There are so many amazingly great resources out there for new authors, old authors, thinking about being an author. I find new blogs, helps, articles, workshops, twitter and facebook feeds, daily. Yes, I know. I spend way too much time searching the internet and not nearly enough writing. But, what does all of that searching get me? A whole bunch of wonderful information!
So today I am listing a few of them here, so that I can keep track of them, and so it might help someone else out 🙂
So here we go: First and foremost – Autocrit.com www.Autocrit.com I have mentioned this one several times before, but I love it! It helps you edit your work so that you can catch all the little things that are easily fixed by you the writer so you don’t make your editor work twice as hard, or drive them crazy. It’s fast, it’s simple, and it’s a life saver. Use it! Buy a membership! Do it, just do it. Thank me later!
Next is – Onomatopoeia Word list http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/onomatopoeia-word-list/ I think this is a fun page. It has word like guffaw and kerplunk on it. It has a wide range of strange, fun, and lively words to use instead of the same old boring ones like laugh, and dropped.
This one, I wish I had known two months ago when I started my Fairelle Series. I have already used over twenty names and I am only in book two. That added to my six other novels which each have close to fifteen characters a piece, I really grasping for new names! http://www.20000-names.com/ I am not sure I can do more justice to the website than the title does for itself. 20,000 names. Just as it implies, that’s what the site is.
The next is a commonly confused word PDF. that I got off of L.Z. Marie’s blog. It is a great PDF to have on hand so that you can tell the difference between except and accept. Effect and affect.
http://lzmarieauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Commonly-confused-2.pdf
Also, a note on Lzmarieauthor.com She has a great bunch of posts on everything from animals to mythical creatures. If you are looking for a great blog with an encyclopedia’s worth of information, that I personally think she should turn into an ebook and sell, but that’s just me 🙂
I only recently started really paying attention to this next blog. But it is so chocked full of amazing social media information, I could spend a week straight guzzling caffeine and reading it through bloodshot sleep deprived eyes to glean all the amazing information!
http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/
She has so great help out there with platform building, blogging, twittering and facebooking. A must for all new authors!
Stay tuned this week for more links to more great blogs and sites!