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writing

Blogging 101: Have a Take

June 15, 2010

There’s a sports talk radio Host who will let anyone say anything on his show as long as they “have a take.”  That’s what most blogs seem to lack is a consistent take on their subject.  It’s as if the blogger wants everyone to like them, so they have no consistent take on their subject. [...]

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Blogging 101: Write the Best Post you can

June 11, 2010

When I asked others about how to attract people to my blog, the best advice I was given was to write the best posts I can.  This blog combines my own original content with commentary on other articles to which I link.  But when I asked how to do that I usually get blank stares. [...]

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What is the Scene Writing Method of writing your Novel

May 7, 2010

A few people have asked me to write about this “Scene Writing Method.” I will talk about it. First off, this is something I came up with on my own. If you find someone else espousing this method, please be assured that I cam up with this on my own. Just Think of this as [...]

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Underdog plants – Bobulate

May 6, 2010

Underdog plants – Bobulate: “True citydwellers in plant format.” I read blogs outside of my main interest, especially artist blogs. Bobulate is a writer’s blog and the writer comes across interesting things that are tangential to my blog. I’ve done training Events in NYC and I can understand both its allure and its impersonal nature. [...]

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Using the Scene writing method with Scrivener

May 6, 2010

There are several ways to write your novels. For most of my life I went about using the Chapter with scenes method of writing. This was because I had a manual Typewriter, and I wrote on the paper. When the first word processors began to be available, I still used this style with them. It [...]

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Red Sweater Blog – MarsEdit 3 Is Here

May 4, 2010

Red Sweater Blog – MarsEdit 3 Is Here Well MarsEdit 3 is here. Surprise, surprise.

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Adding a Character table to Scrivener

May 4, 2010

As you may know I use Scrivener for my novels and short stories. It is a wonderful writing tool. It provide a set of tools and gets out of my way. Tehre is one thing that it does not provide that you may wish to add. If you wish at the end of this Post [...]

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A novel concept: Roll your own iBooks with ePub | E-Readers | iPhone Central | Macworld

April 23, 2010

A novel concept: Roll your own iBooks with ePub | E-Readers | iPhone Central | Macworld MacWorld says: Likewise, the forthcoming 2.0 version of popular writing tool Scrivener is also adding ePub support. I love Scrivener. It’s a tool with a lot of things under the hood that gets out of your way. The programmer [...]

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