Stuff for Writers

I’ve been using this site for years. Printfree.com. It uses a simple web design that feels very 20th-century, but whenever I need to spit out a calendar for a month, a year, or anything in between, this is the place I go. They’ve got a lot of options, just go for the blue links in the middle of the first page. On the “monthly calendars,” page I like the four-month overview calendars. No pop-ups (as of this linking, though I’ve never seen any in the years I’ve used this). Just really handy, printable calendars.

Gadgets are great, but there’s nothing like a good old fashion page of boxes with red X’s to keep track of that impending deadline.

Printfree.com

Writerisms: overused and misused language. In more direct words: find ‘em, root ‘em out, and look at your prose without the underbrush.

Written in 1995 by the author C.J. Cherryh, these tips are just as helpful today.

Read “Writerisms and other Sins” by C.J. Cherryh

My favorite pen is the Pilot G-2 gel pen.

Many other bloggers agree with me, it seems.

Hours Many, many minutes of fun.

He’s a witless Republican romance novelist on a search for his missing sister. She’s a provocative paranoid queen of the dead with a song in her heart and a spring in her step. They fight crime!

TheyFightCrime.Org

You work hard on your words, but once you put them on the web, modern technology makes it easy for others to steal them. If you want to confront the people swiping your content without permission, check out some of these tips at Lorelle’s blog.

Read ‘What do you do when someone steals your content?’