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Planning Out a New Novel Using Graphical Tools – Mindmaps, Image Boards, Web and Second Life

28. April 2009

I’ve been working on planning out my latest novel over the last few days. This is a novel which for some time has been unable to be planned – in that it just doesn’t seem to ‘want’ any kind of plan or preparation to go down on paper. (In writing, at least). I got wise, [...]

Note Keeping Software for Writers [Escaped]

26. March 2009

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Note Keeping Software for Writers [Escaped]

Escaped From The Ultimate Guide for Writers (free to download from this site), I am publishing the software I consider would make good note keepers (from several sections within the UG4W e-book). I have also added some new software I’ve discovered since which will be included in the next edition of The Ultimate Guide for [...]

Steeping My Next Novel (The Art of Research for the Fiction Writer)

16. March 2009

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Every good tea drinker knows there is a fine art to making a cup of tea for somebody. Tea needs to ‘steep’ just as a fine wine needs to sit around in a cask for a number of years. If I were given the choice between making coffee or tea for somebody, I would choose [...]

Can You Use Colour to Influence Your Writing?

11. February 2009

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Can You Use Colour to Influence Your Writing?

Via the Wright Creativity Blog, I was led to read an article at WebMD which suggests that certain findings have been found towards some colours effecting our creativity, equally applicable towards writing I’m sure. I decided this was worth further investigation.

5 on Writing (5)

10. February 2009

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The continuation of an occasional series where I select five posts, news items or sites I find interesting. This time, I have a social media and productivity theme running through my selections with a post on blogging and writing for the web, two containing mindmapping – including a writing course – and three concerning social [...]

Social Notworking, with AlertThingy

1. February 2009

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On Friday last week, I allowed myself to spend the entire day social notworking. Note: the term, “social notworking” is earmarked as one of the internet phrases to watch out for this year. And it certainly indicates something towards the intense distraction factor that the internet and social networking services offers to anyone who is [...]

Mindsweeping and Weekly Reviews

27. January 2009

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The Mindjet Blog has just featured an excellent post by Michael Deutch, in which he shows us how he’s developed two mindmapping organisation maps based on David Allen’s Getting Things Done. Michael’s two mindmaps, which he shares in MindManager format, are called - Mind Sweep – a mindmap designed to basically brain-dump everything going through [...]

The Writer’s Notebook – On An iPhone

16. January 2009

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In a recent article I gave you the run-down on how I’ve set out my own group of Writing Notebooks, including an organisational approach towards finding stuff I’ve scribbled in them. In that article I readily admitted that I wasn’t one to normally walk around with – or be near – a real-life notebook when [...]

A Writer’s Notebook

8. January 2009

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Not to be confused with a journal – which I tend to keep electronically – I have a series of physical writing notebooks. And a strange but simple system of colour-coding to let me have at least a small chance of finding that interesting idea I know I wrote down a few months ago, or [...]

Free E-Learning Ebooks

5. September 2008

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The ZaidLearn blogsite is giving away a free PDF directory for free e-learning ebooks, directed at the Net Generation (as against the Next Generation) of online learners. Zaid Ali Alsagoff has published this ebook via the Open Source Books section of the Internet Archive, where you can view the PDF online, or download it. This [...]

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Planning Out a New Novel Using Graphical Tools – Mindmaps, Image Boards, Web and Second Life

Note Keeping Software for Writers [Escaped]

Steeping My Next Novel (The Art of Research for the Fiction Writer)

Can You Use Colour to Influence Your Writing?

5 on Writing (5)

Social Notworking, with AlertThingy

Mindsweeping and Weekly Reviews

The Writer’s Notebook – On An iPhone

A Writer’s Notebook

Free E-Learning Ebooks

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