Shhh! A Writer’s Guide: How To Focus By Destroying The World

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…gence. You need to destroy the world. HOW TO DESTROY THE WORLD Problem: My Computer is Really Great At Doing Stuff Modern computers are incredible. I’m sat here in a room aromatic with overstrong coffee, in front of my battered-looking Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A1650 laptop. Open Office, Photoshop Elements, The Complete National Geographic, Sid Meier’s Civilization III, Google Picasa, Spotify, Skype, e-books (like this one), PDF’d magazines, photos, o…

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…Thanks! For any other queries, drop me an e-mail at hunter.sowden AT gmail.com – or use the contact form below: Name(required) Email(required) Comment(required) Submit Δ On Fevered Mutterings and Advertising The short version: I don’t run sponsored posts (aka. paid guest posts) – sorry. I’d love to do advertising if it’s a really good fit for my site and my audience, but only if I can personally recommend the product or service itself, which is my…

How The Kindle Won Me Over In 7 Minutes

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…manually, but why bother when you can just e-mail it to yourself? A Kindle comes bundled with an Kindle account at Amazon, and your Kindle e-mail is your username with “@kindle.com” on the end. You e-mail your file to this addy – and the file automatically uploads to the Kindle, via its Wifi connection. Blink and you miss it. Or you can e-mail the file to Amazon, and they convert it into the easy-reading Kindle format and then mail it back…” “Sorr…

The Blog Post I Least Want You To Read

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…ilkworm IV at Dave’s?). You may laugh. You may joke. But the moment when I completed SwIV in front of jaw-slackened friends with only 2 lives left, on my own, in the helicopter, beating the previous record of just 40% of the game completed, was truly a sign that I was filled with the Awesome. In that moment, I tasted greatness. (Tastes like chicken). Worldly I wasn’t – but fiction set me off on the road to being the fairly outgoing and adventurous…

I May Be Some Time

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…og that doesn’t respect garden fences. That’s what I’m feeling as I wait to be called. And I’ve missed feeling like this. ***** Subject: Mikeachim Appearance: Unfortunate. Temperature: Normal. Blood Pressure: Normal. White Cell Count: Normal. Diagnosis: Probably kidney stone. Recommendation: Send home. Patient needs to drink more water, in hope of flushing out. If symptoms continue for longer than week, scan to confirm and progress with ultrasound…

Offline Maps: Can They Make You Smarter And Friendlier?

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…ere some of the world’s most famous cartographic marvels — some impossible complicated, as intricate as illuminated manuscripts, some riots of colour to the point of being garish . . . and all of them beautiful. Maps aren’t just educational. They’re educational art. 4. MAPS ARE FUN How about a London Underground style guide to France’s wine regions? And hey, when was the last time Google Earth was this much fun? ‘Nuff said. 5. MAPS ARE PROPAGANDA…

Geocaching 2.0: Now We Can ALL Get Arrested

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…y inexplicably spent £300 on during an ill-advised drunken visit to Amazon.com. Okay, I mock. But let’s look at what geocaching actually is. It’s: something that requires you to leave the house, albeit slightly pointlessly a hobby that almost always sends you somewhere new a hobby that often sends you somewhere new in your own neighbourhood an exciting new way to get arrested. Newly-added to which, it’s also a geeky hobby that doesn’t require expe…

Freelance Writing: What I Did Right

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…w than being an employee that can be laid off at any time. But however overcome with passion for your new career, you have to be practical. Entry-level writing doesn’t pay a lot. You’re doing a great job if it’s a sustainable income, but most writers have to bolster it with non-writing wages. I’m one of them. That’s been a big help. Don’t jump until you’re ready (but when you are ready, take a really big run-up). 8. I’m Thrifty Caveats: i) I’m onl…