Meryl's Notes Blog

I had planned on putting this list up ages ago, but kept adding more. It could take a long time to capture many resources, so this is a living entry that I’ll update as soon as I get new resources.

Blogs

1. All Freelance Writing
2. Be the Story
3. Bob Bly
4. Book Marketing Bestsellers
5. The Book Sistah
6. C. Hope Clark
7. CatalystBlogger
8. Confident Writing
9. Copyblogger
10. The Copywriter Underground
11. The Copywriting Maven
12. Copywriting That Sells High Tech
13. Crime Fiction Dossier
14. Daily Writing Tips
15. Diary of a Wordsmith
16. Editor’s Blog
17. Evil Editor
18. Freelance Parent
19. Freelance Writing Jobs
20. Get Paid to Write Online
21. The Golden Pencil
22. Grow Your Writing Business
23. How Not to Write
24. I’d Rather Be Writing
25. Inkwell Editorial
26. Jane in Progress
27. Joel Falconer
28. Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 Blog
29. JohnAugust.com
30. PoeWar
31. Mad Young Thing
32. Men with Pens
33. Newbie’s Guide to Publishing
34. Paul Conley on trade journalism
35. Poewar List of Bloggers Writers Should Read
36. Publishing Careers
37. Problogger
38. Robust Writing
39. Quiet Rebel Writer
40. The Renegade Writer
41. Rogue Ink
42. Sites and Soundbytes: Library blog that began as a list of cool places online now features many resources and online references that would prove useful to writers.
43. StoneWriter
44. Storytellers Unplugged
45. The Struggling Writer
46. The Wealthy Freelancer
47. The Web-Savvy Writer
48. Web Writing Info
49. The Well-Fed Writer
50. WOW! Women on Writing
51. Words on the Water
52. Word Sell Blog
53. Write from Home
54. Writer Beware
55. Writer Dad
56. Writer Mama
57. Writer’s Digest Writing Blogs
58. Writer’s Helper
59. Writer’s Notes
60. The Writers Manifesto
61. Write to Done
62. Write Well Me
63. The Writing Journey
64. The Writing Life
65. Writing on the Web
66. Writing White Papers Blog
67. Written Road

Resources

1. 100 posts and articles worth link love: Great selection of articles and content related to writing, business, blogging, and freelancing.
2. 150 Writing Resources: Organized by categories.
3. 1000 Keyboards: Community where writers share, critique and discuss.
4. A to Z of Alternative Words [pdf file]: Why “utilize” when a simple “use” will do?
5. AbiWord: Open source Word
6. About Freelance Writing: Job postings, articles, and more.
7. AbsoluteWrite: The first place I recommend to wanna be writers. Of course, it’s great for experienced writers.
8. Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts: Collection of about 14,000 “classic” public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
9. American vs. British Grammar: Differences go beyond color vs. colour, optimize vs. optimise.
10. Authors of Historical Fiction resource
11. Bartleby: Resource has been around for a long-time that contains reference and verses for writers, researchers, and the “intellectually curious.”
12. CARRIE: Internet’s first full-text online electronic library.
13. Community Mottos and Nicknames. Great info for stories and inspiration for names.
14. Confusing Words: Over 3000 troublesome words.
15. Digital Library of the Commons: An archive of full-text articles, papers, and dissertations; the Comprehensive Bibliography of the Commons; a Keyword Thesaurus, and links to relevant reference sources on the study of the commons.
16. Disability Writes: Site to help people with disabilities overcome barriers in getting support and encouragement to write.
17. e-write: newsletter, courses, articles, tools, resources, challenge.
18. Etymology: Study of word origins.
19. For Copywriters Only: Articles and newsletter.
20. The Free Dictionary: Dictionary, encyclopeida, thesaurus, and more. Huge resource.
21. Freelance Folder: More about the business of freelancing, but writers benefit greatly.
22. Freelance Writing Success: Articles and resources.
23. FundsForWriters: Articles, newsletters, and more.
24. Fun with Words: Wordplay
25. Google Book Search: Access thousands of books based on your keywords. How much you get depends on the book and its copyright.
26. Guide to Grammar and Writing: Guidelines and resources for writing proposals.
27. Little Known Online Research Sites: List of online research sites and apps.
28. Long Story Short: Ezine with book reviews, excerpts, interviews, articles, poetry, writing school.
29. Luciferous Logolepsy: Collection of obscure English words.
30. Manuscript Analyzer can help dump those trouble words and phrases. It looks for frequently-used words and “identify junk phrases, ‘frequent offender’ word patterns, and adverbs.”
31. NewsTrust.net: Discover good journalism based on quality not popularity.
32. OnceWritten.com: Introduces new fiction writers, contains a community, and provides resources for contests and marketing.
33. ParaPublishing: Newsletter and resources.
34. Publication Coach Newsletter: Power Writing newsletter provides quick tips.
35. Publishing Central: Find articles from around the Web on just about every topic related to publishing.
36. The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL): Superb resources covering writing, research, grammar, and MLA and APA style.
37. ResearchCopyright.com: Learn about copyright law in simple language.
38. Research Guides from New York Public Library: New York Public Library research guides in alphabetical order by topic.’
39. That What Paper Guy: Articles, FAQ, and other great white paper writing resources from Gordon Graham.
40. The Ultimate Writing Productivity Resources: Top ten lists for free apps, online apps, bookmarks, communities.
41. Visuwords: Online graphical dictionary.
42. The Well-Fed Writer: Site behind the books of the same name. Sign up for the free newsletter.
43. Writing for Dollars: Articles and newsletter
44. WhitePaperSource: Excellent resource for white paper writers.
45. Worldwide Freelance Writer: Markets, newsletter, and articles.
46. Writing White Papers: Everything white papers including a community, blog, links, and newsletter.

