Tools and Trade Secrets for Aspiring Writers
One of the genuine classics in books about the writing life is Dorothea Brande’s Becoming A Writer, first published in 1934. Fortunately, it has been reprinted, with a foreward by John Gardner. This book offers very wise insights into the process of writing. It served as one of the inspirations of [...]
Words can be very visual — and lots of fun. By happenstance, I’ve come across a couple of websites that truly demonstrate that.
Visuwords
Visuwords is an absolutely intriguing website that does graphical wonders exploring meanings and connections of words. It’s been around for almost a year, but I only discovered it within the past [...]
Frankly, I’m astonished at the results of our poll about the word processor preferences of you, the readers of this blog. Just take a look to the right to check the poll — and vote on your choice, if you already have not done so. Once you vote, you will see the results.
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I’m posting this newly uncovered group of blogs and websites about book promotion as much to gather feedback from writers, as I am to pass on information that might be useful. I recognize that these are “commercial” sites, selling services to writers seeking to promote their own books. I raise the question: [...]
Maximum PC, of all places, has uncovered some new ventures into book marketing and distribution and provides a very brief news item in its May issue, just now hitting the newsstands. The news is so fresh that it’s not even up on the magazine’s home page yet. Of course, I had to dig [...]
I’ve come across a few items on the internet that may be of interest to you, so here they are:
Gateway to Research Resources
The blog Write to Done carries a recent guest column by Clay Collins which is the best post I’ve seen anywhere about the various online options for serious research. I do tons [...]
The online Publisher’s Weekly newsletter earlier this week offered an important article looking into the recent announcement by Amazon intimating that it may only distribute print-on-demand books prepared by its subsidiary Booksurge. The implications of such a move are signficant for writers considering the self-publishing route.
The article includes reactions from the CEO of Ingram [...]
If you followed my advice of a couple posts ago — you do follow it ALWAYS, dont you? — you will already know the content of this post.
The Writer’s Technology Companion has gotten off to a soaring start. Drawing from his vast archive at the very successful Lifehack.org, his original, long-running blog, Dustin offers [...]