Just Stuff Blog: Flash Fiction or Short Stories Anyone?

Just Stuff Blog: Flash Fiction or Short Stories Anyone?: Makeuseof.com lists 10 websites where you can enjoy flash fiction or short stories. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-websites-enjoy-readi...

Just Stuff Blog: Six Word Stories

Just Stuff Blog: Six Word Stories: "Stories just told in six words." http://www.sixwordstories.net/

20 Websites For Free Ebooks

Writer Kay Tan has provided an extensive link to free e-books on the hongkait.com website. Be sure to review the article 20 Best Websites To Download Free EBooks.

Thanks to Kay Tan!

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/20-best-websites-to-download-free-e-books/

Over 7,000 Free Audio Books

Photo by Kaboompics.com from Pexels

Who wants free public domain audiobooks and ebooks? 

Genres To Choose From
-Top 100
-Children
-Fiction
-Fantasy
-Mystery
-More

Books Available In These Languages
-Chinese
-French
-German
-Italian
-Japanese
-Spanish
-More

Paid books are also available.

At the website, one can download books for iPhone, Android, Kindle & mp3 players.

http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/

75 Top Typography Tutorials

"This round-up of typography tutorials has a central theme of experimentation. Learn how to design a headline typeface, create isometric 3D lettering and to smelt your favourite font."

http://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design-tips/typography-tutorials-1232719

10 Underrated Web Design Tools

CB Creative Blog presents ten underrated web design tools.

UPDATE: New total is 20 - May 23, 2021.

40 Best Free Fonts For Designers

"Get your hands on the best free fonts, from retro inspired type to slap-you-in-the-face slab serifs!

Typography isn't just about communication, it can also add subtle references to the message you're trying to convey. Whole books have been written on the craft and nuanced world of typography and type design, but we're keeping things simple."

Two of my favorites.

Fabrica

Sketchtik Light

http://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design-tips/best-free-fonts-for-designers-1233380

ArticlesBase

• What is ArticlesBase?

• ArticlesBase is a free article directory where you can submit and find articles. You can publish your articles for free or find content for your website, ezine, or newsletter.

• Is ArticlesBase only available in English?

• No, it isn’t. You can also find articles in Spanish, French, Russian, Chinese, and Portuguese.

• May I publish articles I find on ArticlesBase on my website?

• You may add articles to your website as long as you comply with our Terms of Use. Our TOS basically states that you must keep full author credit with all its respective links, a link to ArticlesBase.com, must keep the article intact (no editing)  and keep all links active.

• Does it cost money to submit articles to ArticlesBase?

• No, we do not charge for article publication or pay for submitted content. We run advertising on our site to help us keep the site running free of charge.

• How can I contact the author of an article?

• When you are on the article page, click "Contact Author" on the left side of the page. You may also find additional contact information on the author's bio.

http://www.articlesbase.com/

Amazines

"Amazines.com - The Ultimate Free Article Database.

We offer free articles, free web content, and free article feeds which are submitted by our network of quality registered authors. 
Once registered, our authors are free to submit articles for distribution to Ezines, affiliated websites and anyone else who wishes to use our article database.

We are building the most comprehensive article database that is free and easy to use for the Author to submit and manage articles. And free and easy for the Publisher to use articles on their webpages and include them in Ezines and other publishing mediums."

http://www.amazines.com/

ArticleCity

"Welcome to ArticleCity.com - your one-stop source for free articles."

http://www.articlecity.com/

Free Articles South Africa

“Free Articles South Africa is South Africa's premier articles directory.
These articles & comments are not intended to replace your Financial (or other) Advisor. Always take professional advice before making financial (or other) decisions.

1. open the article
2. read the article
3. make sure you see this at the bottom of the article -  "You are free to publish this article without any change in the content electronically, in print, in your e-book, or on your web site, free of charge, as long as the author resource details are included."

The contents of this webpage are copyright 2012 www.freearticles.co.za and the respective authors. All Rights Reserved.”

http://www.freearticles.co.za/

Easy Writing Templates

"Free writing templates for business, personal and educational use."

http://www.easywritingtemplates.com/

Introducing Parapublishing

From the website-

"Wherever you are in the development of your book (thinking, planning, writing, producing or promoting stage), we have the tools to make your venture faster, easier and more successful. This site has hundreds of pages of information and free documents plus books (both ours and those from other publishers), reports, disks and tapes. Just click on your area in the menu below. For specific information, use the search feature." 

http://www.parapublishing.com

Book Writing Template

Thanks to Dan Poynter who shows you how to write "by-the-Numbers."

Can it really be easy as just fill-in the blanks?

Para Publishing gets thanks too.

Click to download the PDF.

LibriVox?

Photo by Kaboompics .com from Pexels

LibriVox offers free audiobooks.

