![]() ![]() So outLINES and timeLINES feel very restrictive just by their shape. As it turns out, I hate linear thinking when I'm trying to 'see' a story in my head. So I simply considered myself a pantser and ran myself into a lot of problems. I'm terrible at planning because I'm perfectionistic, forgetful, and disorganized which is a horrible combination. And know what recursion is.After a few days of trialing Scapple from Literature & Latte I found that I liked it so much and the price was reasonable so I bought it far before the trial end date. He plays piano and guitar with two friends in a band called Serendipity, and fosters cats for Cats Protection because if there’s one thing he learned during that MSc, it’s that all programmers should have a cat. He once almost vomited rotten shark over the Icelandic Prime Minister. Ian has read the Aubrey-Maturin sequence of novels by Patrick O’Brian twice, and is halfway through them again, but still gets seasick. Most interesting novels he's read, in no particular order: The Darkness of Wallace Simpson The Hollow Man To Kill A Mockingbird Dr Zhivago Slaughterhouse-Five True Grit The Salmon of Doubt. William Gibson is a constant delight, and Tolstoy a constant headache (how do people remember all the characters? Scapple?). Dan Brown-sorry, everyone-towards the bottom. ![]() For spare time reading, Hemingway is towards the top of the list. He writes every day first drafts always on pen and paper. Ian’s now working on macOS/iOS products, notably Scapple. ![]() To his surprise, Keith, from company number one, got back to him, and the rest is employment history. Because his MSc in Computer Science required an internship, he made a short list of the companies whose products he admired. Having completed rather more than forty successful orbits of the sun, Ian decided that the challenges of his day job as an academic researcher and department head in a small, south eastern UK university were likely to be roughly similar for the next twenty years at least, so he packed it all in for his first love: bothering computers. Deja Vu has been optioned for movies several times but never made-why not make a ‘deja vu’ joke about it when you see Ian next? He loves that! He’s also had short fiction published in an anthology alongside Christopher Priest (who, in his defence, wasn’t aware of it at the time). Since then, he’s published three more novels-two follow-ups to Deja Vu, as well as a coming-of-age comedy called Proper Job, set in Cornwall and about the surprisingly dangerous job of ice-cream van driver. Ian began writing about himself in the third person several years ago on the back of his first novel, the technothriller Deja Vu. We're united by a love of writing and literature, our pride in our products, and the respect we have for our customers and the community that has grown up around our software.Īnd why “Literature & Latte”? Because our apps are designed to make writers feel right at home-like your favourite bookstore or coffee shop. While our headquarters are in Cornwall, UK, our small team spans the globe. It's helped turn napkins into novels, thoughts into theses and scribbles into screenplays. Literature & Latte was founded in 2006 to answer such questions, and our award-winning software is now used by thousands of writers the world over. What if moving index cards on a corkboard changed the structure of your manuscript? What if you could move notes around on an infinite sheet of paper? Everything we do is born of a passion for bringing together processes familiar to writers in new and exciting ways. We are Literature & Latte, a software company founded by writers for writers. ![]()
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