Recently, I mentioned my obsession with RSS to a writer friend, and he was surprised by its capabilities. Maybe I’m too much of a salesman when it comes to nerdy tech things, but nonetheless, I piqued his interest. That got me thinking: what writer tools do I use and unintentionally keep to myself? Selfishly-kept secret #1: RSS. You’ve likely seen this icon: This represents a link to a specific RSS feed. I won’t go over what RSS is (for that, see here). Instead, how do I use it? Simply put, I use RSS to keep updated with the many, many lit sites whose perusal would otherwise clog my day. Instead of checking each individual site for new posts, I log into one feed aggregator site (I use Google Reader) and see a list of every new post from each of my RSS subscriptions (flip through the screenshots below for a…