Good advice on Starting a journal at the foolish galatian.

Seth Godin says “write like a blogger“

• Found a web page you want to read but don’t have time now? Use Instapaper.com to mark it for later
• Noel Piper shares a few tips for those who wish to be writers: So You Want to Be a Writer?
• Writerisms and other Sins: A Writer’s Shortcut to Stronger Writing
• In the “useless” but “novel” category, while we’re talking about writing, when you start working on that novel and you need to think up some names for your characters, save some brain power and use the Name Generator

Joshua Sowin shares A Guide to Writing Well which he “mainly distilled from On Writing Well by William Zinsser and The Elements of Style by Strunk and White.”

I read Zinsser’s book about a year ago and loved it. Both books should be close by–along with this guide–for those who write just about anything.

From: Justin Taylor

Great news for those of us who often need to move a Microsoft Word document to the web and wish to retain much of the formatting–and great news for those who wish to move Word documents to a WordPress powered website.

blog.dot is a Word document template with an associated DLL for Windows that makes moving a Word document to WordPress (or any other web application where HTML formatted text is needed) a breeze.

This tool produces very clean HTML–far better than Microsoft’s options for exporting HTML from a Word document. It can post directly to your blog or will give you a window of your HTML formatted text to copy and paste to WordPress or any other web application.

From: wpplugins.org

Rediscovered this today. Writing, Briefly. Especially appreciate the last line–”learn to recognize the approach of an ending, and when one appears, grab it.”