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Tag Archives: Arts
What Writing Sites Do You Follow?
Image by lcthulou via Flickr So is Writing a solitary profession? It doesn’t seem like it should be anymore. I mean, if your primary activity is writing, it’s easier than ever to connect with other writers and get your stuff out there, Right? So Who do you follow? Who gives you the inspiration and advice that you value? Here’s a couple of my favorite sites: Whatever- Hugo award winning John Scalzi’s site is the first one I Turn to each …
Tagged Arts, John Scalzi, Publishing, Writer, Writers Resources
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I Wanted to Believe in the X-Files, Had My Faith Tested with Battlestar, But Now They’ve Lost Me.
OK. I bought the supernatural angle since the beginning of the year. But NO MORE. God, I’ve had it with Fantasy and Sci-Fi shows that pretend to be serials but aren’t really because they’re just making it up. I blame Chris Carter. He Legitimized this kind of sloppy story telling. It’s a fraud. It’s contemptuous. And it’s dishonest from a story telling perspective- it’s not a mystery if the clues don’t mean anything. Look- We still watch Dr. Who- that’s …
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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Ray Bradbury on Writing
Just discovered Youtube.edu and found this clip of Ray Bradbury talking about writing: This covers a lot of the same ideas I wrote about previously in the best writing Advice I never listened to. Youtube.edu is a collection of lectures and speakers from many prestigious universities collected n one spot. Be prepared to waste an evening browsing: Many of the videos are over an hour long.
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Tagged Arts, Fahrenheit 451, Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, Science fiction, Writers Resources
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Writer’s Wallpapers
Here’s a short little collection of inspirational Wallpaper for writers from Photobucket: Obligatory Notebook Theme: What’s Black and White and Read all over?: Poetry: Your Wallpaper Loves You: Obligatory Sports Metaphor: For the Guys:
Tagged Arts, Online Writing, Poetry, wallpaper
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