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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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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Writing a long text is hard but Scrivener makes it seem less scary. At least half the work in writing is organizing your text: Sometimes it feels like having a conversation with yourself that you end ...

More and more tech-savvy writers are embracing Scrivener, the word-processing program designed for authors. But how does Scrivener work, and what advantages does it offer over the more common ...

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 ...

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 ...