• "LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books."
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http://librivox.org/

10 Essential Free E-Books for Web Designers

E-books for web designers according to Mashable.

http://mashable.com/2010/08/18/free-ebooks-web-designers/

6 Ways to Publish Your Own Book

Our friends over at Mashable present the article about self publishing companies on the Internet. I'm sure there are more.

Per the article, here are the top six.

6. Xlibris
5. WeBook
4. CafePress
3. CreateSpace
2. Blurb
1. Lulu

http://mashable.com/2009/03/01/publish-book/

Calibre Ebook Management

"Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories:

• Library Management

• E-book conversion

• Syncing to e-book reader devices

• Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form

• Comprehensive e-book viewer

• Content server for online access to your book collection"

http://calibre-ebook.com

The 22 Rules of Storytelling [Infographic]

Nick's Writing Blog has an entry with an infographic showing the 22 rules of storytelling.

http://www.mywritingblog.com/2012/10/the-22-rules-of-storytelling-infographic.html

Instapaper

"A simple tool to save web pages for reading later."

http://www.instapaper.com

Free Audiobooks And Ebooks In One Place

Where can you get such good a good deal? 

Librophile has those FREE audiobooks and ebooks just for you.

They can explain their website better than this lazy blog writer.

What is Librophile.com?

Librophile.com (beta) offers a simple interface for finding completely legal free audiobooks and eBooks. You can browse the latest books, search by keywords or choose more broadly by genre or language. You can often listen to chapters online, download a whole book, play a sample or subscribe using iTunes. Librophile.com is available on both desktop and mobile and our ultimate aim is to provide a one stop shop for all the audiobook and eBooks out there.

How is it free?

The internet is full of free and legal audiobooks and eBooks but finding them can be hard work. We are here to help by constantly looking for you. Librophile.com maintains an extensive archive of over a million publications and is funded mostly by advertising. Our philosophy is to try our very best to locate a free version for you, however, if there are none then we can often recommend a pay book too. Free audiobooks and eBooks are predominantly contributed by the amazing Librivox.org service and the huge Gutenberg library. Pay books are often provided courtesy of the Audible.com and Barnes & Noble affiliate programs. Other sources include Storynory for children's books.

How does it work?

By using free and often open source tools such as jQuery,jPlayer, Apache and MySQL Librophile.com is able to maintain a free and competitive service. In addition, the latest thinking in responsive website design means we have a single build that adapts to best fit almost every platform including the iPhone, iPad and desktop machines. Behind the scenes there are servers continually searching for free audiobooks and eBooks to add to the database.

We do rely on feedback from our users so please do contact us if you have any suggestions for ways to improve our service. All suggestions are welcome so please email us at:info@librophile.com.

http://www.librophile.com/

ClipartOf

I didn't know there were so many clip art websites out there. Don't pretend as if you knew it.

To clarify, the royalty free ones are my favorite. Here's one, ClipartOf.

From their About Us web page.

"We are a digital stock image library offering royalty-free (rf) stock illustrations and clipart from professional illustrators and cartoonists around the world. All of our images are available as posters and art prints as well as digital downloads. Digital files are available to download immediately after purchasing.
A unique thing about ClipartOf.com is that we offer simple licensing; Editorial or Commercial Royalty-Free. Without tricky "extended" or special licenses, we make your job easier! Our competitors have so many different licenses and rules that its confusing and sometimes tricky. Many converted customers have admitted to not understanding the licenses at other sites. We try to make it as simple as possible, and in simple language for you.
Why are we here? We actually do have a reason other than to make a living. After years of witnessing artists being bullied by agencies, and at the begging of artists themselves, we decided to start a business that's ABOUT supporting the artists, not about making a quick buck at the artist's expense. We aren't about low-balling our artists and paying them a measly half a cent for each download, outsourcing jobs to save money, degrading artists by treating them like they are vermin... We are here because the artists ASKED us to be, and we take this very seriously. We let the artist's set their own pricing so they make what they need to, rather than TELL them what they will make, such as other sites do.
Unlike many of our competitors, you will also notice that we provide credit to our artists, rather than to make it look like we own all of the images ourselves. This industry has been taken over by greed, theft and immoral business practices. We stand out because we run ClipartOf quite differently. Take a stand with us! Help support our artists and a moral and small Southern Oregon (yes, American!) based business.
At ClipartOf.com you are getting images direct from the artists and helping support an industry of pure talent."

http://www.clipartof.com/

Fanstory.com - an Effective Tool for Writers?

A member of the Yahoo! Contributor Network wrote an article about Fanstory, answering the question if it is an effective tool for writers.

