Internet Resources for Writers

Kind of depressing, but not surprising.

I hadn't updated the LOW PAY markets list since forever. In these times of magazines and newspapers folding, I thought it was time.

Realize that low pay markets are usually low pay because they're running on a shoestring and writers are being paid out of the publisher's checking account.

Not surprising, but ... about half the list went into the trash bin because the magazines/zines are no longer in operation or are no longer paying or are no longer saying whether they're paying or not or only let subscribers submit and then pay a dinky bit at that.

Two magazines (STRANGE HORIZONS and TRANSITIONS ABROAD) graduated to the regular paying markets lists, which I will update soon as well. A couple more had increased their pay, but not so much that they got off the LOWPAY list.

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Internet Resources - Writers Resources - Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers - A Writer's Life

· Book Buying · Chocolate · Creativity Nudges · Games & Distractions · Gifts · Insurance · Journal Keeping · Pens · Time Management & Procrastination · Writer's Block · Writers' Supplies · Writing Exercises

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Internet Resources - Writers Resources - Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers - Fiction

Unsorted · Erotica · Fiction · Historical Fiction · Horror · Mystery/Crime Fiction · Romance · SFF & World Building · Video Games & RPG Universes

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Internet Resources - Writers Resources - Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers - Other

Unsorted · Anime and Manga · Writing Business Plans &c. · Children's Writers' Resources · Christian Writers · Comics, Cartooning & Animation · Editing · Grant & Proposal Writing · Greeting Cards · Haiku & Renku · Humor & Comedy · Playwriting · Poetry · Screenwriting & Scriptwriting · Songwriting · Translation & Subtitling · Young Writers

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Internet Resources - Writers Resources - Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers - Writers' Newsletters & Periodicals

Unsorted · Newsletters · Periodicals

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Updated link to Journalist's Toolbox.

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Internet Resources - Writers Resources - Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers - Word Stuff

Unsorted · Assorted Information · Experts · Maps · Names & Naming · News Links · Online Texts · Research & Reference · Search Engines · Tools · Warnings & Rumors Unsorted · Copyediting · Dictionaries · Indexing · Quotations [020071230]· Style & Grammar · Word Stuff

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Internet Resources - Writers Resources - Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers - Reference & Research

Unsorted · Assorted Information · Experts · Maps · Names & Naming · News Links · Online Texts · Research & Reference · Search Engines · Tools · Warnings & Rumors

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Internet Resources - Writers Resources - Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers - History Reference & Research

Unsorted · Biography · Dates & History · Historical Research & Reference · Women in History

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Internet Resources - Writers Resources - Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers - Non-Fiction

Unsorted · Commentary, Essays, & Columnists · Copywriting · Food Writing · Journalism · Journalism & Freelance Jobs · Op-Ed · Public Relations · Religion · Science & Medical Writing · Speech Writing · Tech Writing · Television & Radio · Travel Writing · Web writing

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Internet Resources - Writers Resources - Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers - Hodge-Podge

Unclassified · Multi-faceted · Writers On Writing · Writing Links with a Northern California Focus

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2:26 PM|| Permalink | |

Set up a new page for BUSINESS - marketing, promotion, & publicity which includes Book Signings · Book Trailers · Marketing, Promotion, & Publicity · Your Website.

The last two subsets of links were taken from the BUSINESS page and put on their own page because the business links were getting too fat.

I'd earlier split off /submissions and markets/ from BUSINESS for the same reason.

I've clicked through all the links on the /marketing/ page to make sure they're current and added more links as well. I also split off the book signing links from the general promotion set and added a new set of links on book trailers.

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The site had its millionth hit this morning. I've swopped the old GoStats hit counter out and replaced it with a SiteMeter meter. The new meter will track both visits and page views for me, but I plan to just show visits on the site stats that show to the ordinary Joe user.

Clicked through and updated links for the Networking & Connections page this morning.

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

Hit counter stands at 999439. When it rolls over to zeroes, I plan to swop it for a different counter.

Mercy me. A million hits. Who woulda thunk back when that this day would come to pass?

BUSINESS- submissions & markets
A WRITER'S LIFE

were checked and updated yesterday. More to follow.

