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Fiction: Beasts of Union County
For Halloween 2023, a fun little tale, set in my adopted hometown.
Note Making
Spatial Models for Relating Ideas
A visual, spatial mental model can remind us to explore ideas more fully.
Capturing Motive and Rediscovery Enhances the Usefulness of Notes
What’s my motive for taking this note? When would rediscovering this note be useful? Adding these two questions to your note making template can make the act of note making more intentional … and decrease the odds that your notes will gather dust. Why Did I Start Using These Questions? When I first started taking […]
A Process for Reading Books and Making Notes in Obsidian
A process for taking book notes in Obsidian — and lessons learned along the way.
All Roads Lead to … Obsidian?
After a year of using Roam Research, I’ve moved to Obsidian.
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On Writing
How to Choose Which Novel You Should Write First
After decades of procrastination, I had more than fifty half-baked ideas for novels floating around…
I’ve decided to write a novel. In public. Using Obsidian.md.
Writing a Novel In a Nutshell: I’m writing a novel, live, online, in Obsidian.md ……
Generating Short Fiction with Random Input from Roam Research
Author’s Note: This post is about a process I used to create a short story:…
Fiction: Bloom
Author’s Note: I wrote this short story using a process I developed for use within…