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  • Stuff for Writers

    July 30, 2009

    • While I’ve got summer writing productivity on the brain, I just wanted to share a couple things I’ve come across lately — some of which you may find useful, others of which will provide hours of procrastination.This blog post is all about WriteRoom software, which promises “distraction free writing.” (Where do we sign up?) It aims to eliminate all the extras that come along with Word ...
  • Starting with Celtx

    October 26, 2008

    • Have you been searching for a writing tool (for the NaNoWriMo's writing contest :P )  that can help you organize yourself, have great quality and at the same time be open source? Well, perhaps that tool is Celtx. It is aimed to write screenplays, and a lot of other stuff. However, you can use it in many ways, it is up to your creativity. It combines full-feature scriptwriting with pre-production ...
  • New tools for publishing: a fairy tale on Issuu

    June 1, 2008

    • When I started out in the book business, publishing meant a serious investment of money as well as time. A small press run was several thousand dollars -- simply printing a book or two wasn't feasible without enormous cost (set-up for 1 book or for 1,000 books on a large press takes the same amount of work). Of course, today, you can experiment with a small runs via tools like Lulu. Even more ...