Fuel Your Writing Notebook for Evernote!
Exciting News!
Most of you will be familiar with Evernote, the multi-platform software that allows users to easily capture, organise and retrieve notes, ideas and inspiration with total ease. Recently, Evernote released their Trunk feature, comprising of a growing number of products – hardware, applications and notebooks – to expand upon the main Evernote app.
Fuel Your Writing is proud to announce the Fuel Your Writing Notebook for Evernote!
Released today, the FYW Notebook is part of three notebooks released by the Fuel Brand Network for Evernote, along with ones from both Fuel Your Creativity and Fuel Your Photography.
All of us at Fuel Your Writing know that starting a writing project can be hard, so the articles that make up the Notebook offer advice on how to organise your work (such as using Evernote itself), what websites, resources and writing tools to use, and how to submit your writing.
Evernote’s notebooks can be important into a user’s account, to inspire, give advice, and act as a starting point for further notes on that subject. In the Fuel Your Writing Notebook, we have compiled some of the best recent articles to share with Evernote’s four million (!) users. If you aren’t one of them already, download the app for your platform of choice here, and then be sure to grab the FYW Notebook here.
A big thank you to the all the writers here from me personally for all of your awesome articles, so that we had some incredible content to include in the Evernote Notebook!
Christopher Jackson is the Editor for Fuel Your Writing and a creative copywriter. He is currently working on Project: Snotbook, an interactive children’s storybook for iPad.
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It’s the first notebook I download, very interesting idea :)
It seems funny to me that this ‘editor’ describes himself this way:
“began editing when his sister needed her essay checking for her degree!”
I’m not even sure what that means. Although Christopher Jackson is doubtlessly a great writer, this article certainly doesn’t support the theory.
I started editing my sister’s essays, when she was working for a degree in Sociology. That was my first editing experience. I’m not sure what is confusing about my bio.
I’m a writer first and an editor second. I can’t really see what was so offensive about this particular article that you felt the need to comment negatively on my editing/writing skills, rather than upon the exciting news for Fuel Your Writing and the Fuel Network.
LOL… Sorry Christopher. Consider me chastened (I didn’t realize you would actually be checking this article’s comments and so I didn’t put very much time into my note).
BUT, my point is that “needed her essay checking” sounds like an ESL first-writing-assignment conjugation mistake. Wouldn’t it be better English to say “when his sister needed her essay checked”?
or, if you persisted in your desire to use the word “checking” perhaps (in a pinch) you could say “needed her essay-checking done” or “needed some essay checking for her degree”
The internet fuels this type of weird dialogue so, lest I come across as self-absorbed, let me close by saying that I actually LOVE FYW and think that the article was well done. I didn’t find anything offensive. On the contrary, I found it very amusing -especially the end- and hope that you will find it in your heart to appreciate the ironic humor in an innocent copywriting mistake slipping through the editing process – in an article promoting a service to improve one’s writing.
I *may* be able to shed some light here. Christof, are you based outside the UK, by any chance? Maybe even in the US? I’m an American who has spent a lot time among the Brits, and the first time I heard that construction (something like “I just needed my car oil checking”), it sounded wrong. I’ve since realized that this is actually an accepted pattern in British English. And judging by the UK spelling of “finalised” in Christopher’s blog, I’m guessing British English is his native tongue.
I may be way off base, but it sounds like a simple case of assuming we all speak the same English – not necessarily true ;)
I had never thought about this being the source of the confusion, but I think you may be right Kimberly! :D
Brilliant insight Kimberly! Although I spent several years in the UK in the late 90’s and early… zeros(?), noughties(?), twenty-first century(?) I didn’t think about the difference in colloquialisms when I read this article for the first time. Now, the question remains, what do we make of the opportunity for miscommunication here? Should we all use Queen’s English(?), International English(!), or something else when posting on the internet? Or is there simply a need for more grace on the part of your readership?
In which case… how do we get more grace? The Church will probably not be of much help here. And neither will Bono. So what to do?
Hope I didn’t come across as too harsh Cristof; I appreciate your comment, the sentence isn’t worded particularly well, you’re right.
Hope you continue to read and enjoy FYW!
I’ve heard what a useful tool Evernote can be. I have an Evernote account, but have not used it very much. I will take a closer look at Evernote, especially now that the Fuel Your Writing tools have been added.
How are you using Evernote and how does it help you with writing projects?
I tried Evernote for a while, but I’ve found that Tomboy notes works really well for straight worldbuilding type notes, especially because it effectively makes your own personal, interconnected wiki.
Does Evernote still require internet access to use? I’ve got my choice of a computer where I can get online but can’t download/save stuff and a laptop where I can’t get online.