Links For Writers

 People ready to bring their brilliant ideas to the page will find guidance at Original Impulse. Certified coach Cynthia Morris provides e-books, seminars, coaching and free articles to facilitate the often challenging work of writing and creating.

 Technical Writer Jobs has a decent listing of full-time and contract tech writing jobs across the country.

 Tech "Whirl" has great posts with helpful articles, tips and techniques for technical writers.

 Indoition Engineering - Software Documentation" has fantastic information for technical communicators, including a documentation quailty checklist and advice on choosing help authoring and screen capture tools.

 WritersMarket.com has a lot of specific resources for marketing your work.

 VIP Authors has solid information about publishing. You get a couple of free reports when you sign up for the Thursday newsletter.

 WriteToDone.com has bi-weekly posts all about writing. All genres can get value from what Leo has to say.

 Writers Weekly is run by a Publishing-on-Demand company, but they have a slew of great stuff here. The weekly newsletter is like none other.

 Posts from Anne Wayman at AboutFreelanceWriting.com include some useful ebooks and a must-have weekly newsletter to which you may subscribe at her site.

 Harlan Coben's The Key to My Father. Just grand.

 The Writer's Center of Indiana. Workshops, readings, events in Indianapolis.

 Annual Short Fiction Contest at Ink Well Journal.

 Contests throughout the year and a whole lot more, including online classes and workshopsat http://www.writersdigest.com.

 WorldWide Freelance Writer has a free newsletter andmarkets databasesto find places looking for your writing. Ebooks and articles and forums, too.

 C. Hope Clark's Funds For Writers has newsletters and blog posts about grants for writers. She's a little full of herself, but she's a machine at keeping up-to-date on things.

 Fun stuff. Lousy Writer. A great place to get grammar and writing help.

 Inspiring ByLines Writer's Desk Calendar is written by writers for writers. A must have.

 Really fun stuff. Writing White Papers. A little late at night reading. But really useful information, especially if you don't write white papers on an everyday basis.

 Unlikely Success Story #1 (and smokin' hot), Tom Bodett.

 Unlikely Success Story #2, Philip Gulley.

 Unlikely Success Story #3, and my personal FAVE (and 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner), Elizabeth Strout.

Links Not Necessarily For Writers

 Web Designer Extraordinaire, Melody Watson. Uncommonly creative, yet somehow specializes in the intricacies of SquareSpace.James Radin Design from Something's Gotta Give

 Public Relations expert, Lisa Munniksma's Communication Simplified. She does just that and makes it look easy.

 Cynthia Morris - coach, writer, teacher, traveler, mentor - has two sites: Original Impulse and Journey JuJu.

 Franciscan artist, Sandra Schweitzer, creates beautiful and spiritual drawings, paintings, ceramics, and graphic designs for stained glass, prayer prints, promotional materials and much more. Check out Studio TAU.

 Warm and fuzzy site from The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation. Seriously, warm and fuzzy. In a good way.

 A must add to your daily surfing - the Good News Network has positive stories and videos. Guaranteed to lower blood pressure. Well, this and medication.

 Creative Numerology. I don't know why, it's just fun. She's great at keeping it updated, too!

 This Interfaith Calendar for each year. Really interesting!

 Positive, uplifting goings-on at Happy News.