Miscellaneous Tips

December 11, 2007 by Chris · 1 Comment
Filed under: Writing Tip

As I’m learning albeit sometimes the hard way, I thought I’d share some tips and lessons I’ve learned. One of the better blogs I’ve come across lately is one of the Writer’s Digest blogs, Questions and Quandaries. How refreshing to get straight from the hip advice about the writing world, even things as mundane as whether to staple or use paper clips. Brian Klems will take your questions too.

Now speaking of the hard way, I received a painful lesson in the school of hard knocks. For some inexplicable reason, Firefox crashed and burned to a cinder on me. I was forced to reinstall it. Now I had thought that I had saved my profile, but alas, I was mistaken. No bookmarks. No passwords. No customized set-up. Start from scratch.

I have been able to get back most of the passwords and bookmarks, though heaven knows I probably had some there that I hadn’t visited in over a year. Good riddance to those. I also installed an add-on with Firefox called Bookmarks On Line. The add-on synchronizes my bookmarks automatically. Peace of mind at last!

Now for the truly miscellaneous stuff. From all my blogging, I’ve noticed several links I tend to use a lot. There are sites like my paintings, my own blog, etc. Rather than having to enter the code all the time, I’ve created a NotePad text file with all those bits of code ready to copy and paste. Saves lots of time.

Going in another direction, when spell checking your documents, don’t forget that Add button. Add the names of your characters, the setting, any scientific/reference type of words. Might have to add the swear words too. That way, you are spelling your own characters’ names properly. Speaking of characters, time I get back to mine.

Tags: Blogging, Firefox, Writing Tip