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A favorite
quote about a time I remember well:
"...Soon
there will be no one who remembers when spaceflight was still
a dream, the reverie of reclusive boys and the vision of a handful
of men. Most of those who met in ardent little groups in small
cafes between the world wars, planning voyages to the moon and
planets that they never hoped to witness, are no longer living.
And the last lonely boy to lie in a cricket-pulsing, honeysuckle
night and gaze at a virgin moon is now in the latter years of
his life. On the yellowed pages of boyhood books, the silver
ships still poise sleek and needle-nosed on the craggy wastes
of other worlds -- on alien moonscapes, bathed in the stark and
eerie light of some monster planet whose ring-shadowed hemisphere
fills the whole horizon, bulging into the black sky like a great
golden bubble, looming behind spacesuited specks who wander ant-like
across the incandescent night.... It was a dream of visible planets
impossibly distant, of fantastic alien surfaces, of a Tom Sawyer's
island or an Emerald City of Oz, awaiting for eons the beaching
of man's boats. It was a vision of steaming Venusian jungles,
and fine soft days on the green hills of Mars, cooled by coastal
breezes from the Great Canal, looking over a far desert where
ruins stood half in sand...."
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Note:
WordPerfect X8 (released April 2016) now includes some new template projects: APA Report, MLA Report, and Turabian Report.
- APA Style - Purdue University Online Writing Lab (Research and Citation Resources) for the APA Style, MLA Style, and Chicago Manual of Style.
APA Style Essentials - Douglas Degelman, PhD; Vanguard University of Southern California.
APA
Style Resources - http://www.psychwww.com/resource/apacrib.htm
- Some links to American Psychological Association
style guides and help sheets on the internet.
- Also: "A Guide for Writing Research
Papers" (APA) - Several university sites host a document with this title.
- Agent
Research & Evaluation
- http://www.agentresearch.com/
- Bitstream
Fonts - http://www.bitstream.com/
Book Designer - http://www.thebookdesigner.com/
category/book-construction-blueprint/ -
"Book Construction Blueprint series"
- Book Designer - http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2009/09/parts-of-a-book/" -
- "Self-Publishing Basics: An Unabridged List of the Parts of a Book"
- BookWire
Homepage - http://www.bookwire.com/
- Brief Citation Guide for Internet
Sources in History and the Humanities - http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~africa/citation.html
- Butterick's Practical Typography - http://practicaltypography.com/ - "Typography is the visual component of the written word".
- Chicago Style - http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocChicago.html
- Chicago Manual of Style - http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
- Documenting (Citing) Electronic
Sources - http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/584/01/
- Copyright Law in the United States (BitLaw) - http://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/
- Creative
Freelancers
- http://www.freelancers1.com/
- Critters Workshop for SF, Fantasy,
Horror writers
- http://brain-of-pooh.tech-soft.com/users/critters/
- EndNote - http://www.niles.com/ - Software
"to search online bibliographic databases, organize their
references, and create bibliographies instantly and automatically."
Over 500 styles for various disciplines.
- European
Federation of Intellectual Property - http://www.efipweb.org
- ForWriters.com - http://forwriters.com/
Gentium font
-
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=gentium
- A good substitute for Times Roman, it is "a [free, open source]
typeface family designed to enable the diverse ethnic groups around the
world who use the Latin, Cyrillic and Greek scripts to produce
readable, high-quality publications. It supports a wide range of Latin-
and Cyrillic-based alphabets." Try the Gentium Basic and the slightly
heavier weighted Gentium Book Basic.
- How to Set Rates FAQ - The HTML
Writers Guild
- http://www.hwg.org/resources/faqs/ratesFAQ.html
- International
Trademark Association
- http://www.inta.org/
- iUniverse - http://www.iuniverse.com/
- For new and out of print authors - A partnership with Barnes
& Noble, Writers Digest - Get published on the web!
- MLA Formatting and Style Guide - https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
- MasterFreelancers Web Store for Writers - http://www.masterfreelancer.com/
- Oxbridge
Communications
- http://www.oxbridge.com/ - Publishers of the Standard periodical
Directory
- Proper manuscript format by William Shunn - http://www.shunn.net/format.html
- Resumesplus.com - http://www.resumesplus.com/
Rhymer -
http://www.writeexpress.com/rhyming-dictionary.html
- Rumored to be the same program that shipped with some early
DOS (WPCorp) versions of WordPerfect
- Richard
Lederer's Verbivore
- http://www.verbivore.com/ - "If you are heels over head
(as well as head over heels) in love with words, tarry here a
while to graze or, perhaps, feast on the English language. ..."
- Science
Fiction Resource Guide
- http://sf.emse.fr/SFRG/
- Science
Fiction Writers of America
- http://www.sfwa.org/
- The
Authors Guild Online
- http://www.authorsguild.org/
- The
HTML Writers Guild
- http://www.hwg.org/
- The Online Communicator - http://www.online-communicator.com/toppage.html
- The
Publishing Law Center
- http://www.publaw.com/
- The Writers Store - http://www.writerscomputer.com/
- U.S. Copyright Office Home Page - http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/
- U.S. Government Printing Office Style
Manual -
- (or search the main site: https://www.gpo.gov) - "... The Style Manual is the product of many years of
public printing experience, and its rules are based on principles
of good usage and custom in the printing trade. The Style Manual
has served Federal printers since 1894, and with this 29th edition,
the traditions of printing and graphic arts are carried forward
into new technologies."
