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Excellent freelance writing blog by Angela Booth.

Karen Lee Field's writing blog

Ghostwriting and Freelance Writing blog - promises daily inspiration

Dana Prince's writing blog.

Basics tutorial in setting up a free Blogger blog, uploading images and placing text for fiction writers wanting to publishe illustrated stories onto the web.

WriteChain is an iPhone writer's app created by the author of the blog, How Not to Write. It features a wordcount function which adds up your wordcount on writing projects day by day, notifying you when you forget to write (or break the chain). Available through the ITunes application store, with instructions on this blog.

list of blogs about freelancing. good site

good blogs on different topics about wiritng

Stumbled upon this blog this morning - WOW! A young, yet informative blog about essay writing.

"Each writer has personal style and preferences, so it is difficult to make a generalization and pick universally-efficient tools for such an individual practice."

Picture this. You've spent hours or days conceptualizing and writing a killer short story, article, or blog post. Your time has had to be organized, you've forgotten about everything else and now you're ready to face yourself with all the ideas inside your mind. Now that all that work is behind you, the process of editing may seem boring, time-consuming, and pointless.

If I were to ask you what Game of Thrones had to do with freelance blogging, what would you say? That I'm nuts? (You know, you could be right). That said, I think there's plenty you can learn about being a great freelance blogger by watching Game of Thrones.

Tiffany's blog - where there are regular haiku writing prompts also

Daily writing challenges are posted on Katie-Anne's blog.

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.

The Internet is a very time-consuming place. At best. At its worst it's a very time-wasting place. The question is: How responsible are you for wasting the time of others? Do you update your Facebook status or tweet or blog more often than you really need to? You don't have time to follow what all your friends are doing; do they have the time to keep abreast of everything that's new in your life. Do you ever wonder if all of this is a bit pointless?

When you start writing a novel, you have so many ideas in your head that you are eagerly waiting to get them all onto paper. However, things always turn out to be harder than you initially anticipated. Without proper motivation and the right tools at hand, it will be impossible to stay productive and finish the novel within the planned timeframe.