HWC Edinburgh - Writing session on Tue 11 March

Fran

An experiment! In addition to the usual meetup (Tue 25 Mar), this month we'll try to organise a writing session.

Same place and time: the Costa in Waverley Mall, ~ 17:30 till 19:00. Bring your laptop, notebook, or favourite phone + bluetooth + blue-tack contraption. See you there 👋

Fran

Event confirmed, see you tomorrow! 🍵

Fran

Thanks to all who joined the writing session today! We heard of power stations, content filtering, why you started blogging and old ladies in the middle of the street. And much typing happened.

A satellite picture of the event, zoomed in and enhanced:

Colin

It was enjoyable to sit down and write together, so I'm glad you had the idea! I (surprisingly) did sleep last night after accidentally ordering the "2 pint" sized cup of coffee.

Alistair Shepherd

It's crazy the power of AI image enhancers these days!

Alistair Shepherd

I've just published the post I wrote yesterday here: https://alistairshepherd.uk/writing/blog-questions-challenge/

capjamesg

The photos turned out great! @Alistair Shepherd I can imagine you saying "enhance, enhance" as you prepared the photo above 😃

I had so much fun writing yesterday. Being surrounded by people motivated me to write about some ideas I have had in my notes but had not yet explored.

Here is the post I wrote about content firehoses: https://jamesg.blog/2025/03/12/filtering-over-content-firehoses

And one on how I designed the post draft experience on my website: https://jamesg.blog/2025/03/11/blog-draft-design

capjamesg

Also, should we schedule another one of these sessions for a month from now? I'd be excited to do this again!

Alistair Shepherd

I'd be keen to do this again! It'll be good to keep me writing rather than letting it slip.

Fran

Sounds good to me, Tue 8th or 15th of April?

capjamesg

The 8th would be ideal if people are interested!

Colin

8th OK for me too..

Alistair Shepherd

Either work for me!