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50 of the Best Websites for Writers | Educhoices.org: Aug 9, 10:28am 52 reviews writing
http://educhoices.org/articles/50_of_the_Best_Websites_for_Writers.html

One Sentence - True stories, told in one sentence.: Mar 5, 4:58pm 397 reviews writing
http://www.onesentence.org/

Creative Commons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Feb 15, 5:36am 0 review writing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons

Granularity for students - lifehack.org: Jan 27, 2:08am 3 reviews writing
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/granularity-for-students.html

Write to Done: Jan 24, 2:21am 12 reviews writing
http://writetodone.com/; Zen and the art of output maintenance There are many more million bits of advice on line about writing than there are successful writers. Writers write. Non-writers read about how to write. I've made my living writing in various formats for 25 years and hence I rarely recommend sites "about" writing. The only advice I have ever found effective is Mary Heaton Vorse's "Apply the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair." However, I am happy to recommend this new blog called Write to Done to you writers who need more encouragement. It is produced by the author of Zen Habits, one of the most consistently useful blogs online. Like any site about writing, it should take its own advice (you'd be surprised how many don't). This one practices the most important rule of journalism and blogging - get your reader's attention, and keep it. Examples: 12 Essential Tips for Building a Successful Blog I get asked over at my blog Zen Habits: "How have you become so successful so quickly?" I'm always sorry to tell them I don't have any secrets. I do the same things that other successful blogs have done. 5 Ways to Glue Readers to the Page Some writers arrest me on the spot and shackle me to their page. But others fail to keep my attention: I soon start playing with the cat or surf off to other sites. Use Reading to Become a Better Writer There are two ways to become a better writer, in general: write a lot, and read a lot. There are no other steps. How to Hold Yourself Accountable As a Writer "The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week." [Robert Frost] Let's face it: there are plenty of days when writers don't feel like writing.

Who Writes This Crap & Home: Nov 1, 2007 12:14pm 1 review writing, satire
http://whowritesthiscrap.campaignserver.co.uk/; Who writes this crap? This delightful British site is a rogue's gallery of everyday writing. It could be an anodyne anecdote on a breakfast cereal box or a pretentious restaurant menu. It might be a disturbingly illiterate newspaper ad, [right], or a letter from officialdom's Ministry of Kafka that is so tangled in jargon you can't be sure if you've been evicted or have won the state lottery. Whatever - this site puts it online for all the world to marvel at and cry out, "Author! Author! Off with his head!" Quote: "This stuff - this useless, drab, disposable stuff - is the poetry of the modern world. It's our shared heritage and our collective guilty secret. Why should we filter out every piece of spam that lands in our inbox? Why should we bin every flyer? We need to get this stuff out in the open. Let's hoard it. Let's celebrate it. Let's tear it apart." Take this genuinely cretinous ad here for an acne "cure." As the WhoWritesThisCrap site point out with glee: Quote: "Saddest of all is the refund offer at the bottom of the ad. Just imagine - in a fit of desperation, you order these pills. Then, for the next 6 to 8 weeks, you wait by the letterbox, and finally, they arrive. You grab them from the postman's hand, neck a dozen of them, and wait. And they don't work. You take some more. Still nothing. So there you are, weeks later, sitting on the toilet for hour after lonely hour, in agony with severe abdominal cramps, still covered in unsightly pus-filled boils, clutching a crumpled fifty dollar bill." And in your misery, all you can wonder is - "Who wrote this crap?"

Polish Author Convicted of Murder | World Latest | Guardian Unlimited: Sep 12, 2007 2:38pm 2 reviews writing, poland, murder
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6897924,00.html; Murder, he wrote - and did An author writes a successful crime novel about a murder. But the book is more autobiography than novel, and police eventually arrest the writer for the brutal torture and murder of a young man. Polish author Krystian Bala was last week convicted and jailed for 25 years for planning and directing the murder of Dariusz Janiszewski. The Polish writer and intellectual, whose best-selling novel described a grisly murder, committed the crime he had so vividly portrayed. The killing of Janiszewski in 2000 was notably gruesome. The victim - a successful, popular professional - was humiliated, starved and tortured, before having his hands bound with a rope that was looped around his neck in a noose. When fishermen scooped the body out of the river Oder, it was stripped to shirt and underpants and the limbs had been distended and bore marks of torture. The police had no leads and after six months the case was dormant. Fully five years after the killing, the detective in charge of the investigation, Chief Inspector Jacek Wroblewski, received an anonymous call suggesting he take a look at a novel entitled Amok, written by Bala and published two years earlier. [PICTURE: Author Krystian Bala, listens as a Wroclaw court convicts him of murder in a crime that bore eerie similarities to his novel "Amok". � Grzegorz Hawalej / AP]