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Sat, 01/01/2005 - 1:00am
Writers' Resources has been developed to help writers get published or to self-publish

We have enlisted the help of a number of distinguished writers and publishing figures to develop our Writers' Resources. Over the years this has become a massive resource base for writers.  Read more

Links to sites

Links to websites of interest by category - suggestions always welcome

These are our recommended links to sites of interest to writers, selected by us or suggested by you, accompanied by a brief review.

New links are added all the time,  so it's worth checking the many interesting sites we have added.  Read more

© Chris Holifield 2004-14

Picture library links

Mon, 01/01/2001 - 1:00am
How picture libraries work

The growth of digital technology

With the rapid spread of digital imaging and web use has come a huge change in the way images are sourced through the Internet. Picture researchers of vast experience and encyclopaedic knowledge have been challenged by younger researchers who can undercut them on cost and whose greatest strength is their ability is to find the right image quickly   Read more

Keyboard skills

Mon, 01/01/2001 - 1:00am
Learn to touch-type

The online courses which are available to help you learn to touch-type  Read more

Writers Online Services

Mon, 01/01/2001 - 1:00am

Writers' Blogs

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Links to other web resources

Writers’ Software

Mon, 01/01/2001 - 1:00am
Where to look

There are thousands of products that claim to help writers do their job better, and some of them do just that. But finding the appropriate product for your work can be a trying experience. The web is full of sites offering shiny new software, and there is no easy way to tell if you are buying the right tool for the job.
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15 April 2019 - What's new

April 2019
  • ‘I'm a great believer in turning up still. No forgiving yourself because you are tired. I try to get there before 10, not too early. On those magical writing days you forget you exist and you surface an hour later and you have 400 words you were not expecting to write.
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So what’s wrong with PDFs?

Thu, 18/04/2019 - 11:23am
An editor's take on using pdfs

 

So what's wrong with PDFs?  Read more

'It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word.'

— Zadie Smith

'Turning up'

18 April 2019

‘I'm a great believer in turning up still. No forgiving yourself because you are tired. I try to get there before 10, not too early. On those magical writing days you forget you exist and you surface an hour later and you have 400 words you were not expecting to write. But turning up is certainly the first condition. Work until lunchtime, listen to World at One, have a sandwich. Walk the dog.  Read more