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11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King
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John Carter of Mars Series by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Recent books:
- The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
- Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
- The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
- Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1 by Mark Twain
- Matter (Culture) by Iain M. Banks
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NaNoWriMo Resources: 3 Books
Over the years I’ve collected a bunch of writing books. Here are three that I’ve used extensively and am planning on using again this year for NaNoWriMo:
WordPress Plugins for Novelists
Image via Wikipedia If you’re like me, you’ve decided to write a blog to share your writing with the world. You thought your writing would stand on its own, and readers would flock to your website, grateful that you decided to share your awesomeness with everyone. Then, reality sets in. Developing content and working on your “Real” writing become chores, not fun. Even worse, you realize that although you’ve trained yourself to develop plots and realistic characters, to edit yourself …
Free Novel Writing Application: Brainstorm with Mind42
Mind 42 is an intuitive mind mapping solution that allows you to collaborate and share your ideas online. It also integrates nicely with the open source Freemind software, allowing you to import and export from your desktop.
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Tagged Brainstorming, FreeMind, Knowledge Creation, Knowledge management, Mind map, Mind Mapping, open source
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Free Novel Writing Software: yWriter Demo
yWriter is a popular free word processor designed from the ground up for novelists. It’s an open-ended organizer and test processor that let’s the author do as much or as little pre-writing as they feel like, then organizes your writing into discreet scenes. It will allow you to track your progress, and gives you both tabular and graphic reports. Finally, after you’ve polished your novel, it will allow you to export your manuscript for final formatting in a more full …
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Tagged Arts, Mac OS, Operating Systems, Word processor, Writers Resources, Writing, yWriter
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Free Novel Writing Software: Open Office, Templates and Extensions
Here’s a quick 5 minute video showing how I use the Extensions and Templates for Open Office Writer:
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Tagged Arts, Novel Writing Software, OpenOffice.org, Podcast, video, Writers Resources, Youtube
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