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The best meditation on blogging and bloggers I have read so far: In fact, for all the intense gloom surrounding the news-paper and magazine business, this is actually a golden era for journalism. The blogosphere has added a whole new idiom to the act of writing and has introduced an entirely new generation to nonfiction. It has enabled writers to write out loud in ways never seen or understood before. And yet it has exposed a hunger and need for traditional writing that, in the age of television’s dominance, had seemed on the wane. Words, of all sorts, have never seemed so now.

The Freelance Switch blog rounds up 20 industries that are better bets for any full- or part-time freelancers looking to pick up new clients than cold-canvassing. Any freelancer's mileage will vary...

Contrary to the conventional wisdom that a word processor can’t help you to become a better writer, you can use OpenOffice.org Writer with the Writer's Tools extension to improve your writing skills and make the writing process more efficient.

When you need a word's definition, translation, pronunciation, synonym, or antonym, you don't have to haul an enormous tome from the bookshelf, dust it off, and ruffle through its delicate pages like...

Windows only: Every modern word processor includes a word count function, but if you're worried about repetition, you want word frequency information. What if you're dying to know how many times the...

Writer Rachel Greenham details how she takes advantage of version control tool Subversion—primarily used by software devlopers—to manage her writing projects. We've covered how to set up...

Being on top of your grammar is a skill that takes years of practice to refine into unthinking craft, but even the most word-minded among us can trip up when it comes how keyboards transpose our...

Need to make all-caps text a little less shout-y? Don't feel like going through a ream of lines and fixing all the capitalization? TextOpus, a free text-filtering web app, is a great place to start....

Simple web-based text editor DarkCopy is an online clone of previously posted distraction-free word processor Writeroom. Dispense with all the toolbars, pull-downs, and context menus at DarkCopy, a...

Perfect your writing style by following the habits of great writers, especially with regards to scheduling. The Study Hacks weblog has reviewed interviews of many non-fiction writers and discovered...

Web learning site Education Portal points to 10 universities (and semi-universities) that offer free online writing courses. Covering everything from fiction and screenwriting to technical...