links for 2008-12-28
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Kurt Vonnegut
Eight rules for writing fiction
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Worry is guilt's big brother. It is a larger source of stress and much harder to eliminate from our bad habits. It is in your best interest to live a worry-free life. Here's how.
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Moleskine Notebooks, Journals, and Date Books
For two centuries now Moleskine (mol-a-skeen'-a) journals have been the legendary notebook of artists, writers, intellectuals and travelers. -
There are tons of reference sites on the web that can help you land a job or write that poem, essay or story. Here is a list of the best 50 websites for writers.
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Fuzzmail records the act of writing and lets you send it as an email.
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Welcome to the short story section at east of the web. Find this month's featured stories above and in the nine genres. You can browse the library by genre or search it for a title, author or keyword. Clicking on an author's name lists all their stories along with further information and links. Stories can be read online, printed or downloaded for reading offline or on handheld devices.
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50 unique writing ideas.
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…about how to handle those things. It’s about starting with a good idea, developing it, and moving your story ahead until you reach the end.
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Enter text and the cliche finder will point out obvious cliches.
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One author shares his tried-and-true principles for making good writing better.
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How to Write With Style
by Kurt Vonnegut
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Write or Die is a web application that encourages writing by punishing the tendency to avoid writing. Start typing in the box. As long as you keep typing, you're fine, but once you stop typing, you have a grace period of a certain number of seconds and then there are consequences.
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Free articles on various writing topics from dialogue to setting and more.
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Here are the 10 essential online resources that you will bookmark and turn to again and again in your writing career. And the very best part—they’re all free.
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Real opening lines from romance novels.
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Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.
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Writerisms: overused and misused language. In more direct words: find 'em, root 'em out, and look at your prose without the underbrush.
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Roy Peter Clark from Poynter Institute has posted up 50 tools that can help you when you do any kinds of writing. This is a extensive list of writing tools, but by no mean you need to apply all of them when you do any writing.
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