3-Collecting Ideas
ALERT: Journal Software at 51 percent discount — Friday only
As many of you know, I follow the discount offerings at Bit du Jour and from time to time pass on to you advance notice about one-day deals of interest to writers.
This week the website offers The Journal, at $19.95, discounted from the normal cost of $39.95. You can download it immediately for evaluation, but […]
Writing The Old-Fashioned Way
Over at D*I*Y Planner, a community site whose focus is on paper-based productivity, a guest blogger and NaNoWriMo winner has submitted an interesting article for the pen-and-paper set. He described how the venerable Cornell Notes system can be harnessed to write novels, with no software or computer getting in the way.
This site is full of […]
Writing Workhorse: The Muscle of KeyNote Remains Strong
BLOGGER’S NOTE: I’ve been holding back a post about one of my most important writing tools, which has been sitting in draft form until a lull in posts would call it forward. Now that I’ve recovered from an illness that wiped me out for a few days, I’ve called up the draft to […]
Bits and Pieces Add-on
An add-on to yesterday’s tidbits…
Essential Online Tools For Journalists — Discussion at the FaceBook group E-Media Tidbits led me to this useful post at Reportr.net.
I’m intrigued by the emphasis on RSS feeds and news aggregators among these tools. Many writers I talk to do not know much about these tools, but I find this […]
I’m Counting
It’s ironic: a couple of months ago, I uploaded a post entitled “Who’s Counting?”. Little did I know that within weeks it would be me doing the counting.
Las Monday I sent off a succinct query letter to a well-known writers’ magazine proposing a feature article, already written at 1660 words. A reply arrived […]
Daily Diary: A useful, customizable tool for writers
Blog reader Michael Downend passed on a reference to a free diary program — iDailyDiary by Splinterware — thinking I might find it of interest. I’ve looked at it closely, even used it now for a month. It is indeed useful, especially if one takes advantage of the tab feature.
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Better Than A Shoe Box: Outliner Program Overview
Writers are notorious for scribbling on napkins, sticking Post-It notes all over the place, tossing magazine clippings into boxes – a variety of methods of collecting and saving ideas and information. None of them are particularly effective: ideas too often get lost, information is unlikely to be systematically drawn together into useable form.
There’s a better […]
Better Than A Shoebox: Outliners and Information Managers
Where do the unpredictable ideas that flow from your brain go? Into sticky notes? File boxes? Stacks of note paper? Maybe into the void, lost forever?
There are many software programs that can gather and organize this disjointed clatter of ideas and information. In my own experience, I’ve found that casting ideas into outlines, sometimes over […]
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