Inkygirl: Daily Diversions For Writers

Apologies for the dearth of postings; I’ve been sick. See my Blatherings today. Also behind in e-mail; thanks for your patience.

My friend David Brake has inspired me to create my own Frappr! map. I’ll echo what David posted in his blog:
“Just for fun and to give me an idea of who visits my site and why, I have put up a Frappr! map for this blog which I encourage you to visit and add yourself [...]

The Internet Writing Journal has a great article by Claire White called The Author’s Dilemma: To Blog or Not to Blog.

The Phrase Thesaurus will generate a list of phrases and sayings related to a word you enter. “This writer’s resource uses a unique intelligent search function to locate related phrases from whatever you input. Behind the search is a database of the largest collection of English-language phrases and sayings available on the Internet.”
Interesting idea, [...]

From Angela Hoy: “Let’s face it. We’re all going to fly away someday. Protect your interests, and your baby (your book), and most importantly your heirs before you take off.” For useful tips on how you can protect your writing, read her blog post When authors die…what happens to their books?

Way back when Inkspot just got started, Dawn Groves promoted my site in her book, Writer’s Guide to the Internet. Dawn moved onto other writing projects and also produces a new podcast, Write Now.
“It’s a 3-minute podcast to help writers keep going on their projects. I’ve done three of them so far: Begin with [...]