The proprietary software world also offers many tools for desktop publishing (DTP) from entry-level programs such as Microsoft Publisher to high-end applications including Adobe’s InDesign and FrameMaker or Quark Xpress. Adobe’s product are aimed at related but subtly different markets. InDesign is the product of choice for graphics professionals creating print materials such as flyers […]
Congratulations to Mike, who was randomly selected as the winner of the iMindMap giveaway. Mike will receive a copy of iMindMap Ultimate, a $295 value, which offers all sorts of creativity and organizational tools. To see all the entries in the contest –entrants were asked to describe where they got their ideas from, and there […]
So, you’ve gotten your text, which is surely the twenty-first century equivalent of “Common Sense”. Back in those days, you would have sent your manuscript to the typesetter for printing; nowadays, you have something just as good inside your Linux box (PDF export). But how to utilize it? A word processor, of course. OpenOffice has […]
Though she hasn’t won her first two tries at NaNoWriMo, Trisha Bartle isn’t letting that get her down – this year she’ll try her hand again, hoping that the third time really is a charm. A freelance feature and commercial writer, Bartle is also an award-winning short fiction writer. Read more about her and her work at […]
Image by churl via Flickr It’s November and for thousands of writers, that means National Novel Writing Month (or “NaNoWriMo”) a grueling exercise in creativity and self-discipline with the goal of creating a 50,000 word novel manuscript in 30 days. I’m not doing NaNoWriMo this year – I don’t have any pressing desire to write a novel […]
In honor of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), I’ll be running a series of interviews with writers who have tried their hand at the NaNoWriMo challenge before. Hopefully, their words will lend other writers advice and inspiration as they attempt the feat of creating a 50,000-word manuscript in 30 days. Our first volunteer is Catherine Hicks, […]
In the last installment, we examined how to compose and check your writing using the Linux tools txt2tags and aspell. Let’s assume that you’ve used these tools now – used them quite a lot. You now have several directories and sub-directories filled with dozens of text files. How to organize all of this text? Don’t worry, Linux has […]
It’s November, and that means National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo for short and harder to type), that wonderful time of year when writers and would-be writers throw off the bounds of sanity and commit themselves to writing a full-fledged novel in a month. And it’s not even one of the long, 31-day months! I don’t […]
