Thanks to everyone who entered the Readers are Smart Giveaway in celebration of YOU, my 300+ followers! The winner(s) are announced below…but first!
L’Aussie alerted me to a very cool resource for writers. Do you ever feel like there are so many awesome blog posts out there, and not enough time to read them? I DO ALL THE TIME. Do you ever gnash your teeth when you stumble across a writing issue, and remember reading a great post about it, but can’t find it again to save your soul? Yeah, me too.
Elizabeth Spann Craig and Mike Fleming joined forces to create a search engine for writers and dubbed it the Writer’s Knowledge Base. Sort of like Wikipedia for Writers, only it’s really Google for Writers … you just need to check it out …
Here’s an example:
I type Plotting and WKB comes back with:
Avoid 5 Plotting Mistakes (which is part of an 8 post series)
…and 669 more results.
When I try the same thing in Google, I get the definition of plotting in the dictionary, and 10 ways to tell if your cat is plotting to kill you. Intriguing, but not very helpful.
I think Writer’s Knowledge Base is pure genius! It’s my new best friend.
On to the winners!
Winner of the Book of Your Choice is … Shannon O’Donnell!
Winner of a 20 page crit from yours truly is … Pk Hrezo!
Meanwhile, the fun continues …
Season of Love Giveaway (Life, Liberty, and Pursuit plus candy!) goes until February 10th!
And Omnific’s Lookin’ for Love Webhunt (a full set of Omnific titles) goes until February 14th!
Happy Weekend!
Wow, that is an awesome find! Just last night christy and I were discussing the various forms and misuses of have/had (yeah, we're exciting that way, hehe) and a google search gave us mostly I had s*x with _____ sites. Not what we had in mind at all!! This resource will be very helpful, thanks!
Congrats to the winners!
erica
So happy for the winners!! Shannon and PK…YAY! And thank you for that amazing link. I'll be linking it to my blog for sure!
@Erica and Christy LOL! I'm glad I can help you around the s*x sites! π
@Sheri I'm glad you like it! Thanks for stopping by!! π
YAY to your winners and thanks for the heads up on the knowledge base – I'd heard about it but only briefly so this was helpful!
Congrats to the winners and thanks for the heads up about the writer's knowledge base. It sounds like a great resource.
Congrats to the winners! I'm going to check out the Knowledge Base now. It sounds like an awesome resource!
#1. THANK YOU!!!!!!! π
#2. I am in officially in love with WKB. I'm off to bookmark and explore. Thanks, Susan. Have a great weekend.
@Lindsay, lotus, Nicole and Shannon – I'm so glad you guys like the WKB! If a resource is good, we should support it (to keep it around!!). Happy Weekend!
YAY!! This is great news!! Thank you! And fantastic links!
Oh and congrats on 300 … er, uh mke that 304. Outstanding!
Susan,
I'm the developer of the WKB and would like to thank you for blogging about it. It makes me very happy that so many are finding it useful.
There's a Facebook fan page if you're into that: http://www.facebook.com/pages/WritersKB/128813660518131.
Also, just last night I added a new link to the page that highlights the top 100 articles in the database. Here's a quick link to it: http://bit.ly/eI49xq
Anyway, thanks again and if anyone has any feature requests I'm all ears.
Congrats to the winners!
And I love the new search engine – it's awesome! π
My love affair with random.org is over. It was good while it lasted.
π
Seriously, though, congrats to the winners! And Google for writers sounds pretty cool… but how am I gonna get any work done with so much writer talk at my fingertips?
Oh, and I ordered McKee's Story. π There's nothing like getting a book in the mail…
@PK Thanks! And thanks for being gracious about the crit! π
@Mike Thanks for stopping by! It's really a cool site you've put together, and I can only imagine how much work must have gone into it! Ranking the top posts is a great idea! π
@Jemi Thanks for stopping by!
@Bryan Alas, the Gods of Randomosity have not been kind to you lately. And I was just thumbing through McKee's book again today, as I embark on another round of revisions and story-shaping. I'll be very curious to hear what you think of Story.
congrats to the winners!!!
thanks for the link susan!
*adds imediately to favorites bar!*
YaY for Shannon and PK!
That sounds like a great writer resource, Sue! Thanks for sharing….
@aspiring I think WKB is going to really take off! π
@Sharon Thanks for stopping by! π
Thanks for the tip! This looks like a great resource. Adding it to my list!