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Halloween Costume Ideas from Famous Writers
The following infographic was created by Essay Mama. Personally, I’d choose to go as that famous best-selling fictional writer who-doesn’t-appear-to-do-much-writing, Richard Castle. Thanks to Jessica...
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#52Tech Week 43 Canva Revisit
Back in February this year, with #52Tech No. 6, I profiled Canva, a new at the time web-based graphics design app. Canva was pretty cool at the time, and since then – well, it’s gotten cooler, and more...
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#52Tech Week 44 – Draft (Webapp)
For week 44 of this #52Tech series, I take a look at Draft – an online webapp which is getting rave reviews for version control and collaboration. Note that there are several webapps and apps with...
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Terry Pratchett on old women and misleading covers — quotes for writers (and...
Hunter:Love love love this quote Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer: I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers… this is discrimination against the...
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#52Tech Week 45 Tracking Words for NaNo–WriteTrack and Others
We are now one week into NaNoWriMo, but even writers who aren’t participating in a writing marathon need to track their progress. For both sets, here are a couple of tools which offer wordcount...
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Learn Scrivener Fast
Way back in January of this year I posted about Joseph Michael’s fantastic Scrivener course, Learn Scrivener Fast, and believed in it so much that I became an affiliate. But I’m not a great marketer,...
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#52Tech Week 46 – Diagramming with Grafio (and others)
For this week’s post we’ll take a look at a fantastic diagramming and charting app on the iPad. But if you don’t work on iOS, there are some equally great webapps available which can do much of the...
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NaNo Writing through Scrivener and Aeon Timeline
Rather than update the NaNoWriMo sticky post with my current (messy) thoughts, I thought I’d share a visual look at my WIP, being written through NaNoWriMo with Scrivener for Windows and Aeon Timeline...
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#52Tech Week 47 – Writing Interactive Fiction
For my current WIP, being written through NaNoWriMo as you read this (cross fingers) I am toying around with multi-media inclusions to tell parts of the story. What it won’t be is fully interactive,...
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#52Tech Week 48 – Some Random Generators and Quick Fix Tools
Today’s Week 48 post for the #52Tech series provides 100+ random generator resources for writers in need of some inspiration or stuck for ideas to complete off their NaNoWriMo efforts. For those...
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Growing the NaNovel – Revision
I like this quote a lot lately, so made a graphic as inspiration for my own long revision sessions. I am also sharing some resource links for building your revision plans. I could certainly do with a...
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#52Tech Week 49 – 20lines
20 Lines is a writing community for writing, sharing and reading very short stories. Although called 20lines, the stories shared through the site can be up to 204 lines (approximately 3400 words)...
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#52Tech Week 50–Random Finds: MyNoise.net and Pacemaker
As I wind up my year long project of posting once a week on tools I’ve found interesting for writers, I also meet that busy zone – just out of NaNoWriMo but with some writing to complete, and of course...
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Cute Signs
The periodic table one is actually quite useful. http://www.myfunstudio.com/ Does these as download PDFs or pngs.
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#52Tech Week 51–All Time Favourite Tech for Writers
Okay, the penultimate post in the yearlong #52Tech series. The final one next week will simply provide an index post for the entire series. And this one contains a rundown of personal favourite Top 2...
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Happy Holidays, Season’s Greetings.
Featured above, Dougy is my new writing mascot. He doesn’t actually write, but there certainly could be a story written about him. It’s been a horrible year for my family, and certainly for my home...
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Oh no, not another post about New Year, new goals.
Happy new year, all. And that’s about all I’m going to say about that. With the new year comes new intentions or goals (not resolutions, because I’ve resolutely been avoiding those things). And there...
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