5-THE BUSINESS OF WRITING
Your Data and Devices: An Introduction
Over the weekend, the major blog Lifehacker, with hundreds of thousands of readers, issued an alarming post “Avoid Laptop Seizure On International Trips.” The post has prompted dozens and dozens of comments, some detailing strategies to follow, others decrying the policy.
As a writer with practical concerns, I take a somewhat different tack. I […]
Sell Your Books By Widget — Plus A Free e-Book
Published author JA Konrath has uncovered a new way to sell his books via his blog and website: specialized widgets. He gives us step-by-step direction about how to do the same. It’s easy — and it’s free.
Even if widgets aren’t your thing, Konrath’s blog A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing may be. […]
Writing Travellers: A Ground-Floor Opportunity for Writers
Now here’s a fasinating idea: a collaborative travel guide, growing out of the emerging interactive Web 2.0 and wiki technology. That’s what I have just uncovered at Writing Travellers, a new website in beta development.
Conceived by Ferdinand Harmsen and Bart van Slobbe, who are located in Amsterdam and New Delhi, this new project, […]
Free software tools, WD review, brainstorming with MaxThink, cypberjournalism and more
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 […]
E-Book Revolution Spreads Out
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 […]
Annual Writing Software Review in Writer’s Digest
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 […]
Exploring PDF
I’m still on the road, running around Europe in search of more documentation for my history project. But, of course, this blog must be fed as well.
Readers will remember that some weeks back I discovered Jonathan’s Tool Bar and Grill blog, which covers computer utlilities, as well as Linux software. While I love it myself […]
Crash Benefits, part 3: Know even more about your system
In my last post, I recommended keeping all registration information regarding your downloaded software in a “Reference” folder in a web-based email program and in the program SoftCAT. Here are two more ways to gather the essential information you will wish to have at hand in the event of a hard disk crash.
At the […]
Crash Benefits, part 2: What’s On Your Computer
I’ve already written about some new lessons I’ve learned from my recent hard disk crash regarding backup procedures. There were other lessons.
As I scrambled to gather essential information from my dying hard disk that would help me set up a new one, I realized how important it is to know the details of your […]
Podcasting with Audacity
My good friend Dustin Wax over at The Writer’s Technology Companion has recently completed an informative 5-part series on Podcasting. It’s worth checking out: podcasting can be a useful approach to sharing and marketing your writing.
Dustin points to the freeware Audacity as a principal tool. I agree wholeheartedly. The software deserves […]
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