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Collection of Killer Writing Tips | Wordpreneur

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http://www.languageisavirus.com/ The cutup is a mechanical method of juxtaposition in which Burroughs literally cuts up passages of prose by himself and other writers and then pastes them back together at random...

Cure writer's block with writing prompts - writing tips character name generator

WordNet® is a large lexical database of English. http://wordnet.princeton.edu/

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Give your favorite somebody your favorite word map! Now you can order a Visual Thesaurus word map on a t-shirt, mug, even a postage stamp. Simply search for a word, click on the "Share" button on top right hand of the Visual Thesaurus window, and follow the easy steps.

Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map.

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Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus

Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.
Urban Dictionary : The online verbal assault that grows by the minute. http://www.urbandictionary.com/

Urban Dictionary, January 19: Premature exasperation

http://www.rhymer.com/ End Rhymes (blue/shoe) Words with ending rhyme have the same final vowel sound and following consonant sound(s). For example, if you enter the word laughter under this option, Rhymer retrieves a list of words with the ending sound er (e.g., admirer, doctor, pleasure, scholar, watercolor, and were).

FREE Online Rhyming Dictionary

story telling

collaborative storytelling

Narratology

B ecoming a published author is easier now than it’s ever been, particularly if you’ve got the itch to write an ebook. With more than 50 digital readers competing for consumer attention, the market is ripe for affordable Web-based writing and there is no shortage of ebookstores to sell it in, whether it’s fiction or nonfiction, a short story collection or scintillating set of essays. http://www.socialbrite.org/2010/12/17/guide-to-publishing-a-successful-ebook/

Guide to publishing a successful ebook

My buddha at Copyblogger says… “On average, 8 out of 10 people will read headline copy, but only 2 out of 10 will read the rest. This is the secret to the power of the headline, and why it so highly determines the effectiveness of the entire piece.” http://pushingsocial.com/17-crazy-places-to-get-jaw-dropping-headline-ideas

17 Crazy Places to Get Jaw Dropping Headline Ideas

Transmission Model of Communication

Here I will outline and critique a particular, very well-known model of communication developed by Shannon and Weaver (1949), as the prototypical example of a transmissive model of communication: a model which reduces communication to a process of 'transmitting information'. The underlying metaphor of communication as transmission underlies 'commonsense' everyday usage but is in many ways misleading and repays critical attention.
If you want people to actually read your e-newsletter instead of deleting it from their inbox, you need to make it worth their time. You need to provide a valuable and useful gift. That means NO “free” white papers on “how to make make your Twitter account reach 10,000 followers”.

Top 3 Tips To Make Your E-Newsletter A Success « idaconcpts

Language

Call it ingenious, call it evil or call it a little of both: Copyright troll Righthaven is exploiting a loophole in intellectual property law, suing websites that might have avoided any trace of civil liability had they spent a mere $105. That’s the fee for a blog or other website to register a DMCA takedown agent with the U.S.

The $105 Fix That Could Protect You From Copyright-Troll Lawsuits | Threat Level | Wired.com

publishing

WRITING

Listening Effectively by Maddie Grant on Prezi

Presentation based on Humanize: How People-centric Organizations Succeed in a Social World for the US Air Force Public Affairs Professional Development Seminar, November 16, 2011
write online articles

Journalism

blogging