I do most of my writing on a computer. Most of it. A pen and paper still creeps in, from time-to-time. What follows is a broad selection of recommended tools and services which work for me – and might just work for you, too.
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Scrivener is the essential tool for novelists, becoming increasingly useful as your project grows in length and complexity. It’s available on Mac and PC, though awkwardly in slightly different versions, but there’s no ChromeOS version or equivalent. This is hardly a surprise, of course – it is ChromeOS, after all – but as I flit between a Windows desktop PC and a super lightweight Chromebook I needed a way to maintain my Scrivener workflow when out and about. (more…)
I wasn’t planning on writing this for a while. It was on my Trello list of ‘articles to write at some point’ but it got bumped up this evening after I encountered a frantic writer on Facebook who had just lost three months of work and had no backup. Ouch. I don’t want anybody to suffer the crippling anxiety of losing work, so here we are. (more…)
I wrote to Charles Clarke MP today, regarding the Digital Economy Bill. You might have heard me mention that a few times over the last few weeks. If you want to write to your MP, you can do so really easily by clicking here to go to the 38Degrees website. Read more
Further to the misguided, disastrous amendments to the Digital Economy Bill brought in earlier in the week, Thursday saw the situation – somehow – get even worse, with the attempt to outlaw ‘web lockers’ such as YounSendIt and Dropbox. Cory Doctorow explains it here. Web lockers enable people to upload Read more