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Resources
Craft Advice
Cartographer's Guild: Cartographical Economics and Demographics - A Guide to Realism
Elizabeth Barrette: Cut to the Core
Elizabeth Barrette: So Your Story Needs a Prophecy
Elizabeth Barrette: Building a Fantasy World
Elizabeth Barrette: Worldbuilding II: Answering Questions
Elizabeth Barrette: Writing Exercise: Using the JerkMuse
Elizabeth Barrette: Thoughts on Rhyming Poetry
Pretentious Title: How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day
Pretentious Title: How I Plot A Novel in 5 Steps
Pretentious Title: Editing for People Who Hate Editing
Terrible Minds: 25 Reasons I Hate Your Main Character
Business Advice
Crowdfunding / Cyberfunded Creativity An excellent collection of resources explaining what crowdfunding is and how to get started.
Elizabeth Barrette: Writing Contracts
Elizabeth Barrette: Master List of Interview Questions for Writers
Blogs
Chuck Wendig: Terrible Minds Advice, challenges, interviews, and personal posts on The Life. Swears creatively and often.
Rachel Aaron: Pretentious Title Advice and personal posts on writing.
Programs/Applications
CopyWrite Mac OS X 10.3 and up; $24.99 USD
Evernote Available on most platforms; Limited free use; Premium account is $5 USD/month or $45 USD/year
PortableApps Windows (32 & 64-bit) 2000, XP, Vista, 7 and 8 + Wine under Linux/Unix/BSD/Mac OS X; Free
Specific Apps:
Dictionary
Procrastination
Internet tools
Create a book cover with Gimp & InkScape
Create an audiobook
Word Processors: Open Office | Libre Office | Focus Writer
Remember to take breaks
Scrivener Mac OS X 10.4 and up; $45 USD; Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7; $40 USD
Word Counter A simple web-based application that does what it says.
yWriter Supports Windows XP, Vista "and beyond." Earlier versions of Windows are not supported; Free
General
750 Words
Write or Die
Cartographer's Guild: Cartographical Economics and Demographics - A Guide to Realism
Elizabeth Barrette: Cut to the Core
Elizabeth Barrette: So Your Story Needs a Prophecy
Elizabeth Barrette: Building a Fantasy World
Elizabeth Barrette: Worldbuilding II: Answering Questions
Elizabeth Barrette: Writing Exercise: Using the JerkMuse
Elizabeth Barrette: Thoughts on Rhyming Poetry
Pretentious Title: How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day
Pretentious Title: How I Plot A Novel in 5 Steps
Pretentious Title: Editing for People Who Hate Editing
Terrible Minds: 25 Reasons I Hate Your Main Character
Business Advice
Crowdfunding / Cyberfunded Creativity An excellent collection of resources explaining what crowdfunding is and how to get started.
Elizabeth Barrette: Writing Contracts
Elizabeth Barrette: Master List of Interview Questions for Writers
Blogs
Chuck Wendig: Terrible Minds Advice, challenges, interviews, and personal posts on The Life. Swears creatively and often.
Rachel Aaron: Pretentious Title Advice and personal posts on writing.
Programs/Applications
CopyWrite Mac OS X 10.3 and up; $24.99 USD
Evernote Available on most platforms; Limited free use; Premium account is $5 USD/month or $45 USD/year
PortableApps Windows (32 & 64-bit) 2000, XP, Vista, 7 and 8 + Wine under Linux/Unix/BSD/Mac OS X; Free
Specific Apps:
Dictionary
Procrastination
Internet tools
Create a book cover with Gimp & InkScape
Create an audiobook
Word Processors: Open Office | Libre Office | Focus Writer
Remember to take breaks
Scrivener Mac OS X 10.4 and up; $45 USD; Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7; $40 USD
Word Counter A simple web-based application that does what it says.
yWriter Supports Windows XP, Vista "and beyond." Earlier versions of Windows are not supported; Free
General
750 Words
Write or Die
Re: Okay...
eta: Just wanted to let you know that I'm definitely going to include your posts, but I ran out of time for the moment. Didn't want you to think I was leaving you out!