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#52Tech Week 32–Story Starters
I personally don’t tend to use a lot of writing prompt generators. At this moment in my writing career I have a problem with having too many ideas to pursue. But prompts are part of many writer’s daily...
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#E4W–Publish a Book from Evernote through Fastpencil
At the end of July Evernote and Fastpencil announced a partnership which will allow Evernote users to publish their note content to a PDF or ebook ready for distribution. Fastpencil “This is an...
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Girl Roles
With an eleven year old daughter, I’m more and more mindful of writing good strong girl role models.
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#52Tech Week 33–Outline Lists with Workflowy
For week 33 of the #52Tech series, Workflowy is highlighted. Firstoff – I’m not a huge fan of Workflowy anymore. Some other reviewers have loved it, others hated it. Workflowy – or any outliner – is a...
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#52Tech Week 34–Outlining with Fargo
Last week I profiled one web-based outliner, Workflowy. For week 34 of the #52Tech series, Fargo and some other alternative webapp outliners are highlighted. What is Fargo? Not the movie. The webapp...
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#52Tech Week 35 – Typewriter Apps
Anyone watching the net lately will be well aware of Tom Hank’s typewriter app hitting the iOS appstore and smashing records for the productivity and overall categories. I’ve left it a couple of weeks...
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#52Tech Week 36–Calibre 2.0
If you write in MS Word, and deal with e-publishing, or collect ebooks, you most probably are aware of the free app, Calibre. With Calibre 2.0 recently released there’s even more of a reason to have...
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Outbreak
Great video from the UK. Watch all the way to see who did it. Great use of storytelling.
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Hobby or Work? What’s Writing for You? #RUOKDay
A couple of weeks back I went through one of those bleak times every writer occasionally suffers through… Long deep thoughts of self-doubt, questions towards whether I would ever get past a long haul...
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#52Tech Week 37–Random Apps of Kindness, Part 1
For this week’s #52Tech post, I’ve collected a few reference type webapps and/or posts which are bookmarkable for many writers. This listing is kept short. More will be detailed in Part 2 next week....
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#52Tech Week 38–Random Apps of Kindness, Part 2
Here is another list of writing-helpful webapps and sites. Last week you will find more randomness. Writing Tools WPS Writer (formerly Kingsoft) – if you’re a Windows or Linux user looking for an...
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Thank You, Mickey Moo
Mickey, our companion dog and writing muse, died suddenly on Saturday night. He has left a huge hole in our little family, and an even larger one in my writing. We mourn his loss still, and it’s been a...
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#52Tech Week 39 Hiveword and Charahub
The loss of my writing mascot Mickey this week has left me unable to function totally in writing, which is difficult given my intentions to participate in NaNoWriMo again this year. But at some stage...
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For NaNo, Creative Plotting Techniques
It's October! That means prep time for NaNoWriMo. It also means every blog and his dog is mentioning NaNo, it seems. So why fight the trend, here's another. I have an interesting job of NaNo this...
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#52Tech Week 40 – Life in the Cloud
Most writers are using (possibly abusing) cloud storage. Many of us may be unaware of just how many of our apps and routine digital lives make use of cloud storage, and with the whole heartbleed and...
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Announcing 3 Things
Thing 1 This is Douglas. He’s not a replacement for Mickey, he’s very different. And tiny. And not toilet trained. And active, and annoying, and potentially – in the long run – a writing companion and...
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NaNoWriMo Writing Tools StoryBundle
StoryBundle offers themed packages of Indie books for a reader-defined payment of as little as $4 (an average of $10). I’ve written about StoryBundle packages several times previously, including this...
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#52Tech Week 41 – Writing Playlists on 8Tracks
Whoops. Due to lack of consistent sleep (blame the puppy) I completely missed posting a 52Tech item last week. So here it is, belatedly. I’m only recently filling my own writing times with music....
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#52Tech Week 42 Soundtracks for Books with Booktrack
Last week I profiled 8Tracks — an internet radio station full of writing playlists. But playlists are, and have been for many decades, a big thing for many people. Nowadays with the freedom of...
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New Look for November
Just for the month, to celebrate NaNoWriMo and join in with my main character, this site has gone purple. If you’re doing NaNo this year, what’s your colour palette?
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