Software for Writers: q10
q10 is a minimalist, full-screen text editor with several special features for writers. When you run it, it takes up the whole screen (including the space usually reserved for the start bar), allowing you...
The Writer's Technology Companion
A blog about writers and their tools
q10 is a minimalist, full-screen text editor with several special features for writers. When you run it, it takes up the whole screen (including the space usually reserved for the start bar), allowing you...
So you’ve got a nice website and a blog ready and waiting to be filled — what should you write? Well, the good news and the bad news is that there’s no real limit...
I recommend you get a domain name right away — they’re cheap, and they make you look professional. There are two trains of thought about domain names. The first says to pick something clear...
There are a number of top-quality blogging systems available today, many of them for free. There are hosted solutions like Blogger, WordPress.com, and TypePad, and there are install-it-yourself software packages like Drupal and WordPress....
A blog — a regularly updated stream of updates about you and your writing — can be an important, maybe the most important, part of a writer’s website. While your portfolio and bio are...
Do you ever do group writing exercises? Are you co-authoring a novel? Do you want to put together a compilation of essays, short stories, or poems? The web makes working with other writers and/or...
photo credit: spcummings These days, you can’t go anywhere without seeing people typing away on their laptops. In coffee houses, parks, airports, trains, college campuses — anywhere you go, people have laptops out and...
photo credit: *L*u*z*a* In honor of the launch of The Writer’s Technology Companion, I put together a huge collection of resources for writers at Lifehack.org today. Topics covered include: 10 Free Apps Every Writer...
UPDATE: This post was not meant to have been published; it was a draft I wrote before I knew what day I’d launch the site. Since it’s up, I’ll leave it up, but technically,...
A couple of posts caught my attention this week and I thought they might be helpful to the kind of person that reads The Writer’s Technology Companion. First, my friend and social media maven...