I just found that The Times newspaper has an online Style and Usage Guide. This is a great tool when you are writing and need a quick check. If you write on a laptop, as I do, then it is often far more convenient to go to a website than go find a book on […]
I don’t know about you, but I make use of Microsoft Office to handle my mailing lists. I use Excel to keep the actual lists and then use Word to print address labels and do mail merge. This combination works extremely well.
Writing of any type is partly an exercise in organization. You need to keep track of deadlines, research, contacts, trips, websites, characters, locations, timelines, etc. All of these activities can be well tracked on paper. But since I am a computer nerd and write directly with a word processor on my laptop, I look for […]