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Writing about the reactions of family and friends

Writing about writing, Week #17

Do your friends and family know about your writing?  If so, what have their reactions been?

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Writing about being a ‘writer’

Writing about writing, Week #16

In your opinion, when does someone become a ‘writer’?  Once he or she has written something?  Had something published?  When writing becomes the day job?  Or at some other stage in the process? 

Do you call yourself a writer?

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Writing about filing systems

So, a new year’s writing has begun.  I haven’t started my new job yet, so in the last week I’ve added about 15,000 words to the work in progress.  I’ve just saved my ‘January 08, 2008′ file and sent it to my Gmail account as a back up. 

Writing about writing, Week #15

How do you organise your writing on your computer?  Do you just have one document for each piece?  Or do you have separate files for each chapter or section?  When you redraft something do you write over top of your original or do you save a new document?

 And as a bonus question, what software do you use for your writing?

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