Recently, I went from having a minimalist website to suddenly being HexDSL, WordPress user! It was quite an event. I migrated from hexdsl.co.uk to hexdsl.com, hosted by NameCheap via EasyWP. Well, while all that was excellent and I was happy the renewal that would be due in a year worried me, not a lot, but…
Music (have a playlist link)
I like a specific kind of Synthwave, also I like modern music that sounds like it could have been made in the 80’s. Below is a playlist of “that kind of stuff” My most listened too artists include Sunglasses Kid, Primo and, of course, the Midnight. I have this playlist that my daughter and I…
Aeon Timeline – How useful did it turn out to be?
I am currently working on a science fiction story that is planned to span three or four books. It has been a lot of fun to write so far (the first book is in the editing oven, the second one is half drafted. More on this in June). Because of this, I’m using Aeon Timeline…
Scrivener doesn’t do it all, an annoying missing feature!
Scrivener is a wonderful application, so much so that it’s becoming more and more, simply the default for me whenever I need to order thoughts in the form of words. Though, with my current workflow I tend to write mostly in Microsoft Word, then transplant the finished product to Scrivener where I’ll tweak, tinker and…
New domain. New website. New me!
I have no way of knowing if you ended up here because you visited hexdsl.co.uk or because you went to hexdsl.com. Actually, you may have clicked a link and have no idea how you got here. It’s your business and it should stay that way. You may however have noticed that you have landed on…
Hunter’s Garden: Behind the scenes.
“Hunter’s Garden” is the name of the first work of fiction that I posted here on this website. It was posted in chapters as I wrote it. I learned that this was a terrible way to write and share a book. I will not be doing it this way again. A book is formed slowly…
Universal paperclips. A Clicker.
I like clickers. I especially like GOOD clickers. By good I mean the kind that eats you every waking moment until its made its way entirely though the addicted part of your brain and out of the other side leaving you feeling reborn. This is exactly that in something that takes about two to ten…
Book Club: Dune – Messiah by Frank Herbert
I enjoyed Dune. The first one was excellent. It was a little long in places but overall it was cohesive and enjoyable. It put forward interesting ideas and was a verbose but carefully told story. While not totally to my tastes I basked in it’s verbosity and left thinking it was a master piece; though…
Book Club: Dune by Frank Herbert
As much as this is out of character for me I am going to try and keep this brief. The reason is that there is no way anyone hasn’t heard of this book and most people who give a shit will have already read it, or bounced on it already. I tried to read Dune…
The opening line: Stranger in a Strange Land
I love this novel, I think its one of Robert A Heinlein’s finest offerings. I have wrote about it in great depth in the past, but were only here to talk about the first line today. “Once upon a time when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.” Once upon a time…