Comments on: Five Favourite Freelance Writing Tools Online http://btr.michaelkwan.com/2008/08/18/five-favourite-freelance-writing-tools-online/ Freelance Writing, Personal Development, and Making Money with Freelance Writer Michael Kwan Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:03:34 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Did You Subscribe To That RSS Feed? | Debo Hobo dot Com http://btr.michaelkwan.com/2008/08/18/five-favourite-freelance-writing-tools-online/#comment-60888 Did You Subscribe To That RSS Feed? | Debo Hobo dot Com Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:15:31 +0000 http://btr.michaelkwan.com/?p=1883#comment-60888 [...] I believe in my readers, and because I have been reading a few blogs out there that focus on good writing and solid content. My readers will on find well crafted content going [...] [...] I believe in my readers, and because I have been reading a few blogs out there that focus on good writing and solid content. My readers will on find well crafted content going [...]

]]> By: Jorge http://btr.michaelkwan.com/2008/08/18/five-favourite-freelance-writing-tools-online/#comment-60867 Jorge Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:45:09 +0000 http://btr.michaelkwan.com/?p=1883#comment-60867 Wikipedia and Google make my life easier. My old dictionary too. :) Wikipedia and Google make my life easier. My old dictionary too. :)

]]> By: Thomas http://btr.michaelkwan.com/2008/08/18/five-favourite-freelance-writing-tools-online/#comment-60854 Thomas Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:29:45 +0000 http://btr.michaelkwan.com/?p=1883#comment-60854 * A really excellent replacement for notepad is metapad - very similar and very simple, but far more flexible with extra features. (find/replace, character count, click on url to fast load it, wsiwyg print preview). http://liquidninja.com/metapad/ * One step up is YeahWrite!, a small fast program (unbelievable 1.2 Mb) I have used for years for plain writing and journalism and would use no other - it really feels like a writer's tool. It has bold/italic, bullets, a spell checker, word count, and when you click 'print' you first get a preview of a few clean simple layouts (article, book, book double-spaced, block). Save (export) your file as plain text or rtf. You can buy a licensed version, but don't bother - the free one is more than enough. It hasn't been upgraded since 2003 and doesn't need to be. http://www.yeahwrite.com/ * A really excellent replacement for notepad is metapad – very similar and very simple, but far more flexible with extra features. (find/replace, character count, click on url to fast load it, wsiwyg print preview).
http://liquidninja.com/metapad/
* One step up is YeahWrite!, a small fast program (unbelievable 1.2 Mb) I have used for years for plain writing and journalism and would use no other – it really feels like a writer’s tool. It has bold/italic, bullets, a spell checker, word count, and when you click ‘print’ you first get a preview of a few clean simple layouts (article, book, book double-spaced, block). Save (export) your file as plain text or rtf. You can buy a licensed version, but don’t bother – the free one is more than enough. It hasn’t been upgraded since 2003 and doesn’t need to be.
http://www.yeahwrite.com/

]]> By: Michael Kwan http://btr.michaelkwan.com/2008/08/18/five-favourite-freelance-writing-tools-online/#comment-60848 Michael Kwan Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:49:01 +0000 http://btr.michaelkwan.com/?p=1883#comment-60848 You are correct. Fixed. You are correct. Fixed.

]]> By: Damien http://btr.michaelkwan.com/2008/08/18/five-favourite-freelance-writing-tools-online/#comment-60847 Damien Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:02:17 +0000 http://btr.michaelkwan.com/?p=1883#comment-60847 The wordcount and Firefox rang true with me right away. However, remember the new Wordpress has a real time wordcount right there in the dashboard! The wordcount and Firefox rang true with me right away. However, remember the new Wordpress has a real time wordcount right there in the dashboard!

]]> By: Matt http://btr.michaelkwan.com/2008/08/18/five-favourite-freelance-writing-tools-online/#comment-60842 Matt Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:29:10 +0000 http://btr.michaelkwan.com/?p=1883#comment-60842 WordPress now has it's own word counter, so the first point is a bit irrelevant (when referring to WordPress). <blockquote cite="http://btr.michaelkwan.com/2008/08/18/five-favourite-freelance-writing-tools-online/">Another shortcoming of Notepad is that it does have a spellchecker…</blockquote> I think you mean that Note <em>doesn't</em> have a spellchecker. WordPress now has it’s own word counter, so the first point is a bit irrelevant (when referring to WordPress).

Another shortcoming of Notepad is that it does have a spellchecker…

I think you mean that Note doesn’t have a spellchecker.

]]> By: dcr http://btr.michaelkwan.com/2008/08/18/five-favourite-freelance-writing-tools-online/#comment-60841 dcr Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:49:29 +0000 http://btr.michaelkwan.com/?p=1883#comment-60841 Good list. Being a Mac person, I use Pages instead of Word anyway, and don't recall having any problems with strange characters when I paste into WordPress. I never really used a word processing program until Pages. On my old Mac (before Mac OS X), I used a text editor called SaintEdit. I used that for the longest time. Back in the Apple IIe days, I used AppleWorks for word processing. My first stories (those I wrote on computer anyway) were done in AppleWorks. I tried various word processors on the old Mac, but never stuck with any. Once I came across SaintEdit, that's what I stuck with. Just a basic text editor; even did some web pages with it. For formatted text, well, that was what PageMaker was for. ;-) Good list. Being a Mac person, I use Pages instead of Word anyway, and don’t recall having any problems with strange characters when I paste into WordPress. I never really used a word processing program until Pages. On my old Mac (before Mac OS X), I used a text editor called SaintEdit. I used that for the longest time. Back in the Apple IIe days, I used AppleWorks for word processing. My first stories (those I wrote on computer anyway) were done in AppleWorks. I tried various word processors on the old Mac, but never stuck with any. Once I came across SaintEdit, that’s what I stuck with. Just a basic text editor; even did some web pages with it. For formatted text, well, that was what PageMaker was for. ;-)

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