When Vladimir Nabokov wrote he liked to use 3″ x 5″ cards which his wife typed up later as he dictated them. In Life magazine’s photo gallery, The Author of ‘Lolita’.

As I use notecards a lot to jot down memos as I travel I thought I might try this to actually finish my novel!

3 x 5 notecards for Lolita

The idea appeals to me, as there are only a few lines on the page. Not a whole page of white A4 making the prospect of filling it more daunting.

(Thanks to Stephani Spitzer.)

Dart – Google’s Structured Web Programming Language

Google announced Dart a dtructured web programming language.

It’s interesting in that in case be executed in a virtual machine or can be compiled into JavaScript. You could write something in Dart and compile it so that it will work in JavaScript in any browser.

As I’m currently slowly reading Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, it’ll take me a while to look into it, but hopefully I’ll be a better programmer by the time I get to look at it!