Though some might treat grammar as dead serious business, that's not a particularly fun way to learn it. Brush up on your grammar skills with these light-hearted but educational resources.

Windows/Linux: RedNotebook is a personal journaling tool that feels like a hybrid between a wiki and a blog — complete with tagging, spell check, text formatting, embeddable media and more.

BoingBoing blogger and sci-fi author Cory Doctorow admits the internet can be an "attention black hole", but the prolific scribe learned how to actually write while staying open to the wealth of the web.

The more information you stick into one email, the more likely your recipient is going to lose focus on what's important. Here are a few ways to keep your email relevant to the task at hand.

Notepad++ is the most popular text editor for Windows, and we love its speed and power, but it's even better once you dig a little deeper. Here's a look at the many ways you can use Notepad++ more effectively.

Although writing in iOS might seem troublesome, with faster fingers or a Bluetooth keyboard you can actually get a lot done. Whether it's just a note, your next novel or new screenplay, here are the apps you'll need.

Good thoughts can come from anywhere, at any time. So can edits to your best writing work. Keep your text close at hand, and ideas easy to add, with these great writing, note-taking and idea-gathering apps for Android.

Digging into NaNoWriMo? Working on something much shorter? Either way, Kurt Vonnegut Jr has a few tips for your characters, your sentences and how you treat your readers. It's an oldie but a goodie, shared by reader Zan.

No matter your command of the English language, we all have trouble defining, pronouncing or even remembering certain words, which makes writing tough. Here are some of the best tools to help you out.

We all get tons of work email a day, and our inboxes can get cluttered in the blink of an eye. Make sure your emails actually have a purpose (and don't get skipped over) by making them actionable.

It's easy to become attached to your words, claiming ownership to their arrangement on the page and to the phrases you create. But how much do you really own what you write? How much have you, technically, plagiarised?

Authonomy is a writing-focused social network conceived by publishing house HarperCollins. Community members upload their work, review and rate the work of others, and polish their writing for potential publication.

Some of us love using technology to write, but as we highlighted yesterday, the best writing system is the one that stays out of your way. Author Patrick McLean discusses why, despite his love for tech, he sticks with longhand when writing.

Spellcheck is handy but automatic correction is an even more seamless way to fix mistakes as you type. Today we look at two applications that correct your spelling errors, key transposing and other errors on the fly.

Most of us don't want to read through three paragraphs of text when we could get the message in one, but that doesn't mean we're not guilty of inflicting the same lack of email concision on others. Here are some helpers.

It's easy to obsess more about your writing setup than your actual writing, but when inspiration strikes and you actually want to — you know — write something, nothing should stand between you and putting your thoughts on paper, digital or otherwise.

Learning the rules of language is important, otherwise it can be pretty difficult to communicate effectively. But if you're hung up on perfect form and accuracy you can end up impeding your own creativity and the development of language in general.

You know those emails you read once, read again and still aren't sure what the sender's trying to say? It's annoying, right? We all recognise a terrible email when we get one, but we're often guilty of the same email sins ourselves.