In her latest short story collection, White Cat, Black Dog, MacArthur "Genius Grant" fellow Kelly Link reinvents seven fairytales into modern, realist short stories about, for example, an aging billionaire choosing a successor, and a house-sitting gig that goes awry.
A writing career is fraught with peril. Here is your complete guide to writer health risks and remedies, with real-life examples and links to scientific sources.
A writing career is fraught with peril. Here is your complete guide to writer health risks and remedies, with real-life examples and links to scientific sources.
Welcome to the Dowse archive for writers, artists and other creative people. Although no new material is currently being added to the site, Dowse remains a valuable resource (effectively an archive) of hundreds of pages of articles, fiction, reviews, links and so on.
Check the large Dowse --> Science Fiction directory within also.
The University of Guelph provides this resource page, with links through to overviews over the writing process, brainstorming and developing ideas, structuring, thesis focus, overcoming writers block. Slanted to the university student, there is still much here for the new writer.
GenoPro is a genealogy program for drawing family trees. It's commercial, but a good one. Includes functions for mapping, linking relationships, social or organisational groupings and emotional relationships too.
Huge resource of writing articles, resource links, author interviews, news and views. Definately bookmark and add to your RSS feed. Home to the Internet Writing Journal.
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.
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.
Heather Cook's blog on being a writing mother. The Writing Mother website also holds several groups for mother writers, and the member's blog links also. http://www.thewritingmother.com/blogs.html