Technology for Writers Made Easy

Being a masochistic sort of person, I recently started a new websitee. I think you may find much of it relevant to your work even though it’s not an educational website as such. Called Writers’ Knowhow, its objective is to point out useful stuff to people who use technology in their writing. As the strap line puts it:

Technology for writers made easy.

There’s a series running at the moment called 13 Things You Didn’t Know About Word. 

Get the best out of the technologyProgress is slow but steady. I have discovered something that hadn’t occurred to me before: what matters is not just having the ideas and writing articles,  but establishing a rhythm of writing. When it comes to this site, for example, I tend to write either first thing in the morning, or late at night. Consequently, the website is updated virtually daily. Pressures of work have prevented my getting into a similar routine for the new website, but I am determined that it will happen.

Please do pop over and have a look, and if you think of anything you'd like me to cover, please let me know on the contact form there.

Comments

[Christina Preston]

I've been looking some more at your site which is so useful for people who are trying to produce work of publishable standard as I am.
I have two current tasks.

1. Take back our two unpublished research reports from Becta and publish them ourselves about 20,000 words each with fewer pictures
2. publish my thesis now the final corrections are done 20,000 words plus a lot of pictures

I am an Apple user and would prefer to use Pages as my word versions seem to be corrupted and keep falling over. However Pages has not autosave which I thought had gone out in the 1980s. I cannot reply on myself to save so will have to use Word.

Do you have any hints and tips that will make this final publication processs on all these documents easier? Should I strip out a new template for example. They do not seem to have any thesis templates whereas Pages has a choice of about 4- A
What I am planning is to keep all my .jpgs out until the last moment to stop it falling over and inserting them as pictures. What do you think? ny help would do.

[Terry Freedman, Educational ICT Consultant]

Look on http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/CT010152732.aspx for templates for theses (called "papers")

A template is by far the best thing. What I’d do regarding illustrations is put in placeholders for now eg <insert graph 1> and then insert the actual pics in afterwards, as jpegs like u suggest.