Hi Rene, love the site and love your writing. What would be your advise for a writer wannabe? And maybe, some tips and tricks in the business.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Hi Rene, love the site and love your writing. What would be your advise for a writer wannabe? And maybe, some tips and tricks in the business.
Thanks!
1. Find a writing app that you love to use.
That will reduce the friction — the work factor — of writing. You will find excuses to use it and even other uses than just writing (perhaps todo lists, scrapbooks for research, etc.). That's actually part of why I asked Rene what he uses.
Ask Rene: http://forums.imore.com/ask-rene/383851-writing-apps.html#post2893430
2. Consider learning Markdown
Rene also tells how he uses Markdown. So does Federico Viticci of MacStories. In fact, so do I, and believe me, you write a lot as a grad student. That's something to think about learning too. It enables you to write in plain text in a way that can be transformed into HTML (e.g. blog posts), PDF (e.g. to print nicely), or even Word (because it's the de facto standard and professors still go by page count rather than word count).
If I may ask, what writing app do you use?