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Category Archive for ‘Tools’

WordHustler

Written by Iain Broome on Jun 22, 2009 | 0 Comments

WordHustler is the first and only website to take care of the whole process of submitting work to literary markets. Our free database features 4,000+ agents, publishers, contests, and publications. Our over 5,000 clients use WordHustler to send and track their physical submissions, which saves them time so they can do what they’re supposed to [...]

Checkvist

Written by Iain Broome on Jun 09, 2009 | 0 Comments

With Checkvist you can easily work with multiple outlines or hierarchical to-do lists. Extensive use of keyboard navigation and shortcuts allows you to create an outline exactly with your typing speed. Online outliners are particularly useful for brainstorming. Checkvist supports concurrent editing, adding notes to tasks, and notifications. Just share your checklist with colleagues and [...]

EasyStreet Prompts

Written by Iain Broome on Jun 07, 2009 | 0 Comments

A thought-provoking visual or random words prompt every day. Inspiring!

Teenage Writers

Written by Iain Broome on Jun 05, 2009 | 2 Comments

A long-established site where teenage writers can get honest criticism on a wide range of writing styles.

Scrivener

Written by Iain Broome on Jun 04, 2009 | 0 Comments

Scrivener is a word processor and project management tool created specifically for writers of long texts such as novels and research papers. It won’t try to tell you how to write – it just makes all the tools you have scattered around your desk available in one application.

QueryTracker

Written by Iain Broome on Jun 03, 2009 | 0 Comments

QueryTracker is a free site that allows users to find literary agents and to track their queries to those agents. This information is then compiled into reports and shared among its users to show what agents are reading, what they are rejecting, response times, and much more.

Freelance Switch

Written by Iain Broome on Jun 01, 2009 | 1 Comments

Freelance Switch is a site meant for *all* freelancers, but freelance writers will find much to bookmark here. In addition to daily posts on freelance tips and resources, the site offers such tools as a job board, rates calculator, and more.

Scribophile

Written by Iain Broome on May 28, 2009 | 1 Comments

It is a site where all aspiring writers can showcase their literary works and get other like-minded online peers to evaluate them critically. It is an amazing platform to improve, enhance and get critiqued in a meaningful way.

Completely Novel

Written by Iain Broome on May 27, 2009 | 0 Comments

CompletelyNovel is an online hub for everyone who loves books. Aspiring writers can go there to upload their work and tap into a host of self-publishing tools for free, such as an online BookStreamer (allowing their work to be embedded around the web in a secure ‘Youtube’ style) and print-on-demand printing. Readers can go to [...]

Young Writers Online

Written by Iain Broome on May 26, 2009 | 0 Comments

Young Writers Online is a website for young writers (from middle school to college ages) designed to provide an avenue for said writers to perfect their craft.  Whether you write novels, short stories, or poetry, in any genre from science fiction to literary fiction, YWO is the place for you. The site currently has two [...]

The Writer’s Handbook

Written by Iain Broome on May 22, 2009 | 0 Comments

The Writer’s Handbook website is a resources site to accompany The Writer’s Handbook 2010 (Macmillan, 2010) now in its 23rd year of publication. Using a code found in the book, users can register for access to a searchable directory of publishers, editors, agents and broadcasters, use a variety of indispensable resources including tips and FAQS, [...]

Writer’s Remorse

Written by Iain Broome on May 21, 2009 | 0 Comments

Tips and advice for freelance writers, as well as reviews of tools and sites.  Plus the Nibby Awards!

Celtx

Written by Iain Broome on May 20, 2009 | 0 Comments

Celtx is a free, open source all-in-one media pre-production software for screenwriting, comic-book writing, playwriting, and audio-visual writing.

yWriter

Written by Iain Broome on May 19, 2009 | 0 Comments

Website of the free yWriter tool, which is a Word Processor for authors. Note: Not available to Mac users.

Writing Forums

Written by Iain Broome on May 12, 2009 | 0 Comments

Highly active writing forum that allows you to communicate with other writers and: “post your own writing for review, read our ezine exclusive author interviews, visit our bookstore, post to your personal writing blog, and enter our frequent short story and poetry writing contests.”

Tumblr

Written by Iain Broome on May 12, 2009 | 1 Comments

Tumblr is a microblogging platform with a social networking community built in. You can use it to meet like-minded writers or as an online scrapbook to keep your thoughts, ideas and anything else you find on the internet. “Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, [...]

Cueprompter

Written by Iain Broome on May 06, 2009 | 0 Comments

CuePrompter is a free teleprompter/autocue service, which makes your browser work like a teleprompter – with no extra software needed. Perfect for radio and live performance, plus a useful tool for developing the rhythm of your writing.

BBC writersroom

Written by Iain Broome on Mar 19, 2009 | 0 Comments

You can’t really go wong with this site from the BBC. It’s packed full of ideas and tutorials, and provides valuable information for UK-based authors in particular. It also runs regular competitions and encourages you to send your manuscript. A quality, reliable source.