I learned today that the landscape along US-95 south of Tonopah, Nev., is peppered with thousands of Joshua trees. Learned by seeing them. I also learned how to write a book. Learned by Googling “how ...

‘Writing a novel’ seems to be one of the default items on most people’s wish-lists. Most never start it, and most of those who start it never finish it, but if you want to make a serious attempt, ...

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If you're like most people you probably use Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Google Apps or some combination of like software at work. When you get home and want to write something you probably turn to ...

Scrivener is a name that gets tossed around a lot in writing circles, but it's not immediately clear how it's useful. Subsequently, I've avoided it for years. Then, on a whim recently, I checked it ...

If you have worked on an extended writing project—be it a novel, screenplay, memoir, or dissertation—you have likely encountered the limits of Microsoft Word . Despite continual refinement, the word ...

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While you're pinching and punching for the first of the month, don't forget today is also the first day of National Novel Writing Month, otherwise known as NaNoWriMo. To coincide with this auspicious ...

There's a reason Microsoft Word has been the go-to word processing program for the past 25 years – it's easy to use and handles basic and more advanced writing tasks smoothly. But countless ...

Software week resumes (previously here and here). OK, it may not correspond to an actual "week," but it should go through at least seven installments. This one continues the theme of how you can use a ...