This is the third installment of Writer Workflows and Stephen Hargrove graciously answers some questions about how he writes.
I stumbled across Stephen’s writing at Spirit of Nine when I was researching some small project. He writes about the geeky kind of stuff that piques my interest. For example, Stephen has developed his own blog archive system using Day One. Not to mention he has developed an impressive static blogging system based on Dropbox.
Clark Goble is the proprieter of the Clark Teck Blog. I’ve linked many times to his site. He writes about the nerdy scripting stuff that I love, like using mdfind with Mail.app. The content is chock-full of little gems of AppleScript and Python as well as well considered thoughts on technology. I think the best summary of his site is a quote from the About page:
I have a sense of “pay it forward” so that others don’t have to reinvent the wheel.
I think it's appropriate to start this series with someone that makes and shares some of my favorite Mac things. I conceived this series with Brett in mind.
Brett Terpstra is the creator of Marked, a partner in the development of NVAlt and the proprietor of brettterpstra.com, where he shares things like TextExpander snippets, Lorem Ipsum generators and super-power AppleScripts.
What are the applications you use for making a post to brettterpstra.
We all have our tools and workflows for creating content. I love some of mine while others feel like sand in my shorts every time I use them. I was inspired by the Mac Power Users workflow shows and became preoccupied with the process by which other Mac nerds research and compose articles on the web.
I wanted to know about their tools and about their process. I wanted to know if I could improve my system by looking to people that geek out with Markdown or Shell scripts or TextExpander.
