would go out and buy a $20 keyboard at the store, more often than not, I just had a couple lying around. I gave no thought to how it was made,…
Introducing Glyph: a keyboard only editing system
So here’s a project that I’ve been working on for the last 10 years that I’m going to just put out there for others to see what they think, or maybe use. I find editing large amounts of text in a modern OS to be painful to my wrists. Using a mouse to select text,…
Some reviews for my short story “In the Halls of the Makeshift King.”
The July/August issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine has a short story in of mine called “In the Halls of the Makeshift King.” As some of the reviews below point out, it’s one of my more philosophical pieces, less pew-pew-pew than people expect of me. But it’s a story I’m proud of for being heavy…
Caribbean Futurism and Beyond Conversations with Writers of Folklore, Fantasy, Science, and Speculative Fiction
During the pandemic I got an email from Jarrel De Matas inviting me to do an interview about Caribbean futurism and the books and stories I’d written. Jarrel has collected a series of interviews and fleshed them out with context and notes, and created a new entry in the Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction series…
Creating a custom Obsidian writing environment: a video guide
In the last post I showed how I use Obsidian, a lot of people asked what plugins and themes I used, so I went ahead and created a video that walks you through how to get started with one theme and two plugins to replicate 90% of what I do. The CSS code to style…
How I used Obsidian to custom roll my own writing environment/app
Several years ago I became entranced by the idea of a Zetelkasten, a method for linking notes together to create a sort of second brain. I’ve given presentations on how I used an app called Obsidian to create a group of ideas, research, and snippets that allowed me to continue writing stories in the middle…