Marcelo Toledo

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NaNoWriMo

National Novel Writing Month, a.k.a. NaNoWriMo, is the biggest writing contest in the world, but contest for what? Best novel? No way, it’s a contest against you, that always wanted to write a book and never managed to finish. In November, you need to reach 50.000 words, don’t worry about quality and editing, this is for december, november is the month to produce volume, it’s less then 2000 words a day. If you already tried to write anything, you’ll know that 2000 words a day is hard, but good enough to achieve. One other important thing is, no one will…

How to organize what you write?

For a long time I’ve been using diferent softwares for organizing what I write, articles and book basically, my favorite tool is absolutely no doubt LaTeX, I have never seen a software that produce with so much quality the result of your writings. But LaTeX can be rather complicated and aren’t we all looking for simplicity? When I am writing a book or article I really want to forget everything and focus on content, and that’s what I’ve found, you can even export to LaTeX or other dozen formats. It’s not free software, but it’s fair, it’s Scrivener. I sugggest…