Red Sweater Software is currently running a promotion on Twitter until January 1st. By casually mentioning their products in a tweet, you can win a copy of that product. I managed to win a copy of MarsEdit (which I am using to type out this blog post.) You can find more information at this post on their blog:
Thanks again Red Sweater Software!
By now, just about everybody I know has access to Google Wave, or at least, any of my friends who wanted access in the first place. With that in mind, I’ve been exploring wave to determine if it has some uses for writers. So far, I haven’t found much, but if you’re exploring the same territory, knowing how to use wave is essential.
With that in mind, I’d like to point you to Gina Trapani’s Complete Guide to Google Wave. It’s a wiki book describing how wave works. Access to it is free. More importantly, it can be updated by anybody. It will also be released as a PDF, and as a regular print book. Way to go Gina Trapani!
You can find The Complete Guide to Google Wave at http://completewaveguide.com/
Also check out Gina’s blog, Smarterware at http://www.smarterware.org She often has good tips there.
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Timeglider is a great web application that allows you to create complex timelines easily. You can find it at http://timeglider.com.
The best part: It’s free!
If you’re a writer, you know how painful it is to sit in front of the computer or your notebook and have no idea what you want to say. The frustration can end.
Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones is a great book. It’s filled with tips and exercises to get you writing. More importantly, it helps you develop a writing practice. When Goldberg uses the phrase “writing practice”, she gives it the same reverence she gives to “Buddhist practice.” And really, to her, there is no difference.
But even if you’re not a Buddhist, as a writer, you can identify with this book. I know there are plenty of books for writers out there, but as far as I’m concerned, this is really the only one you need. (Though Wild Mind, Goldberg’s sequel to Writing Down the Bones, is also excellent.)
