Useful Stuffs
This is random assortment of this’s and that’s. You know.. stuff.
Fun Blogs
- Cake Wrecks When Cakes go bad and sometimes very good
- Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster You dissing my religion?
- QC RSS It's that mix of geek and sex and this time with coffee!
- The Art of Manliness Men will be men
- XKCD Because I am a geek at heart and I love humor with math and sex
Other useful sites
- C.M. Mayo's 5 minute Daily Writing Exercises Quick writing exercises. I try to do one a day.
- English Grammar 101 A site designed for home schooling, that is pretty useful for shining up the old rusty grammar.
- Evil Overlord List A kind of note to self list of things to remember for the active and overworked Evil Overlord. Also good for catching those stupid plot devices best not used.
- Heinlein Society Society dedicated to the memory and philosophy of Robert Heinlein, a childhood hero of mine.
- McMaster-Carr Have you ever had the urge to build a trans-continental pipline? Well you could with parts from McMaster-Carr. I LOVE these people, they have stainless steel screws in every size known to man and brit! I know that this is a writing blog, but really, check
- Persistance Unlimited Those nice guys who brought you Don't Break the Chain.
- Random Logline generator Can't figure out the high concept for that next novel.....
- Sonia's Personality Test I like to give my characters personality tests. Ok, really I like to pretend to be them and take personality tests. It's fun and I learn something about them. This is a nice short one that gives a Meyers-Briggs result.
- uOttawa Parts of Speech page Another good useful site for those of us with grammar questions.
- York Writers Sketch an Novel in an Hour It's a good exercise for plotters like me, helps to loosen me up when I'm in analysis paralysis.
Professional writing organizations
- Romance Writers of America All things romance.
- Science Fiction Writers of America Professional writing organization for SciFi and Fantasy Writers.
Tools I use
- Don't Break the Chain Cattle prod-level motivation
- Duotrope One of the best ways to track submissions on line that I have found. They have their fingers on the pulse of current offerings.
- Online Stopwatch A REALLY BIG time and stopwatch. Necessary for those Liberty Hall flash challenges!
- Scrivener simply one of the best tools for writing a complex document, ever.
- Super Notecard Being the over organized freak that I am, I find deconstructing complex stories in a notcard-like structure useful. this little $29 puppy rocks.
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