Posts Tagged ‘Writers and the Web’

There are quite a few software packages designed to help writers deal with their text in the form of blocks.  Generally, the idea is to give writers a way to create and use notes on the computer in the same way they could do with notecards and stacks of paper in the real world–only better.
The best I’ve [...]

You might want to take a look at a new tool called Tabbery if any of the following describes you:

you hate having to constantly move desktop windows out of the way to see other ones;
you sometimes wish you could save your current set-up of files, webpages, etc. for easy access;
you ever want to share your current [...]

KallOut lets you search the web from any web page, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel or Powerpoint) document or Adobe PDF.  It’s easy to use and extremely helpful. It’s free, too!
Basically, when you highlight a word or set of words, KallOut adds a little icon above the highlighting.  You click on that and it gives you [...]

Authors sometimes find it really tempting to use song lyrics in a novel or story. The words of the song are just so powerful and so right that… well, they need to be there.
If you’re considering using song lyrics in your work of fiction, you may want to come up with a back-up plan. Here [...]

For the last few months, I’ve participated in the beta testing of a site called TWINE.  As of today, it’s open to the public.  If you get a chance, check it out.
TWINE’s a great way to pull together research material from various sources.  It’s both a social networking and a web content bookmarking capability.  Even better, [...]