Notes From The Engine Room XXXVI
Meta Letta I should never have bragged about being ahead of schedule in the last two weeks. When will I learn that neither easy nor smooth are the leitmotif...
Notes From The Engine Room XXXV
Meta Letta Well, this is a turn-up for the books! As I begin to write this issue 35, issue 34 is scheduled to go out tomorrow! For the first time since...
Notes From The Engine Room XXXIV
Meta Letta This run-up to Christmas is going to be busy. I mean, sure, there are all the usual reasons related to reaching work deadlines ahead of the year,...
Notes From The Engine Room XXXIII
Meta Letta I'm going to try something crazy here and actually start this newsletter... in advance of the deadline! Perhaps at least starting to write a few...
Notes From The Engine Room XXXII
Meta Letta One thing established photographers do from time to time is writing articles about the equipment they use; partly to illuminate their methods, and...
Notes From The Engine Room XXXI
Meta Letta I've reached the point where I'm beginning to have second thoughts about using Roman numerals for each edition of the newsletter. It might have...
Notes From The Engine Room XXX
Meta Letta For what is apparently the XXX edition of this fine newsletter, it is actually going to be quite tame. If I'd planned ahead in any way at all, I'd...
Notes From The Engine Room XXIX
Meta Letta Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions! Being very impressed by your humble correspondent in his day job, his employers...
Notes From The Engine Room XXVIII
Meta Letta After passing the six month anniversary, working on issue 28 feels almost workmanlike; not quite pedestrian, but certainly part of the weekly...
Notes From The Engine Room XXVII
Meta Letta Last issue, when I said my plans for this six month anniversary edition were grand I was thinking grand as in grandiose, not grand as in large....
Notes From The Engine Room XXVI
Meta Letta I think this is the latest I've ever sent this out. Time, it turns out, is not a flat circle; it's an entropic fractal. But, I had such grand...
Notes From The Engine Room XXV
Meta Letta At time of writing these words, I'm sweating in a new pub that's hoping to thrive on borrowed nostalgia. It has the same name as something nobody...
Notes From The Engine Room XXIV
Meta Letta It feels like every other newsletter introduction is some form of cry for help; a handwringing as to whether I'll be able to pull anything out of...
Notes From The Engine Room XXIII
Meta Letta It may surprise you to know that I don’t enjoy self-promotion. Wait, that’s not right: I don’t enjoy creating advertorial style updates, whether...
Notes From The Engine Room XXII
Meta Letta A decent novel tends to be around 80k words long. NaNoWriMo asks a mere 50k words of you, and anything over 40k words is considered novel-length,...
Notes from the Engine Room XXI
Meta Letta The gods of writing are really capricious little goblins; they'll punish hubris as much as humility, only to then reward them on a whim, bestowing...
Notes from the Engine Room XX
Meta Letta This is one of those weeks again, where I sit at the keyboard and wonder whether I’m going to find anything to write about. Where I just have to...
Notes from the Engine Room XIX
Meta Letta You know what the worst sound is that a computer can make when you try to turn it on? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Thundering silence. That's what...
Notes from the Engine Room XVIII
Meta Letta My favourite bit of feedback I ever received with regards to this newsletter was: "The meta bit, it's a bit self-referential isn't it?" I love...
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