writing – Page 22 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Workshop: Scientific Work — Possible Academic Literature Workflow

2013-03-14

An overview of my academic workflow. Turns literature into Lego(TM) bricks to work with.
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Workshop: Scientific Work — Reading & Using Literature

2013-03-12

How to stay on top of your literature -- both when it comes to the big picture and (especially) the details. Also: Digital Reading and Outliners.
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Thievery isn’t flattery

2013-03-12

If you put something online, a few, a few very few, people will steal it. And "liberate" it for others. Hello DMCA notice.
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Workshop: Scientific Work — Managing Literature

2013-03-10

Don't get buried under a pile of papers. Here are ways to deal with academic literature by making it available digitally and storing it effectively. Also: Literature managers, DEVONthink, Circus Ponies Notebook, and more.
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Tips for (mainly) Fiction Writing

2013-02-28

Links to interesting articles on fiction writing -- huge amount of tips.
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Victims of Deceitful Success

2013-02-18

What happens when authors (e.g., of fictional works) get busted for plagiarism. Also: The bloodhounds of the crowd and influence vs. stealing.
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Writing a Book

2013-02-11

Four misconceptions about writing -- and things to do and use instead. Highly, highly recommended.
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Scientific / Academic Paper Writing Template

2013-02-05

Using a break book by Thomson & Kamler as basis, I created a nice template for planning scientific papers. Three pages of condensed information.
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Interesting Academic Writing Blogs

2013-01-21

Shout-outs and recommendation of two very good blogs.
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Using TextWrangler’s Grep Function to tidy up GoodReader Notes

2013-01-17

If you export notes/highlighted text with GoodReader, it adds unnecessary information. You can remove this information easily with TextWrangler. Also works for other kinds of slightly variable information that you want to deal with.
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A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.