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How to write something long and complicated

Thursday, November 13, 2008

I find myself in the new and delightful position of writing for money. So I needed to step up my game in terms of workflow and file management. The last time I tried to write something long, I was in college, using Windows 3.1 and good old Wordperfect 6. Then the Microsoft hegemony set in [...]

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A better word processor than Microsoft Word came free with your computer

Thursday, November 6, 2008

If you use a Mac, that program is called TextEdit. You can find it in your Applications folder, under Utilities. If you use Windows, the program is called Wordpad, made, ironically, by Microsoft. If you poke around your Start menu among the various programs, it’s in there somewhere, depending which version of Windows you have. [...]

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How to make something print correctly on someone else’s computer

Thursday, November 6, 2008

I used to have a jazz band. I was in charge of the sheet music, making sure everyone had the most up to date versions of their parts. There are some very nice computer programs that make music notation as easy as word processing, like Finale and Sibelius, but keeping track of all the printouts [...]

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