After reading the article, be sure to read the comments. Some are pro Fanstory, some are con Fanstory, and some are neither.

http://voices.yahoo.com/fanstorycom-effective-tool-writers-1364153.html

Fanstory

"Share your writing, get helpful feedback, and participate in up to 50 writing contests every month."

http://fanstory.com/index.jsp

Photocase

"Stock photography doesn't have to be predictable. If you been looking for fresh and exciting imagery, then stop looking 'cause you just found it. We understand that it's not just about pretty photos, you need to be sure the photos are cleared for any kind of use. We do that for you so all you need to think about is which Photocase photo is best for your website, book cover, ad campaign or whatever else you're up to."

http://www.photocase.com/

MorgueFile Free Photos

"Free images for your inspiration, reference and use in your creative work, be it commercial or not!

Wondering about the morgueFile license? Click here 

It's also easy to add your own photos to the morgueFile. So, give back because this archive is for creatives by creatives.

Why is it called morgue file? Click here and find out."

http://www.morguefile.com/

Photogen Free Hi-Res Stock Photos

"Still paying for your stock photos and images? Forget royalty-free - Photogen images are totally-FREE! Registered users can download and use Photogen stock photos FREE, both for commercial and personal projects.
The Photogen FREE photo gallery is regularly updated with new quality, high-resolution free photos and images. To download you'll need to sign up first, and once you've signed up you can also download multiple images in a ZIP file by using our handy lightbox function.
Just make sure the images are hosted through a secure image hosting company to get the best effects of the photograph downloaded. You can compare reliable cheap hosting plans before selecting one.

Photogen images are free for commercial and personal use.
The images are not for resale, or redistribution. Their download and usage is subject to our Terms of Use."

http://www.photogen.com

Passing On iTunes And Kindle Libraries

Read this article at January Magazine blog to give you a perspective for leaving books and e-books to love ones.

http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2012/08/your-not-so-permanent-library.html

Mayang's Free Textures

This texture library has over 4350 free to download, high-resolution textures.

Mayang's free texture library is online at www.mayang.com/textures

Fotolia

Fotolia claims to offer 18,208,761 royalty free stock photos.  This stock photo site has a pay as you go plan, as well as a subscription plan. Currently the pay as you go plan starts as low as .75 cents.


http://us.fotolia.com/

List of Royalty Free Photos

Freebyte.com has a lengthy list of URLs for royalty free photos. Be sure to check if the free photos are available for commercial use, or just for personal use.

http://www.freebyte.com/clipart_images_photos_icons/#photo

Pixabay

"Finding free quality photos is mostly a tedious task - due to copyrights, required attribution or, well, lack of quality. Therefore, we decided to create Pixabay - a repository for extraordinary high-quality public domain images.

 You can freely use any image from this website in digital and printed format for personal and commercial use without attribution to the original author.

  Join us! You can upload and share your own photos. Pixabay is available in 20 languages, thus the whole world benefits from your contribution!

Read our Terms for further details."

http://pixabay.com/

Need Royalty Free Clip Art?

The online royalty free public domain clip art is at Clker.com.

http://www.Clker.com

Looking For Documents And Books?

Scribd.com describes itself as the website with "millions of documents and books at your fingertips! Read, print, download, and send them to your mobile devices instantly. Or upload your PDF, Word, and PowerPoint docs to share them with the world's largest community of readers."

Categories and store to purchase documents/books:

• School Work
 · 
• How-To Guides/Manuals
 · 
• Business/Law
 · 
• Books - Non-fiction
 · 
• Presentations
 · 
• Spreadsheets
 · 
• Store

http://www.scribd.com/

Movellas Community Stories Site

"Movellas.com is a community site where everyone can share their passion for great stories. You can publish your own stories - or movellas as we like to call them - so that everyone can read them and give you feedback, you can find lots of fantastic stories to read in every genre and on every topic, and you can talk directly to the authors and the rest of the community about writing and stories.
With Movellas it is possible to read anywhere, anytime. You can download movellas as ebooks to your computer, tablet, iPad, iPod Touch, e-book-reader or smart phone. Quick, easy and totally free!

At Movellas everyone can be a writer and publish their stories. Neither age nor experience are essential. All that we require is that you love to write and share your stories."

This site also has competitions for writers to enter.

Categories on the site:

• Romance

• Fan Fiction

• Humour

• Thriller & Horror

• Realism

• Fantasy

• Poetry

• Mystery & Suspense

• Diary

http://www.movellas.com/

Wattpad - Discover a World of Unlimited Stories

"Wattpad is the world's largest community for discovering and sharing stories on the web and across every mobile device. It’s a new form of collaborative entertainment that connects readers and writers through storytelling and creative fiction! Wattpad is the only place offering a mobile, social, eReading experience."

http://www.wattpad.com

Make Your Own Word Clouds

"Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends."

http://www.wordle.net/