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For about a month now, I’ve seriously considered my work here on Ten Keyboards. The fact that I’ve had to consider my work here tells me volumes about whether or not I should continue writing here.

I think not.

Not because the subject of technology for writers is a bad one. No, it is because there is no unique voice that can be created on this topic.

In terms of the significant technology items for writers: they are all over the blogosphere in terms of how to use blogs, how to use web sites, and how to use the Internet to promote businesses, writing or not.

In addition, over the course of the last 10-months, writers have become much more in tune with how technology can help writers and are writing them on their own blogs. Whether it is virtual book tours, using blogs to build audiences, sending out newsletters to fans, or creating great content for our readers, writers have adjusted to this new reality.

I’ll leave this content up because there is some really good information contained in past posts. But, I’ll cease and desist on writing more for this blog.

In the meantime, if you work at a knowledge worker position while writing, you can read about Career Management for Cubicle Warriors over on Cube Rules.

Or, if you happen to be a ham radio operator, you can read my contesting site over on K9JY Ham Radio: Amateur Radio Contesting.

Thanks for the opportunity to write for you. It has been a pleasure.

Scot

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This month, I’m providing a writer’s technology tip-a-day (along with other posts) to help you in your writing goals.

Today’s tip: Use a Digital Camera.

Many of us are visual — we like the one picture that portrays the thousand words. The notes on the page simply don’t cut it when it comes to remembering a setting, a city, or a landscape.

Enter the digital camera. Digital cameras have really advanced in both clarity of the picture as well as the ability to frame a picture. Easily downloaded to a computer as well, digital cameras allow you to take a multitude of pictures and select the best one that you need to enhance your writing. They are now consistently small where a good digital camera can fit into a shirt pocket or purse.

The picture allows the writer to save a scene, capture a unique feature of a person for a character, or get in close to see the details of something that will add depth to your writing.

A camera is not for every writer. But pictures can allow you to write the thousand words. Before editing, of course…

Scot

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