Amazon hasn’t launched any new Kindles for a while, but it does have a deal that changes which is the best for us to buy. Not to save you watching the video, but it’s the Kindle Paperwhite Kids edition. Join the Writer’s Mailing list too: http://eepurl.com/gQTqTT and also, read my book on how any writer can get more done: https://amzn.to/3RZhfAH
LINKS:
Kindle Paperwhite Kids: https://amzn.to/3dpLJMA
Previous 58keys on Kindle versus iPad: https://youtu.be/afAS1MnMBIY
Bunch is the simplest Mac app with the most enormous impact: this will change how you switch between writing apps and tasks.
LINKS:
Bunch for Mac: bunchapp.co
The best, no, okay, latest, no, alright, fuzziest and most man-COVID-full explanation of Regular Expressions – the writing tool that makes normal Find and Replace look feeble.
LINKS:
How to really learn RegEx:https://www.regextutorial.org
My RexEx code for rewriting that paragraph of names into a list:
\((.*?)\)
Scrivener is famously great for writing books — but all of its tremendous features can also be used for scriptwriting.
LINKS:
William Gallagher rabbits on about Scrivener on the new Write Scrivener podcast: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/write-now-with-scrivener-episode-no-16-william-gallagher-playwright-novelist-and-tech-journalist
58keys on Scrivener for iPad: https://studio.youtube.com/video/n99juTVxGOw/
58keys: Three Biscuit Guide to Scrivener: https://studio.youtube.com/video/2d55-sbWMh4/
58keys interview with Scrivener expert Martin Sketchley: https://studio.youtube.com/video/hbPSE4mox5E/
Scrivener: https://www.literatureandlatte.com
Final Draft: https://www.finaldraft.com
Highland 2: https://highland2.app
You’ve far too many documents and apps and Finder windows open, you can’t see what you need next. You are so very not alone in this, though, that there are many, many solutions. Also, read my book on how writers can get more done: https://amzn.to/3RZhfAH
LINKS:
Moom: https://manytricks.com/moom/
Mosaic: https://www.lightpillar.com/mosaic.html
Setapp: https://setapp.com
BetterTouchTool: https://folivora.ai
Keyboard Maestro: https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/
If you have a Mac, skip watching me explain and enthuse about how great Alfred 5 is and what it does for us as writers, and just go buy it immediately.
LINKS:
Alfred 5: https://www.alfredapp.com
58keys episode on Alfred 4: https://youtu.be/TvohiqDyg0c
MacPowerUsers: https://www.relay.fm/mpu/649
Bookings open now – must close Friday 8 July
Regular price for four sessions: £80 (~$100)
Use discount code 58KEYS to book for: £65 (~$80)
You are not writing enough and I know this because neither am I. It’s practically the definition of a writer that we don’t get on with it. But we need to, whether that’s because we’ve got deadlines or because writing is part of our very being.
The 58keys Writing Sprint is four sessions on consecutive Monday evenings, lasting two hours each. By far the most important thing is one hour in the middle in which you are just going to sit right there and write – and so am I. So is everyone. A solid sixty minutes of writing.
Now, I got this idea from young writers’ workshops I run where the best bit is a period where we simply write what we want. Maybe it’s something new, maybe it’s something we’re already working on.
But since those times always came at the end of a workshop, there was also the option for these young writers to just carry on writing something they started in an exercise.
I want you and me to have this same protected, important hour, but I also want you to have that benefit of an exercise that can get you started.
So roughly half an hour at the start will be me telling you about a specific writing topic I’m obsessed with – dialogue, character, plotting, everything really – and it will include at least one short exercise.
Then roughly half an hour at the end of the session will be for us all to just talk. Also to slap oursleves on the back for having got an hour’s writing done.
I hope you’ll join me. I hope you and I will both get a lot out of this. I think it’s going to be special.
William
Well, okay, I wanted it… but this is the £200 ($200) Extended Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and it’s hard to justify that cost. Let me have a go anyway.
LINK:
Apple’s extended Magic Keyboard with Touch ID on Amazon – note that the deal I got is currently over; also watch that you get the right country layout. I bought the UK English one here: https://amzn.to/3lZRNwh
Apple’s keyboard from Apple itself – this time still check you’re getting the right country version, but also note that there is a $179 version in white: https://apple.co/3GM7pND
You can’t afford to mistype your email address or your bank details, but that’s not the kind of writing you got into this for. Let your Mac handle repetitive typing tasks while you concentrate on being the writer you’re meant to be.
TextExpander: https://textexpander.com
58lkeys on text expansion for iPhones and iPads: https://youtu.be/EdWWbg8r1dM
Hazel is the Mac app you don’t realise you need, and then when you’ve got it, you forget it’s there. But here’s how it is always working for you, always sorting out your documents and always saving you time.
LINKS:
Hazel for Mac: https://www.noodlesoft.com