Tools of Inspiration
Image by misfitgirl via Flickr We writers have many tools. We have our words, the nouns and verbs and adjectives and even the woefully despised adverbs, poor dears. We have our talent, our rare gift…
Author: Dustin Wax
How to Write Fast
Image by this is your brain on lithium via Flickr I’m going to write this post in 20 minutes. Being able to write fast is a crucial skill for writers of every stripe,…
Tag Your Writing Tweets with #Writing and #Editing
Image via CrunchBase Taken as a whole, Twitter can seem like one gigantic mass of everyday tedium (“Eating cheese again, yum!”), TMI (“I’m having sex. Right. Now!), and occasionally useful snippets of information (“THere…
Innovative Collaboration/Comparison with TextFlow
Image via CrunchBase Whenever you work with other people on a document, whether they’re co-writers contributing changes and comments, editors recommending revisions, or even yourself adding and cutting a work for reprint or re-pitching,…
Do You Tweet?
Image via CrunchBase Twitter is one of the most significant social media platforms to emerge in the last couple of years. If you’re not familiar with Twitter, have a look at this post where…
Keep Track of Deadlines with Deadline
I’m on a quest for the perfect deadline reminder application.What I want is a simple online app that I can enter the due dates of my various writing assignments and projects into, and that…
Writing on Your iPhone: One Novelist’s Story
Image via Wikipedia While researching an article about iPhones, I was contacted by Cheryl Kaye Tardif, best-selling author of numerous novels such as Whale Song. Tardif has embarked on a new project: writing a…
Welcome to 2009!
Image by ilmungo via Flickr One of the profound ironies about writing a site about being a productive, efficient writer is that the better I am at what I write about, the less time…
A Little Proofreading Humor
As a writer, I find this hilarious. As a professor, I find it so utterly depressing that it comes around the other side to funny again. Enjoy! via videosift.com
Congratulations NaNoWriMo Participants
Image via Wikipedia Congratulations to everyone who participated in National Novel Writing Month! With the end of November, you are either looking with glee at a 50000-word (or more) manuscript or sadly facing the…
