Juiced On Writing
I want to write. I want to make a living writing - fiction, and non-fiction. And I want to share all the writing resources I find. This is my writing blog. Simple as that.

Seen this? Write or Die! is a web-based application - the first from Dr Wicked’s Writing labs. It is based on his concept that we all, as writer’s are easily distracted by things like - oh, everything really, from writing.
With Write or Die!, you get tangible consequences with procrastination. Insert a wordcount, and time period, [...]

I’ve recently provided some articles on how I am currently using Mindjet MindManager Pro 7 for my writing project. However, MindManager has just had an upgrade to Version 8, with a whole swathe of new functionality which looks interesting from a writer’s viewpoint.

This is a quick announcement for a week, for those interested in a couple of great writing products.
Holly Lisle’s How to Think Sideways Writer’s Career Course has been opened up for new students permanently. This is a generous act from Holly’s end. Quite a few of the writing students taking her courses have lost their [...]

This is the follow-up to my own MindMapping to Prepare for a Novel article posted a week ago.  In that article I introduced you to my concept (with The Sentence) for my NaNoWriMo novel, The Pod Novel II (a working title only) and to some work I did in initiating some ideas using a mindmap [...]

Having come up with an initial idea for a potential novel for my NaNoWriMo efforts, for the last few weeks I’ve sat floundered, unable to find the motivation to delve into the novel and develop it in preparation for the actual writing effort. Last night I turned to a tool which helped me refind the [...]

To remain motivated as a writer, I also often find myself turning down the Organisation and Self-Motivation path. I LIKE organisation, as a general theory. Some of my favourite bloggers and ebooks out there deal with the whole productivity thing. As a fultime worker, I was very organised - it was one of my seats [...]

ConceptDraw MindMap 5 is currently available free. Here are the details -
(Note: I am a fan and user of the comprehensive Mindjet MindManager, so can’t give you a run-down of the features of ConceptDraw, but for those of you looking for a free mindmap creation application, I would suggest you may find this one very [...]

For several months now I’ve been using Liquid Story Binder, by Black Obelisk Software, to write and keep research content within. All my ideas and research notes are kept in this piece of software also. In fact, LSB is the program which holds my very first novel within it - written in April of [...]

Enso Words is a free application for Windows XP and Vista users. Download and install it, and Enso Words sits in your system tray, giving you some helpful functions in one click through any text.