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Outlining: Zapier Review

Posted on June 30, 2016January 18, 2017 by Shevdon

Rather than repeat what has been done well elsewhere let me refer you to a good overview of outlining software for a variety of platforms, both free software and paid, over at Zapier.com: https://zapier.com/blog/best-outline-software/ Some tools are aimed more at check-lists and task management, but I recommend you take a look at the following reviews:…

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Outlining: AllMyNotes Organiser

Posted on April 18, 2016January 18, 2017 by Shevdon

Review of AllMyNotes note-taking application for Windows.

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Wattpad – Reaching the Next Generation of Readers?

Posted on September 28, 2013January 18, 2017 by Shevdon

Today I opened my email to find this message, delivered via my website: Subject: Reaching the Next Generation of Readers   Dear Mike,Please forgive the slightly skewed approach, but my name is Gavin and I work for Wattpad. We’re a community of readers and writers, and I work as part of their content team. As…

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Tools for Writing 7 – Writer’s Café

Posted on July 31, 2010January 18, 2017 by Shevdon

For this week’s post in Tools for Writing I have a guest contributor, Simon West.  Simon is a new writer, dipping his toe in the waters of fiction and non-fiction and has a long-term goal of writing for a living.  Simon has been using Writer’s Café and has volunteered to review it for us.  Over to you,…

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Tools for Writing 6 – yWriter

Posted on July 12, 2010January 18, 2017 by Shevdon

We’ll be looking at a PC tool in this part of the series, and it’s one that is squarely aimed at the structured approach.  yWriter is produced by Spacejock Software, and as you can probably tell from the developer’s moniker, is designed and built by an SF writer, Simon Haynes.  Like some other tools that…

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Tools for Writing 5 – FreeMind

Posted on July 5, 2010January 18, 2017 by Shevdon

As part of my series on tools for writing, I wanted to take a look at, not only tools for drafting and editing your work, but also tools to help you plan what you write and structure your thoughts. In this post we’ll be looking at FreeMind, a mind-mapping tool which allows you to organise…

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Tools for Writing 4 – Scrivener

Posted on June 22, 2010January 18, 2017 by Shevdon

This time in Tools for Writing, I’ll be looking at another Mac product, Scrivener from Literature and Latte. This is not freeware and costs USD $39.95 at the time of writing, but it’s still within the budget of most writers and it has advantages over the products we have been reviewing like RoughDraft 3 and…

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Sixty-One Nails
When Niall Petersen has a heart attack on the London Underground, it's not the end, it's the beginning....

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"There's been an accident - It's your daughter." This is the news no parent ever wants to hear....

Strangeness and Charm
Alex has been released from the fate awaiting her in Bedlam, but others have also escaped and they don't want freedom, they want revenge.

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Tensions run high in the courts with suspicion and doubt testing old alliances. A mongrel court is the last thing the Seventh Court want, but how far will they go to prevent it?

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