A Dozen of My Favorite Web 2.0 Websites
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Apple’s War on Amazon Starts Thursday
Cult of Mac
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Social Examiner
How to Create a Story
Kindle Author
Why Your Copy Isn’t Converting
CopyBlogger
Indie Authors in the Spotlight
Ken Hoss
Work Over Your Head
Ken Pressfield
One Way Novelists Have it Easy
Mystery Writing is Murder
Turning Up the Volume on Author Podcasts
Publishers Weekly
Good God! If you’re going to write time travel do your research!
I downloaded a Kindle time travel novel last night and 30 minutes into it I was so disgusted with the jarring lack of accuracy that I deleted it from my iPad. No matter that the story had a fascinating premise or that the characters were fairly well fleshed-out. The historical inaccuracies were so distracting I just couldn’t stay with the story.
Dear Author (who shall remain nameless) – - PLEASE, if you write another Civil War-era novel, research the language, the terrain, and the dialogue.
Here’s the deal. If you’ve written a time travel novel about a specific historic period, the people who are likely to buy your book are ones who already know and like the period. That means they’ve read enough about a particular place or time to easily catch glaring mistakes. No matter how good your story may be, the mistakes make it hard to: Read the rest of this article
I attended a writing seminar many years ago and the speaker – - who was pontificating from his “I am great” platform – - told the gathering that the use of a semicolon would guarantee a rejection slip. As a long-time semicolon user (and lover), his proclamation scared the bejeezus out of me. Fortunately, the fright was temporary.
For the grammar heathens among us, according to Wikipedia:
Ben Jonson was the first notable English writer to use it systematically. The modern uses of the semicolon Read the rest of this article
Did you catch my review of iA Writer the other day? It’s my app of choice for writing on the iPad.
Version 1.4 was just released – a free upgrade if you’re running the app. The two big changes are the support for Dropbox folders and iCloud support. Now, you can add a new Dropbox folder from directly inside iA Writer. Now you don’t have to save all your doc to the /Writer folder.
I personally don’t use the iCloud feature – honestly, it feels superfluous to me. Plus, I don’t use a MAC as my desktop, so giving someone like me this feature is a waste. However, I do sync back and forth with Dropbox all the time – so this feature is hugely appreciated.
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Do you use iA Writer? Leave a comment and let me know what you think of it. To date, it’s my favorite app for writers.
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