It’s November 1, and that means–yup! NaNoWriMo is upon us.
We’ve posted here before about various tools that can help you in your mad writing binge–see below–but this year, we wanted to share a techie tip for distraction-free writing that’s easy and free. Did you know that Google Docs can provide a [...]
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As we sit down to hearty meals today, or maybe just another Thursday dinner if you’re in India or England, I’ve also got the [...]
Much has been said about what technology is doing to literature from the reading side. But what can technology do for those on the writing side?
Several programs have recently been released to make the writer’s difficult task easier—or at least more manageable. Here’s a roundup, just in time for the start of [...]
For those of you keeping count, there are 2 more weeks until the start of NaNoWriMo.
But why stop at just writing a novel in November? Writer Ian Healy has some ideas for other NaNo-type events that—as he puts it—might just save the publishing industry. Here’s one of them:
NaNoBuyMo
Acquiring editors for publishers [...]
As Gwen announced last week, it’s NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), the annual challenge to write a 175-page (50,000 word) novel during the month of November. How many of you are taking part? We have at least one FWR editor and one contributor on the scene, and so far they’re keeping up with the wordcounts. [...]
For a few Novembers now, I’ve been dimly aware that a few thousand people around the world were doing some weird writing thing during one of the busiest months of the year. NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month. 50,000 words — a whole novel — in one month. No editing, no going back, no working on [...]