Tools

1. About Writing Tools: Best writing tools on the Web.
2. Abbreviations: Search and browse abbreviations.
3. Anagram Genius
4. Charteous: Track Amazon sales ranks — especially for books.
5. Cliche Finder: Identify and kill cliches.
6. ClicheSite: Cliches, euphemesms, and figures of speech.
7. Chris Pound’s Name Generation Page: Includes fantasie, parodies, and more links.
8. The Editorium Freebies: Tools and templates for Microsoft Word.
9. The Free Dictionary: Includes English, Medical, Legal, Financial, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, and a Literature Reference Library.
10. Freelance Switch Hourly Rate Calculator: How much should you make an hour? Complete this form to find out.
11. Global Acronyms: Search for acronyms.
12. Good Keywords: Find the right keywords.
13. Google Docs: Online-based word processor
14. Instant Anagrams
15. Instant Rhymes
16. Microsoft Word Shortcuts: Exactly as it sounds.
17. The Naque: Tools for coming up with names.
18. NetLingo: Online text and jargon.
19. The Passivator: Eliminate passive phrases.
20. Phrase Finder: Find phrases and their meanings.
21. Reference.com: Dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, reference material Wikipedia and Lexico’s On This Day.
22. Rhymezone: Tool for finding words that rhyme. Also includes other resources such as Shakespeare, quizzes, quotations, Mother Goose, and famous documents.
23. Scrivener Gold: Helps writers organize projects — for Macs. Apple Matters review gives it a rating of 9 out of 10. Scrivener requires a Mac running OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
24. Seventh Sanctum: Name generators (look on the left).
25. Text Block Writer: A virtual index card program.
26. ThinkFree Office: Free “Office” application.
27. Tools for Creating Ideas: Nice list of ideas of what you can do to brainstorm and come up with new things.
28. U.S. Newspapers: Find Web sites for US newspapers
29. Wordsmith: Love the site’s anagram server. Also has A Word a Day, Wordsmith Chat, Wordserver and more.
30. World Newspapers, Magazines, and New Sites in English: Nice resource that sorts resources by categories.
31. WordWeb: Thesaurus and dictionary accessed with one click.
32. Zoho Writer and other apps

Updated: September 4, 2008 (100+ resources)