Best of the Web: Microsoft Live, Writing Novels & Taxes

Even while travelling for almost two weeks, I’ve been able to track down some excellent new information on the web of particular interest to writers.

Microsoft Office Live Workspace

Still in beta, Microsoft Office Live Workspace offers to users of Microsoft Word an online workspace where one can store and share documents, and even do modest work on them. It is Microsoft’s answer to such challengers as Google Documents, Zoho and ThinkFree. So far, this facility leaves a lot to be desired, but then it is only still in beta. This new online facility may develop into an important resource for writers wedded to Microsoft Word. For an excellent review, take at look at the brand new blog Vacant Cubicle, which, by the way, even on its second day of existence promises to be a particularly fine source of reviews and information about productivity software and tricks.

Jeff VanderMeer on Writing Novels

Novelist Jeff VanderMeer wrote a particularly good post at his blog Ecstatic Days entitled How To Write A Novel In Two Months. His blog, by the way, is an excellent case study of a writer’s promotional blog and website, worth study to see how such a site can be put together. His blog started out on the free Blogger platform, before he transferred over to the more powerful WordPress.

Resources for Freelancers regarding, ugh, taxes

Jessica Hupp at Bootstrapper has pulled together 50 sources of information about taxes for freelancers. Not the most entertaining of posts, but informative at this time of year.

If you maintain a home office for writing, you may wish to look at this discouraging post at Web Worker Daily.

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