Tools and Trade Secrets for Aspiring Writers
Free Download A Day is another website that seeks out and offers up free software. It’s name is not entirely accurate. Some of thw software offered remains on the site for days for free. Currently it lists several tools that might interest writers. We’ve mentioned EverNote before — many people swear […]
The free office suite Open Office will soon hurl a major challenge at Microsoft Office with its major upgrade from version 2.4 to 3.0 sometime this September. There will be some new features that will appeal especially to writers of longer work. I just came across a report with intriguing screenshots taken from […]
Blog reader Jeremy Osborne at his blog Discover Fire has put together an extensive, in depth tutorial about harnessing open-source software Subversion to keep track of evolving versions of one’s novel. I’ve waited to bring it to everyone’s attention until the entire series was done and became easily available.
Now you can see the complete […]
Evidence of the spreading e-book revolution is everywhere — if you look for it.
A senior executive at a top-five New York publisher — a friend of mine — has just completed her leave-of-absence to live out her dream year living in Florence, Italy. She told me a couple of weeks ago that she […]
If all has gone according to plan, I should be back to my home base in Mexico any day now. That means, of course, assured full internet access, and perhaps more timely posts. In the meantime, to keep everyone entertained, I’ve set up some post-dated items that have appeared “automatically” as I’ve been travelling. This […]
I know — I talk about time a lot. It’s, in my view, one of the biggest challenges for a writer. I feel the press of time especially.
I’ve looked at quite a number of free and low-cost time tracking programs. And I have a review or two of my own in the […]
If you are the least bit open to experimenting with a new word processor, jump on this opportunity IMMEDIATELY. Giveaway of the Day has arranged — for TODAY ONLY — a free download of a remarkable word processor designed especially for writers: Liquid Story Binder XE.
At the very least, visit the giveaway website. […]
One of the Writer’s Digest features I most look forward to each year in the annual review of software for writers. This year’s review is now available in the August issue, currently on newsstands. I presume it will eventually make it onto the magazine’s website, but it’s not yet there.
This year the review is written […]
Google has compiled a list of 107 blogs for writers that generate enough readership and activity to deserve its attention. That’s a lot of blogs, and they certainly cover the waterfront of writing. Each blog listing carries a short line, generated by Google, about the blog’s content. If you are thinking about establishing a blog related to […]
I’m glad I got up early today to review my inbox. I discovered there two organizational tools that you may wish to investigate. Better still, if you act today, you can get one of them for free and the other at a substantial discount.
I’ve never heard of Watership Planner before. At first […]