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  • Steve Dotto here. Today, were going to help you become a better writer. Well, maybe

  • not become a better writer but appear to be a better writer by making less mistakes, by

  • plowing your way through writing roadblocks by hook or by crook or by using the best tools

  • available to help you compose more effectively and efficiently your thoughts into a writer

  • form, writing tools today on Dottotech. I should have used some for my preamble.

  • Let’s start by just talking about simple, simple basic writing. I increasingly just

  • use Google drive as my word processor. Why do I use Google Drive? Because it’s online

  • and almost all of my writing now happens online. But occasionally I need a little bit of help.

  • Now I’ve talked in the past about Grammarly, which is my grammar checking editor and I’ll

  • talk about that again at the very end today. It’s a tool that helps me with my process

  • of writing. But when I’m actually just writing in Google

  • Docs or in Google Drive—I’m still used to calling it Google Docswhen I’m in

  • Google Drive—I don’t know what it is, maybe it’s getting older—I still sometimes

  • confuse words. If you look for a list of commonly confused words on the internet, I confuse

  • almost all of those words all of the time and every time I confuse a word, I have to

  • sit there and think which word I’m supposed to be using.

  • For example, here at the very beginning of this text, one of the words I have trouble

  • with iseffect.” Is iteffectoraffect?” I know the difference. Right

  • now as I’m speaking to you, I absolutely know the difference but does that mean that

  • 25 minutes from now when I’m writing, I’m in the middle of writing, that I will know

  • the difference? No. For some reason, I forget. So within Google Drive, a lot of us just right-click

  • on the word and look, you can define the word. You can bring up a little definition in and

  • up comes Google Research which tells you a description of the word. That is awesome.

  • You should use this a lot. If youre experiencing a little bit of writer’s block or some issues

  • around things, you want to use a different word, down in the bottom of each time they

  • do a definition, they will give you synonyms so you can come up with maybe a different

  • word that works better, especially if youre using the same word over and over again. So

  • tip #1 for better writing, right-click your mouse on the word, especially if youre

  • in Google Docs, and use the resources that are available to you.

  • Tip #2, this one I really like for a whole variety of reasons. It’s a simple little

  • web service called Word Counter and all they do—I’ve just copied some text in here

  • of an articleis you ask it to go through and how often am I using this word or these

  • words. You can see if youre using one word too repetitively within the document which

  • again allows you to go back in that if you realize that youre using a word too often.

  • Now this particular document was about Bluetooth headsets so the wordheadsetbeing there

  • a lot was important. But here is an additional benefit. If youre

  • writing for the web and you want to write SEO, search engine optimization-friendly content

  • and there are certain keywords that you want in that document to help Google find that

  • document as it’s searching, you can use this as well to make sure that youve got

  • a number of instances of your keywords within a document as you search it. That is a hidden

  • benefit in this little tool called Word Counter. Now the next tool I like just because it’s

  • got the best title of any product that I’ve ever seenWrite or Die 2 by Dr. Wicked.

  • This is a word processor and it’s available in a desktop version but the online one works

  • great. It cost like $20 to buy the full version but what it does—I’m going to enact her

  • and start it playing so you can see how it worksis as youre writing, it plays back

  • nice sounds. It does all sorts of nice things for you.

  • But if youre not writing, if youre not moving along and kind of getting through the

  • work that you have to get done, like I’ve got 15 minutes or so here to get through this

  • word processing document that I’m working. So if I’m writing along and I’m saying,

  • It’s talking to me very nastily and I should be writing,” now if I stop and I

  • get writer’s block and I stop writing for a few seconds, it starts to go kind of psycho

  • on you. Youve got different ways of having it kick in. See, now it’s turning red. It’s

  • getting angry. Let me just turn up my speakers. It starts playing like horror music unless

  • I start writing. Okay, I give. It gets you kind of writing again.

  • I don’t know if its conducive to the best prose being written—I’ve got to pause

  • it or it’s going to get angry againbut when it’s happy, itll give you niceokay,

  • peanut butter and jelly time. When it’s happy, you can have it doing things like having

  • cats purr at you and give you nice backgrounds and all sorts of things. But when it’s angry,

  • when youre not writing, it gets irritating, sometimes horrifically so. So Write or Die

  • 2, if you do experience writer’s block, if you do need that little extra impetus to

  • get through everything as youre doing it, it is a tool that you might consider.

