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Samsung ML-1630: A Great Little Personal Laser Printer

This is a personal monochrome laser printer that is definitely worth having.

Avery Address Labels

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.

Keeping Organized, Part 1, To Do Lists

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 […]

Word Processors

You are going to spend a lot of time with your word processing program, so you better learn to love it.
The standard piece of software that people use is Microsoft Word. This is almost certainly what a publisher will use, whether book, online or magazine. If you want to get published make it easy on […]

Mac or Windows PC, and More

A computer is as much part of the writer’s kit today as a typewriter was for a previous generation. But what do you really need?
One of the frequent questions is Mac or PC? At one level this is a simple question to answer, at another it is not. The simple answer is that it does […]