The Incomplete List of Internet Resources for Writers

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The Resource List for Writers

(The incomplete, yet beneficial list of Internet Writer Resources)

Although this list is of course, not a comprehensive one, I believe it is helpful for writers to have a list of resources in a single location.  

A few words of caution are needed. If you click on any of the links below, you may find that hours may pass unnoticed. You may be late for your appointments, or miss them entirely. 

The author of this post is in no way responsible for hours lost at work, or for any loss of productivity resulting from time spent to click on the links below. 

Caveat Emptor applies here, even though no purchase may have been made.  

The reader is wholly responsible for his or her own time, and the writer assumes no responsibility for your total immersion in the content found on the following websites.

Immerse away, and please enjoy!

http://thewritelife.com/100-best-websites-for-writers-2014/

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/28/50-free-resources-that-will-improve-your-writing-skills/

http://www.forwriters.com/references.html

http://www.writersdigest.com/writersresources

http://www.midwestbookreview.com/bookbiz/writers.htm

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/category/writer-resources

http://www.writerswrite.com/

http://blog.emilysuess.com/resources-writers/

http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Writers_Resources/

http://www4.uwm.edu/writingcenter/writers-resources.cfm

http://aalbc.com/writers/

http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/cla/departments/english/wrl/

http://library.wwu.edu/wc_resources

http://www.poewar.com/

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/links.html

http://writingcenters.org/resources/

http://www.literary-liaisons.com/resources.html

http://www.writingassist.com/resources/links/

http://writersresourcedirectory.com/

http://education-portal.com/articles/40_of_the_Best_Websites_for_Young_Writers.html

http://lynettebentonwriting.com/2014/01/the-100-best-websites-for-writers-2014/

http://www.freelancewritersonline.com/the-best-websites-for-writers/

http://www.dailyblogtips.com/top-resource-100-sites-writers/

http://www.slideshare.net/gordonowen1/i-go-20182552

https://www.pinterest.com/kamigarcia/websites-apps-for-writers/

http://www.writing.com/

http://www.collipsis.com/index.php/awards/awards-collipsis-won/256-14th-annual-101-best-websites-for-writers

http://www.writerscafe.org/

http://www.christymossburg.com/14-best-websites-writers/

http://drosophiliac.com/2012/10/writing-better-than-you-normally-do.html

http://thejohnfox.com/2012/09/the-ultimate-guide-to-writing-better-than-you-normally-do/

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/34-writing-tips-that-will-make-you-a-better-writer/

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OK, this blog is getting a bit lonely, so I wanted to add a discussion of a blog post that I found thoroughly entertaining.  I could easily spend an hour or more on it. Let me know if you feel the same.

Jon Morrow, is an accomplished blogger, and blogger trainer. I'm not sure I agree with his proposition that you should spend upwards of 20 hours on your blog posts.  (I confess to have spent more than an hour on a single post - which I feel is probably excessive, given my time contraints).  In any event, Morrow's latest post is filled with links to some extraordinarily interesting blogs that should not be missed.

Jon Morrow is not just a blogger.  He has turned blogging into a craft, over which he is a master.

101 Writing Resources That'll Take You From Stuck to Unstoppable.

This is the triumph of the Internet! I am recommending his blog post mainly because of his links.  I'm not saying his prose is not worthly of attention, but his links .....  wow!  I hope you feel the same way, and let me know if you do, or do not.

(Actually, I have one more confession, I have not yet visited all the links on the post).  It is sort of a work in process, but I wanted to let readers know about this resource as soon as possible.  Everything is for the benefit of the reader on this blog, "everyone knows that".  (Like in the Geico commercials). Note:  the preceding was a non-commercial non-endorsement of a known trademarked brand name.

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Online Promotion - words we don't know

Hi all. I haven't seen the group for a while, but when I run across something interesting I like to post it here. This is an article I ran across at
http://havemacwillblog.com/2009/04/11/10-words-you-dont-know/ It is reproduced in it's entirety for you below.

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Some people who find this web page will surely know one or two of these words, because that’s just the way of the world. But most of you will not know these words and, to be honest, you will not find them hard to forget. Here’s the list of ten, randomly selected from a much longer list of obscure and strange words:

1. Anopisthography. This refers to the practice of writing on just one side of the paper. When I have a notebook that opens left-to-right I’m not an anopisthographist, but when the pages are bound at the top, I convert to anopisthography immediately. I’ll bet most of you are the same. I’ll also bet that all of you suffer from “post-it anopisthorgraphy.” Only a curmudgeonly pinchpenny would fail to do so.

