Writer David Moldawer's favorite tools

My guest this week on the Cool Tools show is David Moldawer. David is a Brooklyn-based writer and book collaborator who spent more than a decade as an acquiring editor in New York City publishing. He was an editor on a number of books I've written. He also writes a weekly newsletter for nonfiction authors and experts who aspire to be authors called The Maven Game.

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FocusmateFocusmate has been transformative for me over the last few months. Its very simple. It pairs you with a random person via webcam and you work together for 50 minutes at a time. So its like having a virtual coworking partner. So what happens is you have a calendar and you pick a slot. Lets say I want to work at 9:00 AM itll say Youre working with John or Bill or Melinda at 9:00 AM, and at that time I click start and it brings up a typical webcam, video-chat-kind-of window, and the other persons there sitting at a desk and Ill say Hi, what are you working on? Theyll say, Oh Im grading something because Im a teacher. And Ill say, Okay great. Im doing some editing because Im a book collaborator, and thats it. And then well just sit there and work with the webcam going. Nobody really watches each other. Read the rest