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Internet Resources - Writers Resources - Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers - Business: Submissions & Markets

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Writers' Guidelines for Yoga Journal

Yoga Journal covers the practice and philosophy of yoga. In particular we welcome articles on the following themes:

1. Leaders, spokespersons, and visionaries in the yoga community;
2. The practice of hatha yoga;
3. Applications of yoga to everyday life (e.g., relationships, social issues, livelihood, etc.);
4. Hatha yoga anatomy and kinesiology, and therapeutic yoga;
5. Nutrition and diet, cooking, and natural skin and body care.

Payment varies, depending on length, depth of research, etc. We pay within 90 days of final acceptance: $800 to $2000 for features, $400 to $800 for departments, $25 to $100 for Om Page and Well-Being, and $200 to $250 for book reviews.

No unsolicited e-sub.

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Writers' Guidelines for Escape Pod, a podcast genre 'zine.

EP is a genre 'zine. We're looking for science fiction and fantasy. Please don't send us anything that doesn't fit those descriptions. And by the way, we mean SF/F on a level that matters to the plot. Your story about a little boy receiving a balloon before his heart transplant may be touching literature, but it probably isn't something we're interested in, even if you edit it so that the balloon's an alien and the heart came from Satan.

(UPDATE: As of August 2006, Escape Pod no longer runs horror. We've spun that off into a sister podcast, Pseudopod, edited by Mur Lafferty and Ben Philips. We do not share our slushpiles, so please send them your horror stories directly. It's a great podcast to listen to, by the way, if you like to be disturbed.)

We're primarily interested in two lengths of fiction, which we've dubbed (somewhat arbitrarily) 'short fiction' and 'flash fiction.'

PAYS: $100 for short fiction (2-6K wds) and $20 for flash fiction (up to 1K wds. "sweet spot": 500 wds.)

[...]

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List of paying poetry markets from sfpoetry.com

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Writers' guidelines for South Florida Parenting.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Most South Florida Parenting articles are purchased from freelance writers. In a typical issue, readers will find a variety of regular departments: Out & About, Baby Basics, Preteen Power, Family Money, Family Health and more. We also run feature articles of 800-2,000 words on topics of pertinence to South Florida parents. Features require careful research, independent reporting and well-developed interviews with South Florida sources.

Our focus is on our three-county market and we prefer features that use sources and settings in South Florida. Assignments, when given, go almost exclusively to writers who live in southeast Florida. However, we do consider insightful, captivating essays and features from outside our area, particularly those that deal with universal themes and issues. All stories must include clearly identified, real sources. Articles or essays that use only first names, composites or fictional examples will not be considered.

We welcome your submission of material previously published outside South Florida, if offered to us on an exclusive basis in southeast Florida. No submissions or queries that are offered to other publications in southeast Florida will ever be considered. We do not buy work from writers who are published by our competitors. For reprint offers, send either typed manuscripts or clips and let us know where the material appeared.

E-sub only.
$150-$300 for first publication
$30-$50 for reprints, including online rights.
You *must* not submit work to any other publications in South Florida.

(n.b. The wording is weird: do they mean must not submit *this* piece of work or *any* piece of work? ... If you're interested in the market, might behoove you to check ...)

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10:01 AM|| Permalink | |

Checked and updated all links on Business.

The page includes over one hundred links classified in subsections:

Unsorted
Agents
Book Publishers
Copyright
E-Publishing
Legal, Contracts, & Taxes
Marketing, Sales, Promotion, & Publicity
Print-On-Demand Publishing
Self-publishing
Your Website

Replaced some broken links. Added a few. Commented out links to my articles on Web design and copyright that I wrote for Computer Bits, which is no more. I need to bring those articles onto either this site or towse.com some day, now that the Computer Bits online archives are no more.

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10:29 AM|| Permalink | |

Checked and updated all links on Reference & Research.

The page includes over two hundred links classified in subsections:

Unsorted
Assorted Information
Experts
Maps
Names & Naming
News Links
Online Texts
Research & Reference
Search Engines including image search and video search engines
Tools
Warnings & Rumors

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1:05 PM|| Permalink | |

Checked and updated all links on Business/Submissions.

The page includes subsections:

Grants, Prizes, & Contests - lists
Markets - market listing resources on the Web
Scams - known scams and how to avoid them
Submitting - information on manuscript formats, queries, writing a synopsis and more.

I also added a separate header for our Miss Snark's blog.

