Life’s Like That, Sometimes

Marty’s Muse

Sept 2010

Something to think about …

Life’s Like That, Sometimes

Okay, yes, the past few weeks have been a bit hectic, thanks for asking. So this month I’m taking a free turn and re-circulating a previous entry. Here is a list of (some) of my favorite websites for authors, edited and updated—sort of:

Favorite Web Sites

[A partial list]:

· Chicago Manual of Style: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html

• Lots of info here: http://www.writing-world.com/index.shtml

· Dictionary: http://www.merriam-webster.com/

· The Word Detective: http://www.word-detective.com/

· Online Thesaurus: http://thesaurus.reference.com/

· Get some free business cards at http://www.vistaprint.com

· Writer’s Digest: http://www.writersdigest.com

· Writer’s Digest 101 best sites for writers http://www.writersdigest.com/101BestSites

· OWL, the Purdue Online Writing Lab: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

· Grammar Errors: http://www.grammarerrors.com/siteindex.html

· Guide to Grammar and Writing: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

· and the companion page, Principles of Composition: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/composition.htm

· Strunk and White online: http://www.bartelby.net/141/

o Here is the entire volume in PDF format: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~jms/doc/elos.pdf

o Find a summary of the rules here: http://www.tcnj.edu/~penny/cmsc485/strunk_summary.html

· Extraordinary Literary Journeys: http://www.inkwaterpress.com/index.php

· Adventures in Reading For Lovers of Fiction: http://tri-studio.com/index.html

· Writing advice and more: http://www.writeradvice.com/index.html

· Over 800 pages about writing: http://www.write101.com/

· How To Do It Frugally: http://www.carolynhowardjohnson.redenginepress.com/

· The Write News: http://www.writenews.com/

· Try Writing on the Run: http://www.writingontherun.com/welcome.html

· Wizard of a resource: http://wordwizard.com/indexresources.htm

· Michael Quinion writes on international English: http://www.worldwidewords.org/

· Submission service: http://www.writersrelief.com/index.asp

· Professional e-zine for writers: http://www.writer-on-line.com/index.html

· Another e-zine: http://www.writersweekly.com/

· Educating writers: http://www.writersbreak.com/