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One of Wendy C. Allen's blogs. Wendy is a writer of sci-fi, romance, and horror short stories and novels, most noted as the creator of The Twighlight Manor series, a multi-volume epic gothic sci-fi-romance set in the haunted house, known as The Twighlight Manor. Wendy also owns The Twighlight Manor Press and editor of Moonsnails Magazine and Buried Treasure Magazine.

A simple text editor with frequent auto-backups and a countdown word counter. Useful to help you meet word count targets/

Alexander Hamilton was America's greatest ghostwriter. Here are five lessons he leaves us, with quotes from the musical that bears his name.

All of us spend way too much time online. The big question is: How well is that time spent? We read things and, five minutes later, couldn't tell you what we've read. We post blogs and update our Facebook status and imagine there are people who are really interested but are they-and we, of course-only going through the motions of showing interest? And woe betide you if you're trying to sell something to your peers because the odds are they're trying to sell something to you and if they buy what you're offering and you buy what they're offering isn't that all a bit pointless? Step back, take off the pink-tinted glasses and have a fresh look at your online habits.

There has been a lot written over the years about the danger of artificial sweeteners and the Internet is awash with articles some more believable than others. Scottish author Jim Murdoch talks about his own personal experience using aspartame in his coffee and the crippling brain fog that followed.

"It's time for another look at irregular verbs. In episode 291, I said irregular verbs are those that don't form their past tense by simply adding an "-ed" suffix, and that they tend to get turned into regular verbs over time. For example, the past tense of "help" used to be "holp," but now it's been regularized, and we say "helped.".......

Often, movies and television can teach us as much or more about writing technique as books can because their streamlined structure makes it easier to isolate and identify certain writing strategies. Mad Men viewers can learn a great deal about character from watching the show.

"My secret weapon is using a two screen layout for my PC. This allows me to work on the story on one monitor, while researching on the other. If you're curious as to what writing tools great authors prefer, you may refer to the excellent infographic below, which was prepared by Robert Morris and the lovely people over at NinjaEssays.com. "

Soup.io is another tumbleblog application, allowing for the aggregation of content from all over the web. Amalgamate video, text, audio, quotes, images, links, files etc onto the one Soup blog. Allows for use of your own domain name also.

Titlz intends to provide data and trends on the book publishing industry - historic data, sales rankings on books on Amazon, trends on topics and titles. Although still in development, book industry professionals can currently use TitleZ for free.

Mediachest allows you to catalogue, track and borrow books, cds, dvds and games. Good groups features - use it for families, friends and co-worker groups for your exchanges.

Lifehack's listing of 50 different writing techniques written by Roy Peter Clark and held at the Poynter Institute. Topics include Show and Tell, Using Strong Verbs, Original Images, and 47 more.

Librarything allows you to catalogue your books, using amazon searches, the Libary of Congress or other world libaries. Review, and rate these, and share with friends. Import from anywhere. Tag, list by book cover or lists, there are large discussion groups also, an early reviewers club, and LibraryThing widgets to share your book collection in various ways on your blog. Free accounts allow for 200 books. Over this, a small subscription yearly or a lifetime membership is available.

Tumblr is one of the original microblogging webapps on the web. Many people hold Tumbleblogs of aggregated text, quotes, photos, links, video, audio and chat from all over the web. You can add your own comments to these items, or create your own text (blog entry) A tumbleblog is very easy to use with bookmarklets in your browser to help you add content to your blog quickly.

What's on my Bookshelf offers cataloguing, tags, popular tags, and users can trade books using a points system

The blog of teacher and SF writer James Van Pelt. Includes all sorts of interesting and useful advice from a professional.

WikIT is a new wiki on using mindmaps, for both personal and business usage.

StickySorter is a program created in the Microsoft Labs, concentrating on allowing the user to create and sort multiple simple sticky notes, and share these as sorted. The process in gathering multiple sticky notes and organising them is based on the affinity diagramming process used by project teams all over the world for brainstorming and organising ideas.

A first-time author, a virtual unknown, can have his book rapidly climb to the top of just about every best-seller list. But that's what Timothy Ferriss of The 4-Hour Workweek did in 2007, and the way he did it was just as remarkable as what he achieved. Here, the Write to Done blog interviews Tim on his book.