Programming note: It’s been awhile since we’ve had a guest blogger with us, so I am happy to announce that this Tuesday we’ll have an interview with Christina Katz, author of the Writer’s Digest book Get Known Before the Book Deal. Even better, she’s going to hang with us for 24 hours to answer questions! [...]
Routines for Writers
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27
May
Ending our month of using the Internet to help you as a writer, I want to tell you about Google Alerts. I think Google Alerts is one of the coolest things – it will help you find new web posts that you are interested in. I think I first heard of it when Shonna used [...]
25
May
Tracking Time
Posted by Stephanie Shackelford Published in Creativity, Organization, Productivity, Success Helping writers write more. That’s our vision.
In order to organize your time well, you must know where you are spending it. Every one of us has other responsibilities, many that have to be done before the writing. Or [...]
22
May
We haven’t talked much about marketing on this blog. I think that is because the three of us spend most of our designated writing time in production—we are at that initial writing-polishing-submitting stage.
Earlier this week we established that I’m the kind of person who reads an instruction manual cover to cover before getting started (thanks, [...]
20
May
My friend Catherine told me about Google Reader a few months ago, and I got hooked immediately. I don’t know all the ins and outs yet, but I’ll tell you what I know and then you can decide if you want to try it yourself.
Google Reader allows you to “subscribe” to your blogs and have [...]
18
May
Years ago I decided I wanted to create a webpage. I had no idea how to go about it. Being the computer-dependent person I am (as a result of years of living with a software designer – we had computers long before they became common), I went to [...]
15
May
Online Groups.
When I was an expectant mom I joined a Yahoo group of other expectant moms. If I ever had a question or concern, I’d post it to the group and have my answer within 24 hours. Since then I’ve joined various online groups that match my interests. My husband jokes that all knowledge [...]
13
May
I had to write last week’s post nearly a week early and totally forgot we were supposed to be talking about Internet resources! Eek! Sorry! LOL! So I’m going to make it up to you by giving you some tricks I think you can use.
I find the Internet and blogs and blogging incredibly distracting. I [...]
11
May
I hope you are not tired of my “let’s play” attitude. It seems everyone in my life at one time or another tells me to “Grow up!” at some point. Personally, I think it’s a last cause. If I haven’t lost my penchant for playing around by now, [...]
8
May
Whatever did I ever do before eBay? Spend lots of time looking through musty old books trying to find the exact piece of info I needed. But now? Zip, zip and I’ve got descriptions, pictures, and sometimes even the exact object I want in my hot little hand.
My first purchase was a diary from the [...]
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