Writing - Sam Hardacre

Writing

A collection of 6 posts

Wrestling with character

Most people who know me will probably be sick of hearing me say that I’m working on a comic. Hell, I’m sick of telling people and not just getting on with it. I have a protagonist, some characters he meets along the way and an antagonist and his

Slaying pedantry and trolls

Since December 2008, at least once a year, I listen to Stephen Fry's podcast on language [http://www.stephenfry.com/2008/12/22/series-2-episode-3-language/]. The subject in itself is fascinating but the delivery has all the rhythm, pace and in some sense even a melody making it a listening experience

Writing on the move

Recently I've seen a couple of new [http://scriptogr.am/] services [http://calepin.co/] popping up on Twitter which use a combination of markdown text files and Dropbox to create a blog. Since they we both free to sign up and I have a Dropbox account that I use religiously,

Ideas of March

Pretty much every day while eating lunch, I spend some time trawling my Twitter stream and going through my Delicious network for things of interest to check out. This particular lunchtime, I came across a post by Drew McLellan [http://allinthehead.com/retro/354/ideas-of-march] expressing his support of an

Evernote for writing

When I first built this site, I started a blog which was terribly built, not in a CMS and a nightmare to maintain. Back in those days, I didn't think about keeping copies of things so that site is now lost in the depths of time but the motivation to

Taking on another project

On the run up to Christmas 2009, I started seeing lots of chat and murmurings about something called Project52 [http://project52.info/]. I seem to remember seeing mentions of it the year before but this time there were a fair few people chatting about it, so I went and had