Links

Better Living

• Listen to Old Time Radio dramas like Dragnet & The Lone Ranger. You won’t regret it.
• Dr. Mike Evans’ 15 minute video on Healthy Eating 101. Entertaining and to the point.
• Jane McGonigal’s TEDtalk on The game that can give you 10 extra years of life.
• The Art of Manliness blog on 100 Skills Every Man Should Know.
• Sources of Insight

Photography

Up your game with images in three easy steps:

1. Pick a colour palette from Adobe or color-hex.
2. Search TinEye Labs for neat Flickr images.
3. Create a spiffy social media image with Buffer’s Pablo.

Or if you just want some free-ish images to use:

• Search Flickr for Creative Commons pictures.
• Search Pixabay for attribution-free images.
• If you’re still stuck, you can find more free images via Creative Commons.

Or you could just take pictures yourself: 11 Gear-Free Photography Hacks.

Productivity

• Bullet Journal
• PocketMod
• Plaintext Productivity
• Todo.txt
• Trello
• 30 Days of Getting Results
• Lifehacker
• Scott Hanselman’s Complete List of Productivity Tips
• Productivity 101: How to Use Personal Kanban to Visualize Your Work
• Get 1% Better Every Day: The Kaizen Way to Self-Improvement
• How and Why to Improve Your Cursive Penmanship

Profiles

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Linkedin
• Amazon
• Smashwords
• Goodreads
• NaNoWriMo
• GitHub
• SportStats
• Gravatar

Teknobabelfish

• Prose.io
• Twitter Card Validator
• Pandoc
• ManageFlitter
• Jekyll Skinny Bones
• Jekyll on Windows
• Jekyll on Stack Overflow
• IFTTT - If This Then That
• Google Custom Search
• Google Fonts
• Google Analytics
• Facebook Open Graph Debugger
• Chocolatey
• Don’t be a parasite. Ebook Formats, DRM and You — A Guide for the Perplexed.

Writecraft

• Pick through a collection of the best articles at Write.pls.
• Check out Changing Minds’ Storytelling collection.
• Check out the Canadian Government’s collection of Writing Tools.
• Chuck Wendig’s blog: 100 Random Storytelling Thoughts and Tips.
• Randy Ingermanson: Snowflake Method & Writing the Perfect Scene.
• The Write Practice blog: How to Write a Story 101 - Conflict & Character.
• K.M. Weiland’s blog: How To Structure - Story, Scenes & Character Arcs.

Writespiration

• Join the fantastic community at Writer’s Carnival.
• Flex your penmonkey muscles with Writer’s Digests’ Creative Writing Prompts.
• Read short fiction and poetry at Long Story Short & Reader’s Carnival.
• Adapt/mashup fairy tales from The Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Anderson.

Writetools

• Bone up on your Markdown Syntax.
• Richard Dooling: Plain Text For Authors & Writers.
• Matthew Lowes: Plain Text for Writers - Part One, Part Two, & Part Three.
• Ian Hocking: Writing a Novel Using Markdown - Part One & Part Two.
• Puppet Labs: How We Automated Our Ebook Builds With Pandoc and KindleGen.
• Write and proofread with Hemingway Editor or just proofread with Slick Write.
• Structured writing studios: yWriter and Scrivener + templates.