Juiced on Writing

good blogs on different topics about wiritng

list of blogs about freelancing. good site

this is the writer´s weekly website with paying and nonpaying market lists and those accepting new writers. Mostly magazines.

Provides a third-party, non-repudiation, registered dating of your original digital creation. By using this service, you publicly associate your digital copyright and defined rights to you.

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

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.

Free Family Tree program, allowing for any birthdates and partnerships. Good for creating fictional family trees for your writing work.

Freeware writing project organiser. Includes elements (characters, settings, events) with annotations, structure maps and timelines.

A database of literary agents - Track query letters to literary agents - Share data about literary agents.

Writer Crash Test.com features video critiques of writing work. It is a small website off the How to Think Sideways e-course of Holly Lisles.

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.

Collobarate with one other writer. You write 40 words, then they do, then another part each. The twist is that you only see the last few words of what each of you wrote. After two parts each (a total of 160 words) you can read the result.

Large list of general resources.

Arvon Foundation, creative writing courses, taught by professional writers. Starting to write, residential writing courses open access, bursary - grant support

The 'Main Tropes' trope as used in popular culture, with a list of examples from all media.