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2:58 PM|| Permalink | |

Spent five hours updating Online Magazine Guidelines S-Z

Sadly, more than just a couple magazines had bit the dust since the last time this page got a thorough check through.

All links and info on the page are accurate as of today.

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Updated all links on the OTHER page while I was checking the screenwriting links and adding the new manga/anime linkset.

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Added some links to anime/manga sites to OTHER.

Sent a note to the family anime/manga 'ru to ask for more suggestions.

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Updated all links on History Reference page.

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4:38 PM|| Permalink | |

Modified the blog template slightly
Checked through and updated as necessary every Publishers market link.
Checked through and updated as necessary every Agents market link.

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5:16 PM|| Permalink | |

Added a page listing the pages that mention internet-resources.com/writers:

Dehanna Bailee's Basic Guide to Fee Based Print On Demand Publishing Services : Informative and Interesting Links
Black Stump - Writing/Texts
Burry Man Writers Center - markets center
Butterknife Books - Literary material
California Writers Club - Berkeley branch
Cat Vacuuming Society (CVS) - writing related links
Barb Chandler's Links of Interest to Writers and Journalists: Markets
Children's Writers Marketplace - Margaret Shauers
Cyberseniors.org
site review: "This compendium of online Writers' Resources is worth its weight in gold."
The Electric Eclectic
Funds for Writers - links: How-To Sites
Gotta Write Network - History: Research: The Internet and General Historical Links
Inky Girl - Debbie Ridpath Ohi's weblog for writers
Journalist's Toolbox - Writing Resources
Liz Krawczyk's Book Frontier - blog entry 2002-12-11
Madscreenwriter's writing links from dvcafe.
Marylaine Block - Neat, New Stuff
Northern California Writers & Artists - (NCWA) - links
One Person Library - Links to sites of interest to SOLOs/OPLs: Found On The Web
Heather Elizabeth Peterson's Dusk Darkling - Links for Fiction Writers on the History of Love
Pikes Peak Library District - Reference Sources
J. Thompson's Planet Quill - Resources Sites for writers
Paula Roe's Web site - links to more links
Transedit.st - Internet Tools
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Reference Sources: Quotations
University of Toledo Libraries - Suhasini Kumar's Internet Resources for Writers
Vanda Products.com - education links
Virginia Public Library, Virginia, MN. - WebWise Links: Arts & Entertainment
Winning Writers - poetry links
The Writer Gazette - Writer Resource Links
The Writers Block, Inc.: Resource Directory - General Links
Writer's Write resource links: General Writing Resources
Writing-World.com writing links: General Writing Sites

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Revamped the entry page at http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/ and fiddled with the boilerplate at the bottom of each page.

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Adding a separate page of links to publishers' submission guidelines

http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/markets/online-guidelinesPUBLISHERS.htm

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Added this month

A multi-page collection of links to online writers guideline pages. Some of the markets do not accept e-submissions, but all of them have their guidelines online, so you can easily check out the market and the writer reqs.

The collection has a front page with some miscellaneous markets and contests on it, a page full of links to guidelines from "no pay" markets -- markets that don't pay cold hard cash for submissions-- and a page full of links to guidelines for "low pay" markets -- markets paying less than $0.05/wd or $25/article/story. The other pages are alpha lists of paying markets that pay more than "low pay," some of them up to $2K for essays and $4K+ for articles.

http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/markets/online-guidelines.htm

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Just added

A new religion writing links section on the Non-fiction writing page.
http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/wrlinks-nonfiction.htm#religion

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Updating broken links and found that Dr. L. Kip Wheeler's page Literary Terms and Meanings had moved when he moved from UOregon to Gonzaga.

The rest of his site is chock full of information, devoted to Comp-Grammar-Research-Literature due to his educational bent. I found a huge cache of useful information for writers, even if they aren't in one of Dr. Wheeler's classes.

How about this one? http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/wheeler/gram_passive_voice.html - Wheeler's rant titled Passive Voice (Why It is Evil and How to Recognize It.)

Or this one? http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/wheeler/resource_medieval_lit.html - Medieval Lit resources, with links to "Heresy Handout: A Convenient Guide to Eternal Damnation" (.pdf), Middle English Vocabulary, Numerology (.pdf), "The Seven Deadly Sins: A Convenient Guide to Eternal Damnation" and more.

This site can eat up your afternoon, if you're not careful.

