April 2, 2010
As a freelance writer, I need a way to create, organize, and keep notes, sources, and even snippets of text or dialog, as well as article ideas. Around my home office, I have literally a hundred or more notebooks jammed with scribbles, ideas, magazine clippings, and newspaper articles. While opening up one of those notebooks [...]
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August 7, 2009
Does the Firefox plug-in still have what it takes to serve the professional writer?
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July 30, 2009
Is it acceptable for a professional writer to cite Wikipedia as a source? Sometimes, but sometimes not.
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May 16, 2009
Just days after I went through the trouble of pointing everyone to d8search as a way to get improved date searching out of Google search results, Google updated the features they offer in their own native search. The homepage of Google search is the same as ever with one minor, and by minor I mean [...]
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May 13, 2009
As a writer, you will inevitably need to do some research for a topic or article you are writing. Often, that research will need to be reasonably current, especially when it comes to topics like technology, finance, news, and legal issues. Google offers some date search functionality in its “Advanced Search” menu, allowing users to [...]
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