A Bijou Update

I’ve been a little bit quiet here recently – job hunting, a weekend in Krakow, and then my gran passed away. I now have a new job lined up, but more on that in the future.

I’ve spent this afternoon doing a bit of a redesign on the site (which you won’t be able to see if you’re reading the feed version of this) – it had been bugging me for a while. I find it a lot more readable, and hopefully you will too.

Proper semi-regular posting will now resume, but here are a few links I’ve been reading recently:

• Who Moved My Brain?: More from Merlin Mann on time & attention.
• Complexity Without Commitment: Denis McGrath provides a link to an article about JJ Abrams balancing serial and standalone episodes in his shows. There’s also a follow-up post, I Was Lost But Now I’m Found.
• Spanking Death: Interview with game designer Ron Gilbert (Monkey Island).

As for my writing, I’m very behind. I keep having new ideas, which I suppose is good, but really, the big thing for me is to get a draft of my entry for the Red Planet Prize together. That’s my goal for this week.

Oh, and I love this Paddy Chayefsky quote on Denis McGrath’s blog:

Artists don’t talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it’s stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.