Winterly Scrivenings blog archives

Writing blog! It's a blog about writing and writerly things! Also includes the stuff from the old Avarthrel Blog.

• Welcome to my new writing blog Feb 24, 2017
• Slow but steady progress Apr 14, 2016
• Avarthrel Blog is now... Avarthrel Blog? Apr 4, 2014
• A small situation report Mar 29, 2014
• Not exactly critique this time Mar 8, 2014
• NaNoWriMo 2013: konekäännöskukkasia Mar 8, 2014
• Even more belated NaNoWriMo 2013 journal Mar 8, 2014
• Micro-rant: MediaWiki does this s*** again Feb 23, 2014
• Design notes go live again May 4, 2013
• A rather belated NaNoWriMo 2012 journal Apr 19, 2013
• New game project: The Blood of the Bartender Apr 14, 2013
• Commenting is coming! Commenting is coming! Apr 13, 2013
• So what I've been up to? Mar 13, 2013
• Integrating some bloggery Mar 12, 2013
• Don't laugh at failure Dec 11, 2012
• Back in MediaWiki Dec 8, 2012
• In related news, online commenting is still hard Dec 3, 2012
• NaNoWriMo 2012: konekäännöskukkasia Nov 25, 2012
• Pondering on licencing questions Oct 29, 2012
• Moving on to handling geographical data. Oct 23, 2012
• Writing is serious business Oct 13, 2012
• Tightening up Piwik privacy Sep 18, 2012
• MoinMoin: a blessing and a curse Sep 5, 2012
• A newbie makes wonders with Drupal Aug 22, 2012
• Website migration going well! Aug 11, 2012
• A thoughtful Disqussion Aug 3, 2012
• A newbie looks at Drupal Jul 17, 2012
• And here's a new website! May 31, 2012
• When a project becomes personal Mar 19, 2012
• The Actual Org-Mode Experiences Jan 25, 2012
• My NaNoWriMo 2011 journal Jan 13, 2012
• No, really, learning is eternal Jul 4, 2011
• Let's just use Emacs May 24, 2011
• Poor people can't afford cheap things May 9, 2011
• Vendor lock-in? In my open source? Mar 18, 2011
• You'll never know where you end up... Jan 18, 2011
• Necessary evils: character sexuality Nov 27, 2010
• And thus endeth NaNoWriMo. In victory. Nov 27, 2010
• NaNoWriMo: A third down, two thirds to go Nov 8, 2010
• Some deficiencies of the Semantic MediaWiki Sep 28, 2010
• Testing a "writer's word processor" May 10, 2010
• Do software licences get you down? May 2, 2010
• Surprisingly few non-news news Mar 13, 2010
• Grave Movable Type news Nov 16, 2009
• Dear ladies... Nov 11, 2009
• Whining on feedback Nov 10, 2009
• Once it's rolling... (...it's hard to publish it properly) Nov 10, 2009
• Waiting for an orthographical miracle Oct 13, 2009
• Spam and Freedom of Speech: A Long Late-Night Ramble Aug 13, 2009
• A foray in webcomics: Kara the Assassin Jul 17, 2009
• Heading to the uncharted territory... Jun 22, 2009
• Shady Characters Wreaking Havoc in Animal Crossing May 19, 2009
• A few links to Scribd May 19, 2009
• Musings about maps and measurement May 5, 2009
• Stories in scribd Apr 24, 2009
• Mapping with some boneheaded thoughts Apr 15, 2009
• New website design goes live! Mar 27, 2009
• Again some Random Tidbits Mar 13, 2009
• Avarthrel protagonists as Mii characters Feb 7, 2009
• Nastiness is too difficult? Feb 1, 2009
• Avarthrel licence and thoughts on fan fiction Jan 24, 2009
• Conman's Dictionary is kind of out there Jan 23, 2009
• StorYBook seems cool Jan 13, 2009
• An Update from a Git Dec 1, 2008
• Bad MSIE! Oct 21, 2008
• Failures to communicate? Oct 9, 2008
• Effects and tidbits Sep 30, 2008
• Mapping tool for visualisation Sep 25, 2008
• Thoughts on "The Sweet Side of Death" Sep 14, 2008
• Rapid development, woohoo! Sep 14, 2008
• The Sweet Side of Death is out Sep 7, 2008
• An illustration for the upcoming story Sep 3, 2008
• No forum for us! Sep 1, 2008
• Computer-assisted Canonicity? Sep 1, 2008