This link and more like it can be found in the [WordStuff|Unsorted] section of http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

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11:24 AM|| Permalink | |

Just added

Robert Harris - Virtual Salt - Evaluating Internet Research Sources
http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm

This link and more like it can be found in the [Reference|Unsorted] section of http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

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Also added these links:

FirstGov - official government gateways (state and Federal)
http://www.firstgov.gov/. FirstGov links to government resources across a wide range of subject areas and needs.

St. Ambrose University - Best Information on the Net
http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/alpha.htm. BIOTN is sorted alphabetically, by major and by "hot topics" for papers. The "Art" section, f'rex, is further divvied up to sort the links by Art Education, Art Images, Events and Competitions, Exhibits, Galleries, Museums, Indexes to Art Resources, Individual Artists, Photography Sites and St. Ambrose University Art Department. Wonderful resource.

These links and more like them can be found in the [Reference|Search Engines] section of http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

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10:24 AM|| Permalink | |

Added a link to Marylaine Block's excellent What is NOT on the Net to the collection of "how cool are libraries or what?" box on the intro page.
http://www.qconline.com/myword/notnet.html

Block's Web site is a wonderful resource. Added a link to http://www.marylaine.com/ (Librarian Without Walls) in the "Unsorted" section of the [Reference] page.

Also added a link to David Novak's excellent Information Research FAQ
http://www.scinet.org/spire/faq.htm. For some reason the Spire Project Web site is not available, so this link is through the scinet.org mirror site.

These links and more like them can be found in the [Reference] section of http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

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10:14 AM|| Permalink | |

UMich - Making of America
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/ - primary texts from antebellum thru reconstruction both magazines and books. e.g. de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, translated by Henry Reeve. Read page by page or search text.

UMich - Humanities Text Initiative
http://www.hti.umich.edu/index-all.html - everything from travel books on Bosnia to Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry (1888-1897) from the Library of Congress.

This link and more like it can be found in the [Reference|Online Texts] section of http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

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10:05 AM|| Permalink | |

Looking for factoids and trivia to trigger your inspiration?

Check out Today in Science http://www.todayinsci.com/

Today (17 Aug 2002) is the 401st anniversary of Fermat's birth, the 204th anniversary of Hodgkin's birth, as well as ... the anniversary of the discovery of Phobos, the anniversary of the wrench patent, the anniversary of the start of Robert Fulton's steam boat round-trip from NYC to Albany and ...

"In 1896, the first pedestrian to be knocked down and killed by a motor vehicle in Britain was Mrs Bridget Driscoll of Croydon, Surrey, who was hit by a car travelling at 4 mph."

This link and more like it can be found in the [Reference|Dates & History] section of http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

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For word lovers

Ruth Pettis - Word Safari - a browse through words known and unknown
http://home.earthlink.net/~ruthpett/safari/orient.htm

Ruth Pettis - Megalist of Word Links - a huge collection of links to word sites: dictionaries, etymology, grammar, spelling, word games, common errors.
http://home.earthlink.net/~ruthpett/safari/megalist.htm

These links and others of a similar ilk can be found in the [Word Stuff|Word Stuff] section of http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

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Sources and Experts from the Special Libraries Association News Division. "This list is divided into three parts: sites that are useful for one-stop shopping for experts on a wide variety of topics; good places to look for authors and editors; and organizations arranged alphabetically by specialty area."
http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/experts.html

Also included in the SLA News Division site are
Newspaper archives - USAn
http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.html

List of newspapers in Nexis, Factiva/DJ, or DIALOG believed to have missing archives
http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/AllNewspapers.htm

Reference links with national focus
http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/national.html
by state
http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/states.html

Resources: Usenet News Groups and mailing lists for journalists as well as Web resources
http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/resource.html

The Online Books Page - 16K+ listings of books available online
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

These links and others of a similar ilk can be found in the [Reference & Research] section of http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

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1:29 PM|| Permalink | |

Added a link to the [Reference & Research|Search Engines|Image Searches] section of the Web site. The links now on board follow:

Kartoo - Visual Web Search
http://www.kartoo.com/

Artcyclopedia.com - 7500+ artists - 32K links
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

Artnet.com - 13K artists - 36K works - Grove Dictionary of Art
http://www.artnet.com/

Carol Gerten - Fine Art--A Virtual Art Museum: FAQ, Scans
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/faq.htm

