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Notetaking & writing on the iPad: First app review – Sketchpad HD

More writers have been asking me about what apps I'm finding useful on the iPad, so I'm going to start reviewing various notetaking and writing apps I've been trying out. I posted my first on iPadGirl today: Sketchbook HD – Great idea, but doesn't work properly in landscape mode

iPad envy comic, drawn on my iPad

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If you're curious about the steps I took to create the image above, see my iPadGirl post.

Bluestocking Blog: Lessons Learned at a Writing Conference

I've always appreciated those who post about what they've learned at writing conferences. The author of Bluestocking Blog recently wrote about the main lessons she learned at the event, and her post includes some excellent advice.

C.S. Lewis may NOT have been rejected 800 times

Last year, I posted that C.S. Lewis had been rejected 800 times after finding the info on several websites. Several readers have since questioned this data, including Mary Mueller, who said:

Who the heck is Inkygirl and where the heck did she get her data?? This is entirely undocumented (the 800 rejections) and shouldn't be "published," even on an amateur website, without meticulous documentation.

Mary is entirely correct that I don't provide meticulous documentation for the rejection stories I...

Magazines and the iPad: review of Zinio & thoughts about reading/buying digital magazines

I've been reading more magazines on my iPad lately. Here's what I did and didn't like, and my answer to the question, "Will the iPad save the magazine publishing industry?"

Comic: Editorial Marriage Proposal Rejection

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Blog highlight: Literary Rejections On Display

Rejection always hurts. I'm skeptical of writers who claim that rejections don't bother them at all. No matter how experienced you are, I can't help but think that a rejection -ANY rejection- has got to sting at least a little.

Don't know about the rest of you, but I'm saving all my rejections (paper and digital) for any particular project so I can roll them out to encourage other writers WHEN that project gets published. I certainly appreciate hearing about other writers' rejections -...

Weekly Wordcount Check-In: 250, 500, 1000 wds/day

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Do you need a wordcount challenge with some leeway?

Check out the challenges below:

250 wds/day | 500 wds/day | 1000 wds/day

So how did you all do with your daily wordcount challenges since the last check-in?

My comics on Writer Unboxed

My first comic is online at Writer Unboxed! I'll be posting comics there every other weekend. For those who aren't familiar with the site, Writer Unboxed is an excellent source of writing tips and info for genre fiction writers.

Morning Ritual Goal: Posting less online but writing more

After my last get-together with my writing pal, Mahtab Narsimhan, I've adopted a new daily work schedule. I generally wake at about 6-6:30 a.m. and head down to my office to do e-mail, then surf for publishing news for my Market Watch column while also updating @inkyelbows and other feeds on Twitter.

From now on, I'm going to do some writing first thing … BEFORE GOING ONLINE. I've been trying it for a few days now and I'm very happy with the results. By 8 a.m., I've been writing for 1.5-2...