Drawing the Line
2 Hours + 2 Hours is Not Equal to 4 Hours
A great quote from Stephenson’s “Why I am a Bad Correspondent” — why writing is hard work requiring long, uninterrupted spans of time: Writing novels is hard, and requires vast, unbroken slabs of time. Four q[...]
Using a Spreadsheet to Track Submissions
WritersTechnology.com issues the second in a series on The simplest way to track submissions is using a spreadsheet program like Excel. You could also use an online spreadsheet like Google Docs. Create a new spreadsheet[...]
Writing Full-Screen in Google Documents
Read below to learn about gDarkRoom — a Google Documents tweak tailored to provide a full-screen writing console with these features: Full-screen editing usable from any computer Automatic backups of your document[...]
2008 Evangelical Book of the Year
The winner fo the 2008 Evangelical Book of the Year– Is not a book. For the first time in the awards’ 30-year history, top honors go to an audio Bible —- The Word of Promise, a 21-hour New Testament read by[...]
Updated Tools for Power Writers
OpenOffice.org’s excellent software suite has now release version 2.4. This is available from OpenOffice.org, or get a portable version for toting around on a USB drive or to use on locked-down worked computers. O[...]
OpenOffice.org 2 Google Docs
The OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs extension imports documents from Google Docs and Spreadsheets to OpenOffice.org and exports from OO.org to GDocs so you can work with your docs both online and offline. Works onWindows/Mac/L[...]
One Man, One Novel, Thirty Days….
Well, it’s about to begin. Why do people run in a marathon? It’s the competition — and the encouragement. November 1 begins the National Novel Writer’s Month, where thousands of aspiring writer[...]
Free Novel Writing Tools for OpenOffice
Whether on Windows, Mac, or Linux, the Writer’s Tools extension adds a useful new menu to the popular, open source office suite OpenOffice.org that bakes convenient tools like Google Translate, an online dictionary[...]
To shatter the unseen heads of dragons…
I like this prayer I heard from the April 5, 2006 Pre-sanctified Liturgy. It is referred to as a “Prayer behind the Amvon”: Almighty Master, You created the universe in wisdom. By your ineffable forethought a[...]
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2 Hours + 2 Hours is Not Equal to 4 Hours
A great quote from Stephenson’s “Why I am a Bad Correspondent” — why writing is hard work requiring long, uninterrupted spans of time: Writing novels is hard, and requires vast, unbroken slabs of time. Four quiet hours is a resource that I can put to good use. Two slabs of time, each two hours long, might [...]
Boosting Productivity With a Timer
Using a timer for writing? I’m not sure if it will boost productivity, but at least you can use it to track yourself and measure your progress. With the introduction of a $10 countdown timer that one can purchase in any housewares department, we can create our own artificial deadlines that create that sense of urgency [...]
