Friday Poll ~ What Writer’s Resources Do You Use?

Let’s start with the results of the first of last week’s polls—What Are You Writing Now? 

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Either there aren’t many folks writing now or the poll wasn’t interesting enough to answer :-)

[Edit after I published this, from a Twitter friend:
“writers don’t want to share. The book is to be published but the Idea before that is kept close.”]

Here are the five responses:

“Nothing; just finished the publishing stage”

“microfiction expanded”

“Compilation of Sermons to Share”

“urban fantasy/science fiction”

“my blog”

And, for the second of last week’s polls—What Are You Planning to Write?

Here are the responses:

“a crime novel with historical background”

“micro novel”

“more books set in my universe”

“Sci-Fi/Dectective”

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Now, perhaps, this week’s poll will be of more interest—What Writer’s Resources Do You Use?

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A Great Place for Writers (And, Readers) To Buy Professional Books

Quoted from the March post, How Do Words Get Into A Dictionary?:

“I subscribe to the Oxford Dictionary Pro but their free online edition of the Oxford Dictionary is good, too.

“Naturally, the dictionary is managed by the University of Oxford—”It is the oldest university in the English-speaking world, and the second-oldest surviving university in the world.”

“Oxford actually has 58 different services you can subscribe to…”

They also have a Book Store.

Here are the categories:

• Personal Subscriptions
  • • Arts & Humanities
    • Dictionaries & Reference
    • Medicine & Health

  Social Sciences

Those are from the USA site.

If you want a different country, go here and click on the little flag, then enter your country :-)

There’s one particular selection I’m drooling over (maybe someday I can afford it…):

Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary

With Additional Material from A Thesaurus of Old English

Edited by Christian Kay, Jane Roberts, Michael Samuels, and Irené Wotherspoon

• A unique thesaurus resource – the very first historical thesaurus to be compiled for any of the world’s languages
• The largest thesaurus resource in the world, covering more than 920,000 words and meanings from Old English to the present day based, on the Oxford English Dictionary
• Synonyms listed with dates of first recorded use in English, in chronological order, with earliest synonyms first
• Uses a thematic system of classification, with synonyms and related words forming part of a detailed semantic hierarchy
• Comprehensive index enables complete cross-referencing of nearly one million words and meanings
• Contains a comprehensive sense inventory of Old English
• Includes a free fold-out color chart which shows the top levels of the classification structure
• Made up of two volumes: The main text, comprising numbers sections for semantic categories, and the index, comprising a full A-Z look up of nearly one million lexical items

* Hardcover
* 3952 Pages
* 8 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches
$495.00

So…

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Are You A Writer? Do You Use Twitter? Is There A Better Use of Your Time?

“Simple” post today…

First a “confession”—I tried Twitter three times, each attempt spurred by a “revelation” about its usefulness…

It may be critically valuable for others but not for me…

Though I can still question the “value” others find in it, I use it very indirectly now—having all my work on Scoop.It automatically fed into Twitter…

I can sum-up my doubts of Twitter’s “value” by saying that a hundred fans that truly care is worth far more than thousands that sorta “care”.

Still, if you do see value in Twitter, nay more, if you are having great fun and making real friends, you may find a list of hashtags for writers helpful…

voilà:

 

#1K1H (write 1,000 words in one hour)
#ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers)
#AmEditing
#AmWriting
#AskAgent
#AskAuthor
#AskEditor
#Author
#Authors

#BookGiveaway
#BookMarketing

#Creativity

#EBooks
#Editing

#FictionFriday
#fridayflash (flash fiction on a Friday)
#FridayReads
#FollowFriday (or #FF)

#GetPublished

#IndieAuthors
#IndiePub (or #IndiePublishing)

#MGLit (Middle Grade Lit)
#MustRead

#nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month)
#novels
#novelists

#poem
#poet
#poets
#poetry
#pubtip publication tips
#publishing

#PromoTip

#scifi
#selfpublishing

#RomanceWriter
#RWA (Romance Writers of America)

#SCBWI (Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators)
#SciFiChat
#SelfPublishing
#StoryFriday
#StoryStarter

#vss (very short story)

#WIP (work in progress)
#WordAThon
#WordCount
#WriteChat
#WritersLife
#WriterWednesday (or #WW)
#WriteTip
#WritingParty
#WritingPrompt
#WritingTip
#webfic web fiction
#weblit web literature
#wip work in progress
#wordcount
#writegoal
#writequote
#writer
#writers
#WriterWednesday (or #WW)
#writetip (writing advice)
#writing
#writingtips (writing advice)
#wrotetoday

The following are chats that take place on Twitter, but are still good writer resources:

#BookMarket (Thursdays at 4 pm ET)
#JournChat
#KidlitChat
#LitChat (every M/W/F)

#scifichat
#scribechat
#storycraft
#writechat
#yalitchat (young adult literature chat)

#MemoirChat (every other Wednesday at 8 pm ET)

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