2. Quomodocunquize. Quomodocunquize is a word for recessionary times. I’m hoping it will see much greater usage now that so many of us are impecunious. It means: to make money by any possible means. Naturally that includes both immoral and amoral means, but could also include ingenious means, such as making money from Google Ads by doing nothing more than blogging about unusual words.

3. Jentacular. What could be more jentacular than the smell of bacon and eggs cooking on the stove and the rustle of cornflakes as you pour them into the bowl. The answer is: nothing, really, as long as you live in America or the UK. However, if you live in Scandinavia, such things are not jentacular at all - although the sight of sliced cheeses and cold meats on a plate certainly are. Jentacular means relating to breakfast.

4. Pigmentocracy. From the presidential perspective, 2008 saw the end of pigmentocracy in America - pimentocracy being government by those of one skin color. To noone’s surprise, pigmentocracy tends to be the rule in most countries. The US is now one of the few exceptions.

5. Squaliform. This means shaped like a shark. It’s the kind of word you don’t get to use very often, even if you know it. All sharks are, by definition, squaliform. But not many other denizens of the deep are similarly shaped. Also, should you actually be sailing in shark infested waters, and you see the cliché sharks fin sticking out of the wave, you’re more likely to explete the presence of the shark than calmly pronounce “I believe there’s something squaliform out there.”

6. Quickhatch. A quickhatch is not what it sounds like (to me); a relatively premature chick emerging from its egg. It’s something else entirely. Hugh Jackman portrays a human quickhatch in the X-Men movies, with the latest movie in the series being very specifically about Hugh Jackman’s acquisition of his quickhatchness. A quickhatch is a wolverine. Apparently the word derives from an American Indian word.

7. Gossypibom. I love really really specialized words and gossypibom is a great exemplar. A gossypibom is: a surgical sponge accidentally left inside a patient’s body. It’s a surprising fact that patients occasionally leave the operating theater with a little souvenir from the surgical team. Statistics suggest that it occurs about 30 times per week in the US and a couple of times a week in the UK (but they do more operations per person in the US.) Things left behind include swabs, clips, screws and surgical implements. Only the first on this list is actually a gossypibom.

8. Noxal. When people discover, to their dismay, that they are the proud owner of a gossypibom, they are likely to regard it as a noxal thing. As a word, “noxal” has, on occasion, been used to mean noxious, but the meaning of this adjective is properly a little more specialized than that. It pertains to damage or wrongful injury from an object (or possibly an animal belonging to someone else.)

9. Hypothecary. I’m sure you’re well aware what an apothecary is. It’s an alternative word for pharmacist. A hypothecary, however, is not a hyperactive pharmacist. It’s much more topical than that. A hypothecary is a mortgagee - someone who loans money to house buyers. Under normal circumstances hypothecaries simply make a living by gathering interest payments from the mortgage. In recent times hypothecaries bundled up tranches of property loans into derivatives and sold them to banks all over the world. This created an unsustainable financial bubble. The bursting of the bubble gave rise to a stock market crash and a huge increase in unemployment. This left many people with little option but to quomodocunquize.

10. Xenobombulation. I’ve got a white paper to write right now, and I really should get on with it, but I’m xenobombulating again. Xenobombulation is the act of avoiding ones duties, malingering, even feigning illness or pulling some stunt like writing a blog post when you really should be getting on with real work.

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NJ Writers Group - The Spirited Goldfinch

What are the key elements to an effective Online Promotion ?

As of March 2009, Google reports that their index contains over 25 Billion web pages. In addition, Google engineers have discovered over 1 trillion unique Internet addresses. The Internet is truly a vast, (and rapidly growing), repository of the world's information.

There are approximately 6.7 billion people in the world today. Currently, only a fraction, or about about 1.5 Billion have access to the Internet. The distribution favors Asia, with 657 million, Europe with 393 million, North America with 251 million, Latin America with 173 million, and the rest of the world with a little over 100 million.

Although Asia has the largest number of users, the percentage of users with access to the Internet is also the lowest. Only 17% of the population of Asia is online. Japan (72%), and Korea (74%), have high percentages of their population on the Internet, but China and India both lag far behind. In Europe the percentage is nearly 50%, and in North America it is over 75%. Asia is clearly the area with the most potential for growth.

Certainly the size of the web at 25 billion is impressive, but more importantly, how can your customers find your web site on the Internet out of the billions of web pages that exist ? Regardless of whether you are promoting a book, a product, or a service on the Internet, the principles of online promotion are the same.

It doesn't matter how big the Internet grows, your customers will probably find your web site using one of the major search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com, etc.

The most popular search engine on the Internet is Google, by quite a wide margin. Over 63 % of Internet searches are made through Google, according to recent information.

