Tools and Trade Secrets for Writers

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Becoming A Writer

I maintain a blog at www.becoming-a-writer-seriously.com which focusses on tools and trade secrets for writers.  It is tightly focusses and emphasizes usefulness to working writers.  This lens draws together some of the best from this blog's treasure trove.

My personal website is at www.words-sounds-images.com, if you care to check it out. 

Tools and Trade Secrets for the Aspiring Writer 

Once writers get past writer's block, just how do they efficiently get their words written, how do they organize their writing time and space, how to they publish their material. This space focusses on improving one's productivity as a writers

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Books for Writers 

How to be more productive

These books do not teach you the mechanics of writing sentences or building plots. Instead, they focus on the business side of writing. I've selected only a handful of the very best resources.

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Amazon Price: $9.36 (as of 12/24/2009) Buy Now

Shortest Distance Between You and a Published Book

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How-To Video for Writers 

Fortunately, there are some very useful, easy-to-understand videos available online to help writers be more productive.

Wikis in Plain English

A short explanation of wikis and how they can be used to coordinate a group. This video comes in an unbranded "presentation quality" version that can be licensed for use in the workplace. http://www.commoncraft.com/store-item/video-wikis-plain-english

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Best of the Blogs for Writers 

There are literally thousands of blogs out there written by or aimed at writers. A handful for particularly informative.
POD-dy Mouth: THE DOORBELLS OF FLORENCE by Andrew Losowsky ...
Name: PODdy Mouth: Location: Washington, D.C., United States. I am an author and instructor, in that...
thy name is vanity.
here is (yet) another article that makes all things pod gray with the smog of vanity. (my coffee mac...
scamazon 2008 - part 5
now the writing organizations are getting involved in confronting amazon and its recent threats to t...
yet another first: authorhouse loses libel case.
attention publishamerica goofballs: authorhouse was just ordered, by a jury, to pay $230000 in damag...

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