Resources

 

Welcome. What follows is a collection of favorite or intriguing resources my clients and I have put together over time.

 

I hope you'll discover something new and useful here!

-Marla

 

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Productivity & Project Management

The Brain.com - Visual Information Management

Getting Things Done - Gmail Inbox (Firefox add-on)

TaskPaper (simplified to-do lists, for Mac)

 

 

Meditation (Basic Instruction)

 

• Insight Meditation
• Body Scan Meditation

 

Magazines

• Poets & Writers

• Writer's Digest

• The Writer's Chronicle

• The Writer Magazine

• Poetry Magazine

 

 

On Books & Publishing

 

Books - New York Times

The New York Review of Books

LiveWires

 

Writing Tools & Software

 

Write Everyday (online timer and writing prompt)

Scrivener (project-management & word-processing tools)

WriteRoom ("spartan writing utopia," says one reviewer)

Dark Room (distraction-free writing environment)

• for more info, see this blog post

StorySpace (hypertext writing environment)

 

 

Notable Resources On the Craft of Writing

 

Ira Glass's Manifesto, in 3 parts

 

 

Accountability, Community

 

National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo)

National Novel Writing Month

National Playwriting Month

6-Week Coaching Groups for Writers

 

 

For Freelancers

MediaBistro.com

Help a Reporter Out

Freelance Success

WritersWeekly

Worldwide Freelance Writer

 

 

Platform Building

"Take Your Writing Career to the Next Level with Social Media" - Kathy Sena

Christina Katz

 

 

Reference, Research & Misc.

Literary Hypertext

American Memory Historical Collections - Library of Congress

"Economic Crisis, Civil Society & Creativity" - Jeremy Nowak

Visual Thesaurus

 

 

My Bookshelf (coming soon - stay tuned)

 

 

 

 

To suggest a resource, please email me at marla@coachmarla.com.