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DropTask - Login. Resources. Here is a list of resources and organizations which we have found helpful in our own publishing careers.

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We hope you find them useful to you as well! Booklife, by Jeff VanderMeer Offering timely advice in an era when the burden of production and publicity frequently falls on authors, this essential reference reflects on methods for being focused, productive, and savvy in the craft of writing. Discusses topics such as personal space versus public space, deadlines, and networking, the benefits of interacting with readers through new technologies.

Visit the Booklife website, or purchase Booklife at Amazon. SFWA SFWA, short for “Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America,” an organization for professional science fiction and fantasy authors in the United States. RWA RWA, short for “Romance Writers of America,” an organization for professional romance authors in the United States. Preditors & Editors A guide to publishers and publishing services for serious writers since 1997.

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Tools. Facebook. How do i build a multi blog user website for multiple writers. Tools for Collaborative Writing. By Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel In short, collaborative writing has completely changed the way we work and even the way we think.

Tools for Collaborative Writing

As we wrote in a previous post, “Collaborative writing is a kind of apex learning activity.” The two of us, Sean and Jesse, have known each other for almost 13 years. We’ve worked closely, inhabited physical space together, and have jointly built new virtual spaces. We didn’t really know each other, though, until we started living inside each other’s sentences, paragraphs, and even semi-colons. There are many tools for working collaboratively, and this post is a review of those tools.

In 2011, Jason B. Google Docs: This is the tool within which we both cut our synchronous co-authoring teeth. Editorially: This tool is not designed for synchronous co-authorship. CommentPress: A plugin for WordPress, CommentPress allows post-publication marginalia on a piece of writing. Etherpad: GitHub: iCloud Pages: Penflip: Draft: Gingko: Share and Enjoy. Considerations. A Deep Look at New Collaborative Writing Tools Editorially, Draft and Penflip.

Update Feb. 13: Editorially announced it'll be shutting down its service May 30.

A Deep Look at New Collaborative Writing Tools Editorially, Draft and Penflip

For two alternatives besides those mentioned in this post, see Typewrite and StackEdit. Writing is a major part of our operations at Zapier. Though you might not make that assumption for a startup whose product is an app integration platform, there’s plenty of writing on a daily basis. And not the kind that gets published privately. Quite the opposite, actually. In June, for example, we all pitched in to author over 278 pages of support documentation. A Need for Collaboration A year ago, when the Zapier team was just four people, writing was taken up by whoever had the time or knew the topic at hand well. For customer support, we use collaborative support desk software Help Scout.

So what’s our go-to collaborative writing tool? As the copy editor on the team, I’ve taken on the task of taking a deep look at these four new writing tools and presenting our team with the overview. An Overview The Deep Look Draft. Typewrite - Simple, Real-time Collaborative Writing Environment.