Sorry about the long hiatus. I'm still battling some kind of cold or flu that is knocking me on my butt and trying to edit my 2012 NaNoWriMo novel into an acceptable entry for the Amazon contest (ABNA ( Read more... )

I only posted once in March.  That's about the worst month since I got serious about blogging.  The good news is that I've been writing or at least editing most of that time.  For the last couple of months I've been trying to get a couple of novels ready to send off.  I've been averaging about 5000 words edited per day pretty much every day so far ( Read more... )

Here are some pieces of software I've been trying out to increase my productivity as a writer. Those of you who did NanoWriMo may already be familiar with them.

YWriter: A free text-editor/novel writing toolkit.  It helps a writer organize and rearrange scenes, do character worksheets etc.  It is sometimes compared to the Mac-only Scrivener.  It is ( Read more... )