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A new camera for research(0)

May 9, 2008

I seem to be due to spend a fair bit of time talking about the craft of writing this year, and one subject at these events is, inevitably, research. I do stacks of it. The most useful tool of all?…

A new camera for research

Scrivener: it just gets better and better

I wrote here back in August of how I’d moved my fiction writing to the wonderful and ridiculously inexpensive authors’ word processor Scrivener. But that was when I’d just completed the seventh Costa book, which was begun in Pages. Now…

Scrivener… at last an author’s word processor

The seventh Costa book is just about finished and will turn out to be the first novel I’ve ever produced that has never been edited in Microsoft Word. Yes, it will get turned over to the old beast at the…