web stuff 4 writers

There are some great writing-related resources and reads on the internet.  The difficult thing is finding them! 

Here’s a couple that I’ve come across while surfing the web this week. 

• On the BBC website, they’re reporting on the demise of the hyphen.  In the latest Shorter Oxford Dictionary, hyphens have been removed from words such as pigeon-hole and ice-cream.  The story suggests that blame should be assigned to the slap-dash (thought perhaps without the dash) nature of electronic communication.
• Linda of MidLifeWriter.com has Five Ways to Break Through Your Writer’s Block and Get Your Book Started Now!  Her fifth point about starting a book as a blog hit home to me.  A lot of people (and I’m usually one of them) find it easier to write 500 word blog posts, rather than opening up MS Word and writing 500 words of fiction.  Of course, if you’re writing a book that you then intend to submit for publication, it’s probably worth making all your posts password protected.

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