How Not To Write

Do you ever dream of that perfect game night? When you and four of your closest writer friends sit down to play a game of Scrabble or Boggle or maybe Huggermugger? Huggermugger? Alright, I might be showing my age (and eccentricity) with Huggermugger, but I love word games! If you follow me on Twitter, you [...]

WriteChain, my word count tracking tool for writers, is now available in the iPhone app store!! Woo hoo! Here’s a screenshot of WriteChain ready to go! Get WriteChain on iTunes! If you visit the link above, you’ll see there’s a nifty link for WriteChain support and information. That link goes to this page on How [...]

A.B. England recently concluded a three-part series on writing methods called, “Searching for a Method to Madness.” The essays were thought provoking and inspiring. Here are links to all three parts: 1, 2,3. Image credit: Matthieu (flickr) Reading her series, I found myself examining my own technique and I realized I’d actually fallen into something [...]

View larger screenshot. When I visited DarkCopy today, I found myself feeling nostalgic for green screens and line editors. Of course, DarkCopy doesn’t duplicate the unique experience of writing with a line editor. It’s actually a pared down version of WriteRoom by Hog Bay Software. Nearly every writing software package has a fullscreen mode these [...]

Waxy turned me onto this very cool site where a novel is told using Google Maps as the background. It’s really incredible even if my description is lacking… Charles Cumming’s The 21 Steps: The 21 Steps is told by following the story as it unfolds across a map of the world. Follow the trail by [...]