boingboing.net - 1/28/2009
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Steven Johnson, guest-blogging at Boing Boing, on how he writes his books:
My word processors have varied over the years: I swore off MS Word after Mind Wide Open , and used Nisus Writer for Everything Bad and Ghost Map ; had a quick dalliance with Pages, and then actually returned to the ...
gadgets.boingboing.net - 1/30/2009
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de5130c70b342f88_pixel_book_covers.jpg I don't think much of the idea
of wrapping all my books in custom jackets, and...
I'm deeply distrustful of anyone who would meticulously arrange their bookshelves as a reading lover, but that all said: these pixel ...
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... How To Write a Book - Steven Johnson writes, on BoingBoing, how he uses DevonThink to gather and organize his book thoughts and structure before actually sitting down to produce the words. I love reading about the act of literary creation (I have a long shelf of "how to write mystery novel" books that I can almost quote chapter and verse), the way it's so different for every author yet so the output is so similar. ...
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