Screenplain allows you to write a screenplay as a plain text file. Text files are simple and supported by all text manipulation software. It's not just for hackers, too. The simplicity of plain text allows you to easily view and edit them on devices such as tablets and phones. No need for specific screenwriting software.

Netspeak helps you to improve your writing.

When searching for words, Netspeak can give you directions. Our dictionary contains billions of phrases and how commonly they are used

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Looking at your three examples, I would say the following:

The first one (hyphens) emphasises that it's his third meal of the day, making it at least as important an idea as the broken table.

The second one (commas) downplays the idea, making the broken table more important, just leaving us with an impression about the eating. This is the most subtle of the three.

In the third one (parentheses), the narrator is speaking directly to the reader and is making an out-of-character remark about Bilbo's eating habits. This is the most blatant of the three.

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A minimap plugin for TextMate.

The Matias Tactile Pro Keyboard is built from the same premium keyswitch technology that Apple used in its original Apple Extended Keyboard, widely viewed as the best keyboard Apple ever made.

I’ve been inspired by many books and been educated by countless more. But Murray’s work is different. He’s on a different level — broadcasting from the inside, if that makes any sense.

Synonyms, antonyms, and rhymes (oh my!)

QLMarkdown is a simple QuickLook generator for Markdown files. It renders a preview of the selected Markdown file using Discount -- a C implementation of John Gruber's Markdown.pl script.

Variation of the markdown TextMate bundle with improved support for MultiMarkdown

The sweetest stuff has to be unearthed and recommended by people we trust. Which is why everyone should blog. When you blog there are two types of entries:

For Mac users who want to use their favorite text editor everywhere. QuickCursor is menu item that allows you to edit text from any application in your favorite text editor*. Unlike custom “edit in” plugin solutions QuickCursor provides a standard open source solution that uses public API's and doesn’t require input manager hacks to work.

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Is it still possible to download WriteRoom 1?

Main Idea Sentence Starters

As a technical matter, I write for 20-30 minutes every day. I do it at 5 a.m. or 6 a.m. in the morning. I write 250 words, about one page. At that rate, I do a little over a novel a year and that's not a bad clip to go at. Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

here are really only a few tricks to writing properly for the web. If you know how to write, you are already 95% of the way there.

These are some of the more common mistakes that I’ve seen in web copy and some tricks that I use every day to write effectively, from e-mails to site pages.