MuseTracks Link of the Week – KindleGraph

Want to get an autograph on your favorite e-book on your Kindle but don’t know how? Are you e-published and want to know how you can offer a signature on your digital works available on the Kindle? Check out this awesome and FREE site!

You can get and make personalized inscriptions that go directly to e-reading device. How cool is that?

http://www.kindlegraph.com/

Try it out and request a signed cover from me.

http://www.kindlegraph.com/authors/jbrayweber

Link Of The Week

http://750words.com/about

I’m so excited I found this link for this week! It was based on an exercise given in The Artists Way called Morning Pages. The idea is to write 750 words everyday about anything- no censuring. It’s a daily free for all! Your words could be brainstorming something from your project or it could be about anything rumbling around in your head.

What about a blog? Tumbler? Well, these are possible avenues but what happens if you forget to push the “private” button? This site allows you to write and keep it to yourself but all in one place where you can check back over your words. Enjoy!!!

“I’ve long been inspired by an idea I first learned about in The Artist’s Way called morning pages. Morning pages are three pages of writing done every day, typically encouraged to be in “long hand”, typically done in the morning, that can be about anything and everything that comes into your head. It’s about getting it all out of your head, and is not supposed to be edited or censored in any way. The idea is that if you can get in the habit of writing three pages a day, that it will help clear your mind and get the ideas flowing for the rest of the day. Unlike many of the other exercises in that book, I found that this one actually worked and was really really useful.

I’ve used the exercise as a great way to think out loud without having to worry about half-formed ideas, random tangents, private stuff, and all the other things in our heads that we often filter out before ever voicing them or writing about them. It’s a daily brain dump. Over time, I’ve found that it’s also very helpful as a tool to get thoughts going that have become stuck, or to help get to the bottom of a rotten mood.”

MuseTracks Link of the Week – UK Translator

Don’t people in the Untied Kingdom speak English? Well, sorta.

I found this really cool site that translates text into various dialects from the British Isles. You can talk, email, and text in Cockney, Irish, Scottish, Yorkshire, Royalty, and more. It’s purely for entertainment and loads of fun. I couldn’t stop playing around with the Jolly Well Spoken translator.

Try it out . Absolutely top hole – I have to say.

http://www.whoohoo.co.uk/

Link Of The Week

 

 

 

This is a gem of a web site. It’s almost like a clearing house for a bunch of places that would benefit or interest a writer. **Be sure to check out World Book Night**

http://websitesforwriters.net/

MuseTracks Link of the Week – Editing

Here’s a cool link. Pro Writing Aid is a great companion to any writer’s toolkit. This handy-dandy site is software that edits writing. It gives reports on overused word, sentence variation, cliches, redundancies, repeated words and phrases, alliterations, pacing, and much more. Just paste in your text and Wha-lah! You’ll see the areas needing improvements.

Free editing software

Check it out and see if it works for you.

Link Of The Week

http://www.averycan.blogspot.com/

Today’s link has absolutely nothing to do with writing. It has everything to do with appreciating your life and celebrating every moment that has been given you and your family.

Celebrate your bucket list!

Celebrate the quiet everyday moments you have with people you love.

Link of the Week – The First Line

We’ve all heard that the first line in a book is so important. A writer only has seconds to grab an audience, to make them want to read further. This week’s link does something different with the first line.

The First Line is a literary journal of short stories each staring with the same beginning line.

http://www.thefirstline.com/index.htm

And I quote…”The First Line is an exercise in creativity for writers and a chance for readers to see how many different directions we can take when we start from the same place.“

Any writer, no matter their genre or writing style, can submit to the magazine. It’s truly a fun experience and I highly recommend writers to try their hand at this unique journal’s prompts.

Link Of The Week

http://www.writersdigest.com/competitions/writers-digest-annual-competition
WRITER’S DIGEST ANNUAL WRITING COMPETITION

Enter the 81st Annual Writing Competition and gain access to agents, to editors, to your peers, to readers. Winning entries will be on display in the 81st Annual Writer’s Digest Competition Collection and entrants will gain the spotlight they deserve.

Compete and Win in 10 Categories!
Inspirational Writing (Spiritual/Religious)
Memoirs/Personal Essay
Magazine Feature Article
Genre Short Story (Mystery, Romance, etc.)
Mainstream/Literary Short Story
Rhyming Poetry
Non-rhyming Poetry
Stage Play
Television/Movie Script
Children’s/Young Adult Fiction
Entry Fee
Entries: $25 for the first manuscript; $15 for each additional entry submitted during the same transaction.
Poems: $15 for the first entry; $10 for each additional poem submitted submitted during the same transaction.
Prizes
GRAND PRIZE:
individual attention from 4 editors or agents
a trip to the Writer’s Digest Conference in New York City
$3,000 cash
First Place: $1,000 cash and $100 off WD Shop purchase

Second Place: $500 cash and $100 off WD Shop purchase

Third Place: $250 cash and $100 off WD Shop purchase

Fourth Place: $100 cash and $50 off WD Shop purchase

Fifth Place: $50 cash and $50 off WD Shop purchase

Sixth through Tenth Place: $25 cas

MuseTracks Link of the Week – Pirate Fun

Continuing my rise to pirate domination and with my upcoming release of A KISS IN THE WIND, the second book in my Romancing the pirate series, I give you the official Talk Like A Pirate website.

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html

This fun site not only promotes Talk Like a Pirate day (which is September 19th) but it also offers fun games, pirate booty, links, booty, education, songs, and much more. You can even learn the best pirate pick-up lines! (Been checking out this website for years – lol)

Enjoy!

Coming March 26th!

Link Of The Week

Are you short on critique partners? Do you just not want to share your writing yet, but need some kind of feedback? Well, I’ve got a site made for you! Check this out-

http://www.autocrit.com/