Business of Writing
You Need An Author Website.
I budget for one writers conference each year and, every time I attend a conference, I am taken aback by the number of authors who […]
Writing and Technology
Writing and Technology
Tools for Writers: Evernote (Part 3)
How to use Evernote to organize your research and your writing projects: structuring your research, online research, managing your writing projects, including templates, checklists, and collaboration tools within Evernote. […]
Writing and Technology
Tools for Writers: Evernote (Part 2)
In Part One of this series of posts about Evernote, we looked at what Evernote is and what it does. Today, we’ll be looking at […]
Writing and Technology
Tools for Writers: Evernote (Part 1)
Evernote is one of my favorite applications, whether on my laptop, phone, tablet, or on the Web. It has innumerable features, which can be expanded via […]
Writing and Technology
Overcoming Tech Fears: A Personal Voyage of Discovery (Part 2)
Once we create a website, the webby cave lights up with the flashlight of our writer’s resume. Stake that identification flag on our own little piece of the web […]
Writing and Technology
Overcoming Tech Fears: A Personal Voyage of Discovery (Part 1)
Navigating the web and the dark void of the Internet terrified me. Like hiking through a cave with spider webs brushing my face. I wasn’t a web explorer, I was a muralist […]
Self-Publishing
How to Convert Your Manuscript from Word to Kindle Format in 5 Easy Steps (Part 3)
Last time, in part 2 of this series, we covered Steps 1-3 of the 5 steps, which discussed styling, headers and footers, and pagination. This […]
Self-Publishing
How to Convert Your Manuscript from Word to Kindle Format in 5 Easy Steps (Part 2)
In the first part of this series, we looked at some initial considerations when preparing a manuscript for Kindle. Today, we’ll be covering Steps 1-3 […]
Self-Publishing
How to Convert Your Manuscript from Word to Kindle Format in 5 Easy Steps (Part 1)
You’ve finished your wonderful manuscript in Word, complete with front matter and back matter. You may even have already uploaded the manuscript to CreateSpace … […]
Writing and Technology
Where to Put Those Words: Scrivener vs. Word
Where is the best place to write your masterpiece? There is the old standby Microsoft Word, and there are great programs like Scrivener. What should […]