“The last thing your creative brain needs is a klaxon shouting WRONG while you’re in the middle of a creative thought. Eventually, as you use Neo, you’ll stop thinking about spelling and typos. This will push your creativity to the next level. You can always step through a spell check any time you like. But not while you’re writing.” Hugh Howey, author of the Wool series, proposes a new word processor called Neo.“I’m currently talking with programmers and consultants on how to get this done,” he writes on his blog, describing the application’s potential features. “Might be a decade before anything comes to light, so don’t hold your breath. But I’m willing to invest the time and money to make this a reality.” Pair with programmer Philip Hopkins‘s meditation on code and writing.
Scrivening a New Scrivener
The Detroit Comeback
Writing for Popular Mechanics, our own Bill Morris “envisions the bright future of the great American city” he once called home: Detroit.
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Two Tools for your TBR Pile
One Goodreads vigilante has created a master list of authors notorious for responding immaturely or meanly to negative reviews of their work. Elsewhere, iDreamBooks, a new Rotten Tomatoes-type service, was launched. The site aggregates critics’ book reviews and shows you what to read next.
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My Ironic Valentine
Regardless of your Valentine's Day plans, do not take advice from Nate Piven, the protagonist of Adelle Waldman's The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. Ron Charles asked Waldman to write another scene of Nate's romantic saga. "He decided it would be best to hedge his bets by getting her something 'ironic.'"
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Raised on B-Movies
I've loved old sci-fi B-movies forever, and a staggering number of my childhood memories involve Ray Harryhausen. For this reason, I'm really geeking out over The New Yorker’s entire science fiction issue, but in particular this piece by Colson Whitehead deserves your time.
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“Maybe a mixtape will help.”
Recommended Reading: Rafe Posey’s Rumpus essay, “Coming Out, Again and Again, in 27 Easy Steps.”
Chante, You Stay
Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Alexander Stein takes a look at lip-syncing, gender performativity, and the greatest television show ever made, RuPaul's Drag Race.
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Hemingwrite
Modern technology has finally developed a device that aims to aid all perpetually distracted writers - the cleverly titled Hemingwrite.
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The article is about vaporware and the developer even admits it might take 10 yrs to develop (which is another way of saying he isn’t very motivated). Spell check can be disabled. To create a no-distraction Scrivener environment, hide the Binder and the Inspector and choose either Composition Mode or Full Screen mode.