- Warnings
and Cautions for Writers
- http://www.sfwa.org/beware/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers
of America - Warnings About Literary Fraud and Other Schemes,
Scams, and Pitfalls That Target Writers
- William Shunn - http://www.shunn.net/format/wp.html
- William Shunn's WordPerfect template and macros for automating
short story manuscripts.
- World Building Sites and Blogs - http://www.enderra.com/world-building-resources/
world-building-sites-blogs/
- Writer's
Blocks software for writers
- http://www.writersblocks.com/
- Writer's
Digest - http://www.writersdigest.com/
- Writers
Guild of America
- http://www.wga.org/
- Writers.Net
Internet Resource for Writers, Editors, Publishers and Agents - http://www.writers.net/
- Writers
Write - A "one-stop
resource for information about books, writing and publishing."
http://www.writerswrite.com/
- Writing.com - http://www.writing.com/
- Yearbook
of Experts - guide to experts and sources - http://www.expertclick.com/
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Some
Favorites -
Click here for other shareware/freeware download
sites
- As-U-Type
- If you are not a touch-typist
(or even if you are), this little utility program can correct
typos and spelling errors as you type. It even works alongside
WordPerfect's QuickCorrect, and can expand abbreviations like
QuickWords -- in any Windows program (such as your e-mail
program). Learns from your mistakes. Easy to toggle on and off
as needed (LShft+RShft keys), and very easy to use. Free 30-day
trial.
- FinePrint
- "...save money
by reducing ink and paper usage
- reduce file storage
space
- skip graphics
- convert colored text
to black
- print multiple pages
onto a sheet
- print booklets (easier than
with WordPerfect)
- electronic letterhead
- watermarks, headers,
footers
- save as JPEG, TIF,
BMP..."
- This is a similar product
to ClickBook (below), for $49.95. Fewer layoout options than
ClickBook, but slightly easier to use, and it can store pages
until you are ready to print, making it even easier to create
booklets from multiple sources.
- Download the trial
(demo) version, which is limited to 8 pages of output and
has a default text footer; both limitations are removed when
you register.
- ClickBook
- Similar to FinePrint
but with more layout options. According to their web site, ClickBook
is "...a powerful yet easy-to-use printing utility, lets
you print customized day planner pages, wallet booklets, brochures,
greeting cards, catalogs, microfiche, and more from Internet,
Windows, or CD-Rom files! ClickBook, helps you scale, rotate,
and duplex your digital photos, favorite on-line content, or
other critical information into 40+ mobile and convenient layouts.
You can even design your own custom layouts and save up to 70%
in paper costs!" Also, ClickBook makes it easier to adjust
binding margins than WP's booklet printing feature.
- ClickBook works in
any Windows program since it acts as a printer driver, which
is selectable with File>Print.
- A ClickBook demo is
available for download (about 3Mb). The registration cost is
$49.95.
- NoteTab
Lite
"The ultimate free (Windows) Notepad replacement
and a handy HTML editor...Search files, strip HTML tags and format
text quickly."
- Of special interest
is NoteTab's ability to automatically store any text copied to
the Windows clipboard in its own "Pasteboard". Open
NoteTab, press <Shift+Ctrl+P>, and everything you copy
(Ctrl+C) or cut (Ctrl+X) will also go to the Pasteboard file.
(You can even minimize NoteTab for the session.) You can then
copy from the Pasteboard back into another application such as
WordPerfect, your e-mail program, etc.
- Cleaning up "quoted"
e-mail material is easy, too. Copy it into NoteTab, select the
text, then click Modify, E-mail, Unquote to remove all leading
">" symbols. Then select the text again and click
Modify, Lines, Join Lines. (These steps can be made easier by
customizing NoteTab's toolbar and adding the appropriate buttons.)
- Automatic
backups.
- If you need real-time,
automatic, sequential backups of designated files (as
many backups as you want), you might consider Centered
Systems SecondCopy ($29.95).
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Other Download Sites -
- ClipArtConnection.com - Free Clip Art
Connection -
http://www.clipartconnection.com/
- Desktop98
Freeware and Shareware for Win98
- http://www.windowspc.com/
- Download.Net
- The Best Games, etc.
- http://www.download.net/
- Freeware
32 - http://www.freeware32.com/
- Freeware
Home - http://freewarehome.com/
- Funduc
Software - Search and Replace for Wind. - http://www.funduc.com/
- Moon
Software - Bookmark Wizard, etc
- http://www.moonsoftware.com/
- NONAGS
Freeware Shareware World Center
- http://nonags.com/
- PC Magazine Online Downloads - http://www.pcmag.com/download/
- SharePaper
- Shareware reviews
- http://www.sharepaper.com/
- Shareware.com - Search for shareware - http://www.shareware.com/?pt.msn..lp.sw
- SoftwareVault - http://www.softwarevault.com/
- TUCOWS - http://tucows.microagegb.com/
- WinFiles - http://search.windows95.com/
- ZDNet
Software Library
- http://www.zdnet.com/swlib/
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- ASCII
/ HTML codes chart
- A guide to résumé
writing from
the National Association of Colleges and Employers (includes
sample resumes and cover letters)
- Conversion factors (kilometers to miles, etc.)
- http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001729.html
- WhatTheFont? - "Ever wanted to find a font just
like the one used by certain publications, corporations, or ad
campaigns? Well now you can, using our WhatTheFont font recognition
system. Upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find
the closest matches in our database...." [See also the Find Fonts tab
on their site.]
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- "What
is 'Lorem Ipsum?'"
- Dummy text for printing, layouts, etc., and a free generator
of random 'Latin' paragraphs. [For a Mozilla FireFox browser
add-on that generates such text of various lengths, see the Dummy Lipsum add-on.]
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