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Writing Resources

I never cease to be amazed and grateful for the resources available on the web for research and writing. Here are a few that I have found to be very useful in my freelance writing.

Writing basics

Alan Cooper's Homonym List

Dictionary and thesaurus

Guide to Grammar and Writing

Grammarly

INDEX to the Guide to Grammar and Writing

Lynchburg College Writing Center Online Guide

Punctuation Made Simple

Purdue's Online Writing

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation

Writer Gazette

MLA Citation Style

MLA Formatting and Style Guide - The OWL at Purdue

Online Technical Writing Online Textbook--Contents

Start with a Story How To Write An Article or Non-Fiction Book That Will Sell Success Tips for Your Opening

Technical and Scientific Writing Handouts (D.G. Jerz)

Technical Writing

The Writer's Craft

The Writing Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Word Frequency Counter

Writers Digest.com

Writing for the web

Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents (Browser safe fonts) - Web design tips & tricks

Writing for the Web

Jacob Nielsen's Writing for Users/Readers

SEO

SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING RESOURCES LIBRARY SEARCH ENGINE WIKI (BETA)

SEO Training from High Rankings with Jill Whalen

SEO Tutorial

Small Business SEO Checklist Search Engine Smarts

Stoney deGeyter - Search Engine Guide Blog

The Best SEO Tools

 

Clipart and photos - be sure to check terms and license before copying. Note these sites do not necessarily offer free images, but their prices for the right to use on commercial sites is relatively low.

123rf

flickr Creative Commons

Stock Photography Search Royalty Free Images & Photos iStockphoto.com

Open Directory - Computers Graphics Clip Art

 

Graphics - color can add visual interest to your writing

Browser safe color palette

Color - HTML Color Charts, Web Design Colors, Browser Safe, Websafe, Web Safe Colors, Psychology, Meanings, Tutorials, Articles

ColorCombos.com - Web Color Combinations Tool and Library

Colors on the Web - Information about colors, color combination, the color wheel, and how to use colors on the internet

ColorToy 2.0 is a Flash based color scheme generator and picker. It generates complementary color schemes based on your inputted color values or randomly.

Colour Numbers - Hexadecimal Color Value Calculator

Ender Design Realm Graphics Web Images

Hexadecimal to RGB Converter, Convert hexadecimal colours codes to decimal colour codes, hex

Visualize color combinations for web-design.

 

 
 

Barbara Brown's freelance writing provides original, researched content for websites and newsletters. Prior to becoming a freelance writer three years ago, she was employed for over 15 years as a writer, knowledge analyst, and project manager.

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