• Side bar, design ideas, and best synch since the feudal age Aug 25, 2008
• I've got to give up... Aug 24, 2008
• Wiki exporting doesn't really go as planned Aug 15, 2008
• Okay, no panic. Aug 15, 2008
• MT4.2 and random stuff Aug 14, 2008
• Stat blocks? What the heck? Jul 15, 2008
• Elfwood, here we come! Jul 12, 2008
• When Compassion Calls Jul 10, 2008
• A Tale of a Missing Ball: The first Avarthrel game Jul 6, 2008
• A few random technological updates... Jul 6, 2008
• New tabs, new ideas: More wikistuff Jul 4, 2008
• Genealogy Software for Fun and Weirdness Jun 30, 2008
• Random Retrospectives: Stuff That Even I Didn't Know Jun 19, 2008
• Some tidbits Jun 18, 2008
• Darcs freezed me in tracks... Jun 4, 2008
• Behold, a WordGrinder Jun 4, 2008
• The Factoid Rut May 10, 2008
• Semantic utopia ahead? May 10, 2008
• Movable Type Apr 29, 2008
• Avert thy eyes! Jan 29, 2008
• Metadata in OpenDocument is coming... Nov 7, 2007
• The darcs alleys of making stuff up Jul 21, 2007
• Some Thoughts on characters and descriptions Jul 21, 2007
• Flash fic week Jun 9, 2007
• Smarty hearty? Argh... May 27, 2007
• Random Stuff on Underside May 16, 2007
• The Carnival Wolves, in English Feb 16, 2007
• An Evil Communist opposes a Scam Publisher Feb 16, 2007
• The Carnival Wolves are Coming! Feb 9, 2007
• Funny narrative noted Feb 5, 2007
• Its the Talk: Some terrible observations on dialogue Jan 18, 2007
• CMS, your name is pain Jan 16, 2007
• Where MS Word is Really Wrong Jan 5, 2007
• What Really Was Wrong Dec 19, 2006
• Run Forrest Run... no, not against the wall Dec 7, 2006
• Why I Write: Copyright Paranoia Nov 9, 2006
• Typesetting is fun... or not Nov 7, 2006
• Timelines are painful, dates are difficult Nov 4, 2006
• Run, Forrest, run Oct 30, 2006
• Outlining the plan Sep 22, 2006
• My new friend is called GNOME Sound Recorder... Sep 19, 2006
• Conlanging is fun Sep 17, 2006
• Creative Commons stuff Sep 6, 2006
• Delays, delays, nooo contest Sep 2, 2006
• Slow Yet Fast Updates Aug 18, 2006
• Moving Blog To Hobix Aug 18, 2006
• Hello, How Did The Summer Go? Aug 18, 2006
• "Bidding for a Good Day" is out... Jul 30, 2006
• Why I write: Some ramblings on skepticism Jun 24, 2006
• What a day, what a day: A story, a dictionary, and stuff Jun 22, 2006
• Shadows Over Nothross: A few looks at the silly big thing Jun 15, 2006
• Shadows Over Nothross is out May 31, 2006
• A great big story is nearing completion May 31, 2006
• Logo stuff, and Other Random Editing Apr 28, 2006
• Random site update... Apr 5, 2006
• Well, some positive thoughts... Mar 24, 2006
• Learning from my mistakes Mar 16, 2006
• "Drop caps stink" and other typographical woes Mar 14, 2006
• More wikimoves and fun stuff Mar 12, 2006
• Oh, what a coincidence Mar 9, 2006
• AutoREALM works! Mar 9, 2006
• Writing down ideas... can be regrettable Mar 8, 2006
• Typo, Typo, oh Typo... Mar 5, 2006
• Some thoughts on free publishing Mar 5, 2006
• Some brouhaha over theatrical matters to be expected Mar 3, 2006
• Editorial lag and some weird ideas Mar 2, 2006
• And now for something different Feb 20, 2006
• Translation reveals a lot Feb 17, 2006
• Wikitwiddling and ODF woes Feb 15, 2006
• Progress, it seems Feb 15, 2006
• Snippy-snappy-yawn Jan 4, 2006
• Insignificant diddling Dec 30, 2005
• Web updates, why why why, and cliches Dec 27, 2005
• a Bl0g P0sT MaD3 wItH g3nOiN3 0-DaY WaR3z! Dec 23, 2005
• Wiki portability Dec 21, 2005
• More fun tools, and fun prices too Dec 20, 2005
• Another fun tool: Subversion Dec 10, 2005
• "Plagiarism" and whatnot Nov 26, 2005
• Verbosity and how to speak Nov 22, 2005
• Software does help at times Nov 15, 2005
• Graphics... Nov 15, 2005