Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Ruined, Youtube Trailers and a wonderful program called Q10

I just finished reading a book by a New Zealand author called 'Ruined: a ghost story'. I loved the tone and the setting (in New Orleans) and I also rather enjoyed its Youtube trailer of all things. I am quite keen on the idea of creating YouTube trailers for my own books - it seems like fun and would give a very visual synopsis. I liked the way you found out about the author's inspirations for the story and it made me want to read it (even though I had just finished reading it and writing the review).

As for Q10 - my friend Rochelle introduced me to the wee beastie and I like it because it is so simple. It is a word processor without any bells and whistles. It is full screen so you can't get distracted, it counts your words down the bottom, you can set a timer and just relax into writing. I sense it is going to be perfect for Nano.

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