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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: $10.20 (as of 11/21/2008) Buy Now

Shortest Distance Between You and a Published Book

Amazon Price: (as of 11/21/2008) Buy Now

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

We made this video because wiki web sites are easy to use, but hard to describe. We hope to turn you on to a better way to plan a camping trip, or create the next Wikipedia.

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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.
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Tom Colvin is a free-lance writer [and blues musician] who splits his time between Mexico and the Philippines.  He maintains an active blog for writers and is working on a major work of history, which takes him into historical archives in Spain, France, Britain, Canary Islands, Mexico, the Philippines and Macau.

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