Good course at Lynda http://www.lynda.com/Business-Business-Skills-tutorials/Writing-Fundamentals-Craft-Story/89962-2.html[^] Good book from S.King http://www.amazon.com/On-Writing-Anniversary-Edition-Memoir/dp/1439156816[^]

I installed Windows 8 Enterpise evaluation and I hated it in the beginning and wanted to go back to Win7 which is still installed on another partition. I decided to give Win8 a chance and use it for a few days. Now it's been 17 days and I like it. I don't boot into Win7 any more. I use Win8 for web development, Visual Studio 2012, SQL Server 2012. Win8 is fast. I tried SourceFilmmaker on Win7 and 8 and it's more responsive under Win8, it was an obvious benchmark, I have a 4 years old laptop. I don't use Metro apps, they don't belong on desktop, just ignore them. The Start screen is fine. I don't miss the start button, just drop your mouse into the corner. The only thing that moved too far is the power button, before I could hibernate in two clicks, now it's not so convenient. Anyone who's sceptical give it a go, try to do work in desktop mode, forget about metro, stick with Win8 for a week, overcome some initial frustration because the cheese has been moved and you will like it. It's a good fast OS. Tomorrow your grandma or granddaughter will be using it because they just bought a new PC, you wouldn't want to be limping behind and not being able to help them learning new tricks. Overcome your ignorance, catch the cutting edge wave :-)