Tools and Trade Secrets for Aspiring Writers
This coming Thursday, Bits du Jour will be offering a 43 percent discount on an interesting backup and versioning software, CascadePoint.
I’ve discussed backup strategy before — those posts are here. One of the unresolved topics during previous discussion was how to archive past versions of your documents. Keeping these past versions can be incredibly important. [...]
After weeks of travelling and tending to pressing matters upon my return home, I finally found some time for browsing — and I’ve come up with some useful tidbits for writers.
55 Top Reference Websites — I’ve bookmarked this most helpful directory at eBizMBA. It was written for university students now that research paper time [...]
Standord University offers several writing courses online, allowing anyone, anywhere to participate. Enrollment in each course is limited to 15.
The next round of courses begin on 25 June, with one “class” a week, and continues for 8 weeks. Most of the work can be done at the student’s convenience, taking about 5-8 hours [...]
Continuing our discussion about Back Up Strategies, Matt Jadud has written a follow up posting at Sub Ubi. It is, I think, the best and clearest description of a back up routine that I’ve read anywhere.
If you care about your data, you simply MUST READ his commentary:Â it’s concise, clear and compelling.
THEN you [...]
Matthew Jadud at Sub Ubi Blog has responded to my query regarding writers and their computing habits with an in-depth discussion of back-up strategies for writers.
It’s a shame we did not get into this discussion a few weeks earlier. I learned early this week that a good friend, a published writer with two books [...]
Tackling a book project entailing massive research is a daunting task. Yet it sometimes yields best-selling books. Just look at David McCullough’s 1776, Stephen Ambrose’s Undaunted Courage and Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower and In the Heart of the Sea, all New York Times best-sellers in recent years, all pulling together an amazing amount of [...]
For writers engaging in research that must be cited, footnoted, or included in a bibliography, face a bewildering array of citation styles:Â the Modern Language Association [MLA], American Psychological Association [APA], Chicago Style Manual and others.
For free guidance, check out Citation Styles Online:
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html
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Writers can draw upon an interesting array of software and internet tools to help them develop storylines, conduct research and save your work. We will gather that information in this section.
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