How to Pull Yourself Over the Hump
Image by slack12 via Flickr There comes a time in nearly every big writing project when you just can’t seem to move forward. Maybe you’ve written yourself into a corner and aren’t sure how...
The Writer's Technology Companion
NaNoWriMo Interview: Sonja Faust
Sonja Faust is a romance writer living in North Carolina. This year she’ll do NaNoWriMo for the fifth time, after completing the challenge successfully twice. She’s published two short stories, “Love in Shadow” and...
Moving to Linux: Scribus for Writers
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...
iMindMap Contest Winner!
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....
Moving to Linux: The New OpenOffice
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...
NaNoWriMo Interview: Trisha Bartle
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...
How to Achieve Your Writing Goal Every Day
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...
NaNoWriMo Interview: Catherine Hicks
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...
Moving to Linux: Working with Text (Part 2)
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...
The Writer’s Technology Companion Celebrates NaNoWriMo!
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...
