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Describing Words - Find Adjectives to...

Added by Ross Zurowski
Updated 4 days ago

Betafish | Professional Readers, On...

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Letters of Note: C. S. Lewis on Writing

Added by Ross Zurowski
Updated 2 months ago

An interesting tool for long-form story writing. Despite the clunky "card" interface, this tool seems to do a good job at letting authors break a story down into constituent beats, reordering them to create a good flow.

What really caught my eye was the story arc feature [(starts at 1:35)](https://youtu.be/UbTFseqyZAI?t=1m34s). It lets writers visualize the ebb and flow of themes in their narrative.

Visualizing Story Arcs

Added by Ross Zurowski
Updated 3 months ago

A writing tool that deletes all your writing if you stop typing for more than a few seconds. Subscribes to the principle that you should write everything first, and then edit it later.

The Most Dangerous Writing App

Added by Ross Zurowski
Updated 4 months ago

Update: Since this post has a bigger audience than I'd anticipated, I've fixed some typos and added some details about Atom, along with short sections at the end on using Zotero with the Better BibTeX extension and fixing errors.] I recently decided to switch to plain text for my academic writing for a number of reasons.

A Plain Text Workflow for Academic...

Added by Dan B
Updated 6 months ago

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