Google Image Search
http://images.google.com/

Alta Vista Multimedia Search w/ Rolling Stone
http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/simage

Ditto - "always on" filtering
http://www.ditto.com/

Picsearch - "always on" filtering
http://www.picsearch.com

Lycos Multimedia Search - "never on" filtering
http://multimedia.lycos.com/

Life Magazine covers - 1936-1972
http://www.life.com/Life/search/covers

QuikShowBiz - Art News, Art Search, and Art Links
http://quickfound.net/showbiz/art_news_and_links_index.html

QuikShowBiz - Photo Search Engines and Photo News
http://quickfound.net/showbiz/photo_search_and_news_index.htm

PURCHASE ART/PRINTS

BestPriceArt.com
http://www.bestpriceart.com/

BareWalls.com - 150K posters & prints
http://www.barewalls.com/

Art.com - posters, photos, fine art
http://www.art.com/

These links and others of a similar ilk can be found in the [Reference & Research|Search Engines] section of http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

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10:02 AM|| Permalink | |

Added two links re finding jobs online:

Sunoasis - Writer's Guide to Finding Jobs Online tutorial
http://www.sunoasis.com/tutorial.html
added to both the [Business|Markets] section and the [Nonfiction|Journalism and Freelance Jobs] section

Sunoasis
http://www.sunoasis.com/
added to the [Nonfiction|Journalism and Freelance Jobs]

These links and others can be found in http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

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1:18 PM|| Permalink | |

Updated and added to links for writing workshops and "how to critique":

SFFW - Guidelines for Critiquing
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/sfwwmoder/sfwwguide.htm

Victory Crayne - How to Critique Fiction
http://www.crayne.com/howcrit.html

Victory Crayne - How to Succeed in an Online Writing Workshop
http://www.crayne.com/succeed.html

Trace Online Writing Centre - UK
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk

AOL - Science Fiction Writers Workshop
http://hometown.aol.com/sfwwmoder/index.htm

SFNovelist - for hard science SF
http://sfnovelist.com/index.htm

Internet Writing Workshop - various types of writing
http://www.manistee.com/~lkraus/workshop/

Online Writing Workshop for SF & F - $40/yr
http://sff.onlinewritingworkshop.com/

These links and others of a similar ilk can be found in the [Networking & Connections] section of http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

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10:18 AM|| Permalink | |

Another addition to "online text": The Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia provides concordances for the Bible (RSV/KJV), Koran, Book of Mormon &al.:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/relig.browse.html

This link can be found in the [Reference & Research] section of http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

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10:42 AM|| Permalink | |

Site Updates

Revamped the [Reference & Research] page. Split off [Online Texts] and [Warnings & Rumors].

[Online Texts] includes

Bartleby.com - Encyclopedias to Fannie Farmer online:
http://www.bartleby.com/

bibliomania - Classic references - Netscape unfriendly:
http://www.bibliomania.com/

Bill Williams - Great Books' Texts & Concordances:
http://www.concordance.com/

Access Foundation - The Great Books:
http://www.anova.org/

[Warnings & Rumors] includes

Snopes - Urban Legends Reference Pages:
http://www.snopes2.com/

Symantec Virus center:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/

Symantec Virus hoax reference page:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html

Computer Virus Myths page:
http://www.Vmyths.com/

CIAC Virus and hoaxes:
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/

Virus Warnings:
http://www.ultimasurf.net/ultimasurfcom/news/viruswarningsnews.html

CNET - Favorite Net Hoaxes:
http://www.cnet.com/techtrends/0-6014-7-1427917.html

These links can be found in the [Reference & Research] section of http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

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10:11 AM|| Permalink | |

Advice for Poets

Copper Canyon Press offers a collection of articles under the umbrella title "Advice for Poets":

http://www.coppercanyonpress.org/400_opportunities/430_gettingpub/advice.cfm

This link and other poetry writing links can be found in the [Other|Poetry] subsection of http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

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11:41 AM|| Permalink | |

Writing Workshops

Added some links to the collection of links on writing workshops this afternoon. Here's the new with some of the old.

