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How should you pitch a publisher with your book proposal? Or, to look at this another way, how should you not do so? This book answers that question.
Read MoreIf you have a tonne of books, what's the best way of organising them? Here are a few suggestions.
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Read anywhere and everywhere. Photo by Pexels. CC0 licence.
How to read a book a week.
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With apologies to Edvard Munch
What could be worse than losing all of your carefully crafted work? Here are 5 ways to protect yourself against that happening.
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If you use the Notes app on an Apple device like an iPad, and wish to access your notes from an Android device, such as an HTC smartphone, here's a work-around.
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Most printers double up (or triple up) as scanners and photocopiers as well these days.
How to get a paper document into a digital (pdf) version -- and how to correct it if it comes out upside down.
Read MoreCheck the readbility of your writing with this free online tool.
Read MoreIf you use a device like a phone, laptop or netbook, here's a handy tip to help you enjoy more writing time between battery charges.
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How should you pitch a publisher with your book proposal? Or, to look at this another way, how should you not do so? This book answers that question.
Read MoreWhere can you find good photographs with which to illustrate your blog articles? This post provides the answer!
Read MoreWriters' block is just one of many writerly ills. In this book, Roy Peter Clark offers over 200 practical tips.
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Every craftsperson should work on improving their craft. So, how do you become a better writer? These are the things I’ve found to be very useful. I hope you do too.
I am not sure if displaying one’s word count is a good idea or not. On the one hand, you are publicly committing yourself to writing, because if your word count remain static then it appears to everyone that you are not doing anything. On the other hand, appearing not to be doing any writing could be quite embarrassing.
It’s a good idea to keep backups of your day-to-day documents, so it makes sense to back up your blog too. In this short series I’m looking at ways to do that. Last time I covered how to back up your blog if you use Blogger, in the article Backing up your Blogger blog. Today, I’ll take you through the process of backing up a blog if you use Wordpress.
What can be worse than losing your beautifully-crafted prose that you’ve published as blog posts? In this short series I’m looking at how you you can try to guard against the inconceivable happening. Today, I’m looking at Blogger. If you have a blog using the Blogger platform, then here’s how to back it up.The word “paranoid” is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as
“exhibiting unnecessary or extreme fear; characterized by unreasonable or excessive suspicion of others.”
Well, you know the old joke: Just because you're paranoid i doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you!
In a similar sort of way, I don’t think there is anything “unreasonable” in being paranoid about losing the content on your website.
So, you’d like to use a handwriting font on your website or blog? It’s pretty easy, but you ought to think about the impression you want to create. And perhaps use it sparingly, unlke in this article.
If you have the occasional desktop publishing to do, or if you only require a sort of limited desktop publisher or simply don’t have the time to learn a whole new program, Word will do fine. But, to borrow from Clint Eastwood, a program’s got to know its limitations. In the article Using Word for desktop publishing, I noted that text boxes are good for enabling you to place text anywhere. Furthermore, you can link text boxes, so that if text outgrows its text box, you can make it flow on to another one.
The biggest problem facing the would-be writer is getting commissions. I think we all know what it’s like to receive rejection slips. Some of us could even paper our walls with them. The second biggest problem is how to organise yourself to not miss a deadline once you do start to get commissions. The best way, I’ve found, is to use a spreadsheet.
