Resource Du Jour

[Betty W01]

Since there is no board just for resources, I'm starting a thread on here for resources I find that I can't resist pointing out to others. If you also have some, feel free to post the link and a brief description of what can be found there. I'm also copying it to several other forums which may find it useful; mods who don't want it, feel free to vaporize it or ask me to. Enjoy!


Today's site:
OneLook Dictionary Search
www.onelook.com/about.shtml (http://www.onelook.com/about.shtml)

They describe themselves: Think of this web site as a search engine for words and phrases: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, we'll quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word. If you don't know how to spell the word, we'll help you do that too. No word is too obscure: More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine.

[Betty W01]

www.bartleby.com/reference/ (http://www.bartleby.com/reference/)

Their description: Bartleby.com combines the best of both contemporary and classic reference works into the most comprehensive public reference library ever published on the web.

Includes Shakespeare, the Harvard Classics (all 70 volumes!), Gray's Anatomy, the King James Bible, the sayings of Confucius, and loads of other stuff. You could spend days here...

[Betty W01]

our very own Absolute Write, where you can learn all kinds of important information! There are

book reviews:
www.absolutewrite.com/novels/book_reviews.htm (http://www.absolutewrite.com/novels/book_reviews.htm)
including some by yours truly, like this one:
www.absolutewrite.com/novels/guide_to_publishing.htm (http://www.absolutewrite.com/novels/guide_to_publishing.htm)

articles of interest:www.absolutewrite.com/freelance_writing/articles2.htm (http://www.absolutewrite.com/freelance_writing/articles2.htm)

market listings:www.absolutewrite.com/Markets.htm (http://www.absolutewrite.com/Markets.htm)

and all kinds of other stuff. If you've never spent any time just clicking around in there, go do it. Go on... what are you waiting for?
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[Betty W01]

The Write News' Editorial Dead Zone gives you the news in the publishing industry (and it looks like most of it is bad.) Don't read it if you're easily depressed, but if you need to get a feel for the future of the industry, you can get it here. Then go to their home page for other good stuff.

www.writenews.com/deadzone/ (http://www.writenews.com/deadzone/)

More uplifting - The Center for Life Story Preservation, where ordinary folks are being encouraged to write their life stories for their family's information. Lots of good stuff for us here, too, especially the links to nostalgia sites and the story themes and ideas link to a long list of ideas you can use as story prompts!

www.storypreservation.com/home.html (http://www.storypreservation.com/home.html)

Have a productive and satisfying week, y'all!