Andrew Burt - Critters
http://critters.critique.org/users/critters

Del Rey Digital Writing Workshop for SF&F
http://delrey.onlinewritingworkshop.com/

Orson Scott Card - Hatrack River Writers Workshops
http://www.hatrack.com/writers/index.shtml

Holly Lisle - Various fiction workshops
http://hollylisle.com/fm/Workshops/index.html

Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury -SFF Workshop
http://www.sff.net/people/Dalton-Woodbury/sffw.htp

Dark Echo - Writers Workshop
http://www.darkecho.com/darkecho/workshop/index.html

The Alsop Review - Gazebo - online critique groups
http://www.alsopreview.com

Able Muse - Eratosphere Poetry & Writing Workshops
http://eratosphere.ablemuse.com/index.shtm

Yahoo! - Quill and Ink Interactive Fiction Workshop
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Quill_N_Ink/

Topica - Novel Critiques - for intermediate and advanced writers
http://www.topica.com/lists/novelcritiques/

Associated Writing Programs
http://www.awpwriter.org/

The Writer's BBS -International Writers Community
http://www.writersbbs.com/home.shtml

Yahoo! - ThePoetryCafe - not archived
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThePoetryCafe/

These links were added to the [Networking & Connections | Workshops] subsection of http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

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6:27 PM|| Permalink | |

More On Writing

http://www.rbs0.com/tw2.htm

Ronald B. Standler's page links to other Web sites on writing style, describes some books Standler thinks useful and provides brief information on the subjunctive mood and word usage. One interesting subsection is on British English differences from American English.

I'd seen some of these before -- and in fact, have links to such in my Word Stuff subsection -- but Standler's collection includes billion (10 to the 9th in USAn but sometimes 10 to the 12th in GB) and other Janus words which are easy to forget and confusing when engaged in cross-pond discussions.

Link added to the HodgePodge|Multi-faceted section of http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

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1:37 PM|| Permalink | |

Technical Writing

http://www.rbs0.com/tw.htm

Technical Writing is a set of information pulled together by Ronald B. Standler, starting in 1978 when he was teaching electrical engineering classes and wanted to help his students develop a grasp for clear, technical writing.

Link added to Non-Fiction/Tech Writing subsection of http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

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1:31 PM|| Permalink | |

Bill Johnson's Essays on the Craft of Writing

Bill Johnson's site touts his book, "A Story Is A Promise: Good things to know before you write that screenplay, novel, or play" and his workshops/presentations.

Also on the site is a collection of his Essays on the Craft of Writing - short pieces on writing, plot, characters, including "Foundation Principles of Storytelling," "What a Plot IS," and others. He also has essays that review movies, books and screenplays that explore how and why they work.

Useful.

http://www.storyispromise.com/windex.htm - Index to the Essays.

Added to the HodgePodge | Writers On Writing subsection of
http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

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Online Etymology Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Online Etymology Dictionary is a super dictionary of word origins available online. Want to know what a Fata Morgana is? Check it out in the dictionary.

"These are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant 600 or 2,000 years ago. Think of it like looking at pictures of your friends' parents when they were your age. People will continue to use words as they will, finding new or wider meanings for old words and coining new ones to fit new situations. In fact, this list is a testimony to that process."

The Dictionary is a fun browse and a useful tool.
http://www.geocities.com/etymonline/

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Op-Ed links

Added the following links yesterday to the Non-Fiction|Op-Ed section of http://www.internet-resources.com/writers

San Jose Mercury News - http://www0.mercurycenter.com/opinion/write/ How to write for the Opinion pages

Environmental Media Services - http://www.americanhiking.org/events/pdfs/howtooped.pdf Writing and Publishing an Op-Ed - PDF

DePaul University - http://newsroom.depaul.edu/html/mrOpedMain.html How to Write an Op-Ed and Get it Published

John McLain - http://aboutpublicrelations.net/ucmclaina.htm How to Write a Successful Op-Ed

Nowar Collective - http://www.nowarcollective.com/tips.htm Tips for placing letters and op/ed pieces

Washington Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A15850-2001Jun18¬Found=true Op-Ed Submission - must be written exclusively for The Post

Society for Conservation Biology - http://www.conbio.net/SCB/Publications/Newsletter/Archives/2000-8-August/8-00n010.cfm Tips from the Media Committee: How to Write and Place an Op-Ed

Glenn Kranzley, The Morning Call - http://www.mcall.com/all-hottooped.story How to write an op-ed column

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Encyclopedia Britannica (1911 ed)

http://1911encyclopedia.org/

The 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is filled, as the site declares, "with historical information that is still relevant today."