  • Now I mentioned that I used Google Drive as my main processor. My favorite word processor

  • of all, one from a small company in England called Scrivener and theresorry, the company’s

  • called Literature and Latte and the product is called Scrivener. It is a word processer

  • which—I’m just going to let the video play here just a little bit. I’ll turn down

  • the volume here. You can kind of see it. I don’t have it installed on this particular

  • computer right now but I live this as a word processor because if you are a scriptwriter,

  • if you are a student and youre working on documents where you need lots organization

  • and structure to it, this Scrivener allows you to create kind of building blocks of whatever

  • work youre working on. So here for example, each of these little

  • snippets of text that we see on this corkboard, theyre all editable. You can reassemble

  • them as you go. So if youre writing a script, it’s great. You can have dialogue. You can

  • have characters. You can have all these things in these little index cards. If youre a

  • student and youre writing a paper, you can be taking notes, putting them all on these

  • little index cards and then assemble them later on into a word processed form.

  • I don’t know if I’ve done justice to it in the explanation of it right now. It’s

  • a fairly inexpensive word processor. I think it’s like $50 or $60 to purchase but as

  • far as I’m concerned, for structured writing where youre doing a lot of research and

  • youre doing a lot of massaging of the content, not for blog writing, the sort of writing

  • that I do nowadays where it’s just 500 words and I’m done. But if youre writing papers,

  • if youre writing scripts, if youre writing a book, this would be the tool that I would

  • choose without any question. Scrivenerit’s a word processor which I think the world of.

  • And finally if you do the sort of writing that I do and that we all do now, we do Tweets,

  • we do status updates and we do short, little 200-word blog posts and incredibly long 500-word

  • blog posts, one of the things that suffers as a result is craftsmanship. Because I’m

  • writing to short length, I don’t pay as much attention to accuracy, especially around

  • spelling, punctuation in these short little posts. Consequently, I end up sometimes looking

  • a little bit less intelligent than I should because I post things before theyre ready

  • to be posted, with mistakes on them. So I purchased Grammarly which is software

  • that you buy online and it basically does online grammar and spellchecking for you.

  • Now it’s not very expensive. It’s $120 or so for a year, I think, is what I paid

  • for it. But what it’s done for me is it’s changed my process. I actually have a full

  • video here which I’ll create a link to. It’s changed my process. Because I purchased

  • this, I actually go into it and every time I’m posting anything at all, I just check

  • it very quickly and it goes through and it does grammar checking and spellchecking.

  • It also, as a bonus, does plagiarism checking which is awesome. Maybe youve been making

  • notes, maybe youve been clipping things off of the internet and youve accidentally

  • incorporated them into your document what somebody else is writing without you knowing

  • about it, it will actually tell you if it’s found it somewhere else, if it’s found those

  • phrases somewhere else online so that you can pay attention and either credit the original

  • author or rewrite it so that you don’t actually plagiarize somebody. For people who do plagiarize,

  • if youre hiring somebody to do writing for you, it’s a great way for you to check

  • to make sure that they haven’t posted that somewhere else online as well. So it’s got

  • some of those nice things going for it. But for me, kind of rolling back, the benefit

  • is it does catch the odd grammar mistake that I make and allows me to look at it. It does

  • catch the odd spelling mistake but what it really does is by the fact that it comes up

  • with a few suggestions is it makes me stop and reread my work once before I publish it

  • and I found that I’m catching far more errors and my written communication is that much

  • more clear and that much less embarrassing as a result. So that is my fifth and last

  • tool that were going to talk about today, Grammarly.

  • So there we have it. Right-click your mouse on words, especially if youre in word processor

  • like Google Drive, and you can check the accuracy of the words, you can check if it’s being

  • used properly and you can find synonyms; you can count your words overall in your document

  • for search engine optimization or to make sure youre not being overly repetitive.

  • If you have writer’s block, Write or Die, which is a fairly dire situation; Literature

  • and Latte’s Scrivener, which I think is the outstanding word processor on the planet

  • today; and finally Grammarly, which will help you change your process especially for short,

  • online posts and make sure that you make less mistakes when you post online that way.

  • I hope you found this video to be useful. I know that I think all of these tips I use

  • on a fairly regular—I don’t use Write or Die yet but I might start using Write or

  • Die. That would be fun. I hope you found this useful and if you have, please give us a thumbs

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  • as one of our subscribers. That means you get our videos before everybody else does,

  • which is simply awesome. Don’t you agree? I’m Steve Dotto. You have a great day.

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