If you want to get good search results on Google, the basis of any online promotion should first consider the keywords by which your site can be found. This is one of the most important things to investigate. It is worthwhile to carefully consider the keywords you select when an online promotion is created.

Think of it in terms of advertising. Every word, every image in advertising is carefully crafted to create an impression in the minds of potential prospects. The "impression" on Google is not based on image, or on aesthetics, or clever ad copy, but solely on quality content using keywords. That is the critical importance of keywords on Google and the other search engines.

Do the keywords that you plan to target generate a significant amount of monthly traffic on Google ? Obscure keywords will not generate significant traffic for your web site.

Another key component is to use these keywords to create original written content. You may not feel that you are a professional writer, but you do not need to be one. Believe it or not, there is no ranking on Google that gives credit for writing ability. In reality, if you own your own business, who can create content in your own unique way for your particular product better than you can ?

Quality content sprinkled with keywords is the fertilizer that will grow good results on Google searches. Since spring has now arrived, it is definitely the time to plant some good keyword seeds for your business on the Internet.

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The Spirited Goldfinch - Links for Writers

Hello all.
Do you like this map of NJ ? I thought I would add an image to the blog, just to see how it looks.


Here are a few web sites that might help in your writing.

This website updates it's main page twice weekly. This week's article is on the 10 most important web resources for writers. www.writetodone.com

http://www.languageisavirus.com/ you may find interesting. There is a section on how to overcome writer's block. Another entry is a character name generator, if you are looking for an appropriate name for one of your characters.

Also see:

http://preciseedit.com

http://www.planetebook.com/

http://www.triond.com/ - get paid (small amounts), for writing articles.


http://www.oneword.com/


http://www.webook.com/911writersblock

http://www.webook.com/WritingTips/index

By the way. Whenever you post anything on-line, regardless of whether it is on a blog, forum post, web site, etc., don't forget to include the following line:

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and The Spirited Goldfinch, NJ Writer's Group, as well.


Happy Writing !

John Lombaerde

NJ Writer's Group

Hello all,

Every time someone posts to this blog, Google will search the page and add it to it's index.

Note: You can verify this by going to Google and do a search for "NJ writers group", then click on the top of the page under the "more" title, under blogs. You will see the latest posting there on the first page.

When you post here make sure to use words "NJ writers group" in your post and "The Spirited Goldfinch". You can highlight "The Spirited Goldfinch", and then click on the chain icon at the top of the editor to type in http://www.lulu.com/content/5548827 to make a "hot link" that will go directly to the purchase page where our anthology can be found.

Check the following link to verify. The Spirited Goldfinch

You can also add tags in the label section at the bottom of the editor as well to help the search engines find our page. Note: if you have forums or other blogs that you post to, put the previous information into the post. That will increase the links to our blog as well.

Happy Writing !


John Lombaerde

NJ Writer's Group Blog

Well, this is the first post on the newly created NJ Writer's Group Blog. Welcome to this forum one and all ! For those of you who have never blogged before, it can really be a fun and productive type of writing. Most blogs on the Internet have a certain off-the-cuff style of writing, and are usually outspoken and not without a bit of humor and wit. I hope we can follow in that tradition from God's point of view. After all, who has a better sense of humor than God in this Universe ? When God laughs, good sprit world, creation, and saints on earth laugh with him as well.

Just to review, these are the guidelines that Mr. Bob Beebe sent to us recently.

As we are now living in the Age After the Coming of Heaven and as we are called to become Owners of Cheon Il Guk, God’s Heavenly Nation, we have come together as writers to form a group for the purpose of creating literature appropriate to God’s Kingdom. Such literature may comprise fiction and nonfiction, short stories and novels, prose and poetry. It may take the form of picture books, chapter books, magazine articles, or self-published materials. In whatever form, our writing shall be for the purpose of inspiring children and adults to celebrate God’s love and truth, ourselves as His sons and daughters, our families as schools of love, nature as God’s gift to us, and the world as one family under God, our Heavenly Parent.

As a group we shall encourage each other in whatever writing projects we are working on, giving and seeking constructive criticism for the purpose of improving and elevating our work to the highest possible standard.

Our goal for this year is to produce one book to which each group member will submit at least one piece of finished writing. Book title and theme ?


This blog is available to writers who agree with the preceding statement of purpose and is by invitation only.

Thanks for your support. I hope we can use this forum to more easily communicate with each other. Thanks to you all and God Bless everyone ! Happy Blogging !

Please send me e-mail if you have any questions about his blog. If you would like to become an author, just set-up your own gmail e-mail address, (type gmail into a Google search and follow the simple steps). Send me an e-mail at jonlomb@gmail.com, and I will add you to the author's list.

Thank you and Happy Blogging !


John Lombaerde