The edition contains over 44 million words in 29 volumes. Set the Wayback Machine to 1911 and click the link ....

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Bibliomania

http://www.bibliomania.com/
Bibliomania - Thousands of classic books, articles. Study guides and message boards to discuss the meaning of what's read. Reference. Reading. Research. Search engine.

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Logical Fallacies

http://www.uncwil.edu/people/kozloffm/EDN566logicalfallacies.html
John Eshlemann on Logical Fallacies

http://gncurtis.home.texas.net/
Gary Curtis' Fallacy Files covers similar ground.

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Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century

http://www.greatachievements.org/

The National Academy of Engineering's list of Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century. The site is divvied up by twenty subsections of achievement and gives a history and timeline for each subsection.

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Search for Copyright Holders & other information

http://www.loc.gov/copyright/search/cohm.html

The copyright office's search mechanism.

Looking for information on an author or title?

Elsewhere, someone wanted to know what was the "real" name behind the novelist Diana Diamond. Easy enough to find, if Diana Diamond has registered for copyright.

The listing also gives who the actual copyright holder is and whether a work was a work for hire, if you are looking for a copyright holder because you need permissions.

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Forensic Science links

Morten Stærkeby - Forensic Science links
http://folk.uio.no/mostarke/forens_ent/fs_links.shtml

Morten Stærkeby - Forensic Entomology Pages, International
http://folk.uio.no/mostarke/forens_ent/forensic_entomology.html

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The Century Dictionary On-line (1901)

http://www.global-language.com/century/

The usual 'net dictionaries don't let me flip through from page to page, looking at interesting words. Indeed, they usually only provide me with a definition for a single word. What fun is that?

The Century Dictionary ("An encyclopedic dictionary of English considered by many to be the finest ever produced in the US." - Oxford Companion to the English Language) is fun, a hundred years old, twelve volumes worth of words, more than 10K pages, more than 500K definitions.

The dictionary has been put online in DjVu format, which gives you the actual page format and look of the original.

Search for a word, "towse," f'rex.

Look at the results in DjVu format, DjVu format with highlighting or as a JPEG.

You'll see the whole page of the dictionary with the word you wanted, or where the word you wanted would've been if it had been in the dictionary.

The search field &c. remains in the left sidebar in case you get "towse, v. See touse."
Search: touse

touse (touz), v.; pret. and pp. toused, ppr. tousing. [Formerly also touze, towse; [snips ...] Connection with the equiv. tease, tose, is doubtful. Hence tousle.]

I. trans.
1. To tear or pull apart; rend.
We'll touse you
Joint by joint, but we will know his purpose.
Shak., M. for M., v.1.313.

2. To tease; comb.
Welcome, Welchman! Here, nurse, open him and have him to the fire, for God's sake; they have touzed him, and washed him thoroughly, and that be good.
Peele, Edw. I.

3. To harass; worry; plague.
As a Beare whom angry curres have touzd.
Spenser, F.Q., II.xi.33.

4. To pull about; handle roughly or carelessly; hence, to rumple, dishevel; tousle.
Like swine, touse pearl without respect.
Ford, Honour Triumphant, i.

I will be tousing
Their fair madonas.
Massinger, Duke of Milan, iii.1.

Belinda. Am I not horribly touz'd?
Araminta. Your Head's a little out of order.
Congreve, Old Batchelor, iv.8.

II. intrans.

... &c. and so forth.

Reduce. Zoom. Turn 90deg. Page forward. Page back.

Jeffery Triggs says, in the intro, "As I mentioned above, no dictionary is everything to everybody, and The Century Dictionary Online is no exception. You will not find terms like "bad hair day," "ribbit," "Rogernomics," or even "Reaganomics" here. After all, the last edition of The Century Dictionary came out when Reagan was a toddler. More seriously, you will not find terms like "AIDS," "motherboard," "television," "World Wide Web," and even some common words I have used here. Dictionary publicists always like to emphasize their new words, but we cannot hide the fact that The Century Dictionary Online, advanced as it was in its day, has no newer words yet. However, this should not obscure the more important fact that the vast majority of English words, and virtually all the words of the core vocabulary of English, were already known more than a century ago and are in fact beautifully, deeply defined in The Century Dictionary."

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