February 3, 2012
Wordpress is a brilliant invention, and has made it possible for more and more people to have amazing websites, with beautiful themes. However, there is still the matter of the content area, which still needs to be formatted for pictures, ads and well-spaced content. With a few simple steps, you can create your very own carefully formatted content template that will appear every time you click “Add New” in Wordpress.
January 30, 2012
Apple recently introduced iBooks Author in a live presentation at the Guggenheim in New York. The software is aimed at textbook writers and publishers, but it can just as well be used for producing cookbooks, picture books, interactive fiction novels, how-to books, and the like. iBooks Author looks to be the first consumer-based e-Pub software designed for multimedia books.
January 25, 2012
OmmWriter is a writing application for Windows, Mac, and the iPad. It is based on the philosophy that in order to concentrate and be creative, we need a calm and largely distraction-free surrounding. Unfortunately, our electronic writing environments are typically riddled with distractions, be it complex program menus or random messages and alerts popping up. The result is a constant struggle for focus.
January 23, 2012
I started journal writing back in the early eighties when I was in college, but haven’t really put personal thoughts to paper in the last fifteen years. After thinking long and hard about what medium I wanted to use to keep my journal, I chose Penzu.com because it offers advantages over traditional paper notebooks and even popular blog sites like Wordpress and Tumblr.
January 19, 2012
Giving you ideas to write about is the main reason StoryTree exists. They have many topics available to help you come up with cool stuff to write about. They make it easy to get your brain flowing in a creative direction with all kinds of topics. What you, as the writer, choose to do with those topics is completely up to you, but they move you in the right direction.
January 17, 2012
When you set out to write your personal blog, you’ll realize that there are a variety of different writer’s hats that you can wear. You may want to make a personal blog with your thoughts and records of your daily life, but on the other hand, you may want to make something a little more unique than that. Today, I’ve put together a few blog types that you may or may not want to avoid.
December 21, 2011
It took me some time to wrap my head around Wolfram Alpha and the queries it uses to spout out those results. You have to dive deep into Wolfram Alpha to really exploit it to the hilt.So, if you read and write in English, come with me as we try to align a language and some computational logic to come up with data that could help us in our reading and writing.
November 25, 2011
The web has revolutionized book publishing and promotion and made it within reach of anyone with an idea. There are numerous instances where a greenhorn has made a pretty bundle by offering books for the price of a newspaper through sites which promote fresh authors and independent publishing.
November 8, 2011
Have you ever had the feeling as the end credits roll, that you could do a better job than the director or script writer? We are all closet ‘creative geniuses’, aren’t we! We live our fantasies and dreams in our minds and see them realized by someone else on celluloid. That’s why the magic of movies catches us and refuses to let go.
November 7, 2011
We all know about fanfic, and there are generally two sides to it – you either love it or you hate it. However, when I first sat down to write this thing, I asked myself, “How would I feel if someone published my articles on a Top Worst list?” However, a lot of bad fan fiction isn’t popular because it’s simply bad. A lot of the time, it’s because it’s actually kind of awkward (and funny). So load up your fan wikis, because MUO is about to destroy everything you’ve ever known about story canon.
