If you use Vellum to lay out your books, and have more than a few books under your belt, you will find one of the new features particularly helpful. I have just been updating the front and back matter for my series, following the release of the latest instalment, and the new 'reuse elements' feature has saved me a couple of hours and the potential for making mistakes. Read on to find out more!
In amongst all the various changes in the recent iOS and MacOS updates is something you might easily overlook — profiles for the Safari web browser. I'm here to tell you that if you're a creative who uses Mac to produce output and engage on social media, you absolutely should start using this feature. It's exactly what you never knew you needed.
When the headline is along the lines of "how to write better", most blogs, social media accounts, and web sites tend to focus on the actual craft of writing. That's great, because there's enough good advice out there to give anyone dozens of new ideas, but it's absolutely not the whole picture. In this article, … Continue reading Life Support for Your Own Writing
Compared to typing on my MacBook — with all of those distractions immediately to hand — I was about 30% faster at hammering out unedited words on the Freewrite Traveler.
I've just hit my word count for the day drafting a scene while sitting on a tree stump in the woods. I found my word count was about 40% higher than it is when I draft at my desk.
I've always been writing in some form or other, mostly fiction when it was my choice. It was not until 2012 that I decided — somewhat as the result of a kind of dare — to put something out commercially. The result of that was the Armada Wars science fiction universe, the first series of which will be concluded later this year, all being well.
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