Build a Better Blog Project
Image by BenSpark via Flickr For writers looking to improve their blogs quickly, Darren Rowse’s “31 Days to Build a Better Blog” program might be just the thing. Rowse runs Problogger, one of the...
Category: Freebies
Software for Writers: Chapter by Chapter
In my series on Word 2007, I discussed how to use Word’s Master Documents feature. In a nutshell, Master Documents allows you to put a long document like a book together from chapters or...
A Writer’s Backup Strategy: Part 5 (Bonus!) – FileHamster
This week, we’ve talked about how to create copies of your work so that the actual loss of a file or even a computer doesn’t derail your whole career. But what about other acts...
How to Create a Newsletter Using Feedburner
Though blogs and RSS feeds are the hot thing right now, there are still lots of people who prefer good old-fashioned email newsletter. Newsletters have a number of qualities that make them preferable to...
Stay Motivated with Stikk
One piece of advice that’s floated around a lot to help people stay on track with their big projects is to set a deadline. In my experience, and probably yours, this doesn’t work very...
The Writer’s Technology Companion Philosophy: or, Why I Recommend So Much Free Software
If you’ve been reading this site for a while, you’ve probably noticed a gap in the software I cover and recommend. For the most part, the software, online services, and other material (like e-books)...
Words Count: Online Readability Analysis
You know your word count. But how do you know if your words count? Words Count is an online readability analyzer, offering you more information about your prose than you could possibly imagine. Cut...
Choose Your Own ADDventure with Protagonize
Protagonize is a collaborative fiction-writing community that allows writers to author stories separately or together, build new branches off of other writer’s stories, and rate each other’s work. The twist is, the stories are...
Outline Edit Edit Done — From Start to Finish with KeyNote Outlining Software
When I write articles, I use a process I call “Outline Expand Expand Done” — I write an outline, expand it a bit, expand it some more (paying attention to how pieces fit together),...
Write Your Movie on the Web with PlotBot
PlotBot is a new free web application geared towards screenwriters. Because it’s on the web, you can log in and work on your screenplay anywhere you have access to a computer. Better yet, PlotBot...
