Please allow me to wax geeky for just a moment about a tool I think writers may find extremely useful. Juice, a new plug-in for Firefox from Linkool Labs, puts a sidebar on your browser. Highlight any bit of text, drag-and-drop it on the sidebar, and a tabbed Google search (for web, images, news, videos, [...]
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“instant gratification takes too long!”* – some notes on electronic publishing
September 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized, general, publishing
“Sex with Ghosts” (Strange Horizons, August 2008) was my first fiction sale and my first appearance in a web-only magazine, but not the first time I’d been published. Prior to that, I’d had several things published in print: poems, a review, and an author interview in literary journals and magazines, a nonfiction “how to research [...]
Tags: publishing·reader response·web
word count tool from the beta site Writertopia
June 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Writertopia, a work in progress that promises to be a home on the web for writers, has created a free tool to help you display your writing progress visually on a blog or web site. Here’s a sample: They have a cheesier cartoon version of the meter as well, but I’m frankly a bit disturbed [...]
Tags: award·Cambell·contest·meter·progress·science fiction·tools·web·writertopia
