2022 in Review

 

Happy New Year! First, thank you for supporting this blog. It’s a labor of love, and if I can help authors in any way, I’m eternally grateful. We covered many apps over 2022. I choose apps that highlight various aspects of our craft—planning, writing, marketing, and self-care.

Here’s how last year broke down:

Planning

• Easy Notes, a simple note app https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/01/how-to-use-easy-notes.html
• One Stop for Writers. This app has several uses beyond planning your story. There are tons of writing resources. https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/03/how-to-use-one-stop-for-writers.html
• This Person Does Not Exist, an app that generates character pictures. https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/06/this-person-does-not-exist.html
• Art Breeder, an app to generate pictures of characters. https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/06/art-breeder.html
• Character Generator, an app that creates pictures for characters but also has space for details about them. https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/06/character-generator.html
• Various reference sites around the web https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/07/reference.html https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/07/dictionaries.html https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/07/atlases.html https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/08/encyclopedias.html https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/08/almanacs.html https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/08/reference-for-writers.html

Writing

• Campfire, a fantastic world-building writing app https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/02/how-to-use-campfire.html
• Dabble, a simpler version of Scrivener without all the unneeded features. https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/04/how-to-dabble.html
• Wattpad, a fanfiction/unpublished site for posting your writing. https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/08/how-to-wattpad.html
• A couple of posts about using Microsoft Word https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/10/editing-with-word.html https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/10/formatting-with-word.html

Marketing

• SmarterQueue, an in-depth app for scheduling social media posts https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/03/how-to-use-smarterqueue.html
• Book Funnel, an excellent promotion app for sending out ARCs, building newsletters, and more. https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/05/how-to-use-book-funnel.html
• Weebly, an app to build websites with a tie to Square software. https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/09/how-to-weebly.html
• Twitter Alternatives https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/11/mastodon.html https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/11/hive-social.html https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/12/countersocial.html
• StoryGraph, a book tracking app (placed here because of the community, giveaways, and challenges.) https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/12/how-to-storygraph.html

Self-Care

• Gratitude, a self-care app with a journal, planning board, and advice. https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/05/how-to-use-gratitude.html
• KeePass, a security app to keep passwords safe (and your sanity, too). https://appsforwriters.blogspot.com/2022/11/how-to-use-keepass.html

 

Links go to the How-To post. Each app also has a basic summary and a “For Authors” post as well.

Next year, we will continue with relevant apps, helpful tips, and updates.

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