New Editor Overview Pane in Microsoft Word

Microsoft updates its Office 365 applications regularly, and February brought one interesting update for those who use Word for writing or editing: a new “Editor overview pane.” It’s not a new feature, but a new presentation for existing features. Since Word is overstuffed with features people never see or use, packaging those features and making …

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The Future of Print Books and Legal Publishing

Jared Correia interviewed Ed Walters in the latest Legal Toolkit podcast, providing a glimpse into the future of legal publishing. It's a fun conversation for book geeks, and it serves up some great insights. For example, big global publishers (Thomson Reuters, Wolters Kluwer) have found print books to be a drag on their business, but this has …

Fastcase Adds More Secondary Content

The latest update in Fastcase's push for secondary content is its addition of Wolters Kluwers treatises. This is an important step, immediately giving Fastcase users alternatives to some of the biggest West and Lexis practice aids. Fastcase is playing with the big boys now. But for legal publishing as a whole, this is more of …

Fear Not the Em-Dash

Writers get jazzed up about punctuation, with good reason. Those dots and squiggles have a lot to do with the character and clarity of writing. And there's no mark that exemplifies the many uses of punctuation better than the em-dash. I was reminded of the em-dash by Jeremiah Shoaf of Typewolf, whose newsletter included a …

The Value of Editing

What is editing worth? Few people assume that having their work edited is worth it anymore. We have to show that it's worth significant time and money. Richard Adin at An American Editor has some suggestions in his most recent post, The Business of Editing: Explaining the Price of Editing. He points to this YouTube video as a …

Experiments with Daily Posting and Deep Work

I've been taking a break from posting here since I ended my one-week experiment with daily posting. I wanted to write more. I'm happiest when I write—even more so when I publish. It was a good experiment, but daily posting took too much time. I'd like to think I could fire off some pithy remarks …

Daily Wrighting—Dec. 13, 2017

On Focused Work I've been thinking a lot lately about eliminating distractions and getting focused work done. Attorney at Work has a nice little article with strategies. The go-to author, though, is Cal Newport. He calls this deep work, and argues it's the key to a successful career. A little while ago I read his …