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The second post in my weekly series on Windows & Word tips for writers is up on the FWA Saint Peterburg Writers Group blog.

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A piece of advice I read when I first started writing suggested always using short character names, especially for main characters. You’re going to have to type those names a lot, the writer said, and you don’t want to have to type Theodore repeatedly when Ted will do the trick. It seemed silly until I [...]

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Microsoft Word is my writing tool of choice. Maybe if I didn’t use it at work, I’d use… I don’t know, WordPerfect or something, but honestly, as much as Word sometimes baffles me, I like it. Rail against Microsoft all you want (and in many instances, I’ll be right there with you), but Word is [...]

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In the interest of making this blog useful to other writers rather than a merely self-indulgent waste of time (that’s what my LiveJournal is for), here’s the first in an occasional series of tips for making Microsoft Word more useful. When I’m editing my novel, I often want to mark the spot where I leave [...]

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