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- When it comes to computers — backup, backup, backup: I’ll bet you’ve heard this advice more than a few times: Always backup the data on your computer in case of hard drive failure, fried motherboards, or whatever might destroy [...]
- Do know about ‘EzineArticles.com’? You should check out the site: It just occurred to me that, in my eagerness to bring you frequent “Useful Websites,” there are some fundamental sites for writers that I’m missing. So let me remedy that [...]
- Here’s a useful reference site for researchers, writers: Maybe I’m coming late to the parade on this one, but I just ran onto “wikiHow — The How-to-Manual That You Can Edit,” and it looks like a very useful [...]
- Do you use Internet reference tools? What are some of your favorites?: It’s been called the “information Superhighway,” but I’ll bet that most of us barely scratch the surface of information and research tools available online when we do our writing. I [...]
- Making use of online resources and useful websites, especially for writers: (Editor’s Note: This is another “recycled” post, one of the “golden oldies” of the blog which I’m bringing back to the top of the blog to feature their content again [...]
- He doesn’t claim to be a ‘guru,’ but you really need Paul Myers’ free newsletter: I don’t know if this guy’s considered in that rarefied group deemed to be “gurus” or not, but I’ll guarantee you his free newsletter is absolutely worth gold to anyone [...]
- This is for all you ‘Well-Fed’ writers out there — take a look: This post is for all you “Well-Fed” writers out there — and I hope you’ll take a good look at “The Well-Fed Writer” website I just linked to in this [...]
- I highly recommend you take a look at this Audie Murphy site: I highly recommend that you take a look at this “Audie L. Murphy Memorial Website,” for a full account of this remarkable man. As a follow-up on my last post, [...]
- Quick tip with link for all you WordPress bloggers out there: Here’s a quick tip with a valuable link for all you WordPress bloggers out there who may be a little disenchanted with the administration area of the new 2.7 version. [...]
- Repeating a writing tip I gave you some weeks ago: Make ‘wikipedia’ one of your regular online friends: I don’t have any great insight for you here. I’ve mentioned in earlier posts that wikipedia.com is a very quick, easy, and useful writing resource. I bring it up again [...]
- My apologies for overlooking one of the best ‘Useful Websites’ for writers: I just realized that I’ve mentioned “Writer’s Digest” magazine from time to time in this blog — but I’ve never, as far as I can find, featured their website as [...]
- All you fiction writers — here’s a website you should go to right away: Okay, I’ll admit up front that I have no personal knowledge of this author or his teaching material. But he sounds good and the website looks good. I just did [...]
- It’s a cold, slow day here — how about some fun with words and word play?: We’re in the midst of recovering from an ice storm today. It was terrible yesterday and it isn’t thawing much, so we’re still in danger of power outages. Not the [...]
- Keeping up with the news — do you read favorite newspaper websites?: It’s good once in awhile to remember that now classic name tag applied to the Internet by Al Gore — I think it was Gore who popularized it anyway? — [...]
- Ever wonder when ‘teenage’ was first used by writers? You can find out: I’ve always been interested in word origins, first usages of a word, all that historical stuff related to language. (It’s called etymology.) One of the first words I recall checking [...]
- Go immediately to ‘ThereTheir.com’ and enjoy — we don’t have to write like idiots: In a comment to a recent post I did about my “more than/more then” pet peeve, one of our readers gave me a link to an absolutely great little writing [...]
- ‘Kiva’ offers a concrete step you can take to help the poor earn a living: I don’t know where I’ve been, but it took me until just last evening to find this “Useful Website” which specializes in helping those in Third World nations make a [...]
