Tuesday, 3 June 2014

15 Best Places To Find Free High Res Images

image courtesy of stuart miles FreeDigitalPhotos.net
If you've got a blog or a website, you'll know how important it can be to find a good image for your post.

But even though you want to find free images you still want them to be high resolution so that they look good.

Well I found website that lists 15 places where you can find free high res images for your blog or website.

You can find free images by doing a Google search but Google doesn't always provide you with the best sites because they prefer to send you to websites that contain premium stock photography, at a premium price, so many of the free image sites probably won't show up in a search.

But the following website has a list of 15 websites that offer free images.

http://www.labnol.org/internet/find-free-images/24990/

The list also includes a bit of information about each website telling you what you can and cannot do with the images.

My personal place to get my images for this blog is FreeDigitalPhotos.net and my favourite image person is Stuart Miles (also on that website). I once subscribed to his RSS feed and found that he publishes about 50 new images a day so I had to unsubscribe to stop them coming so often. But he sure is a hard worker.


10 Freelance Writing Markets

Today I have for you a list of 10 more freelance writing markets.

Each of these 10 places has an extensive list of links to writing markets.

The list includes different genres of fiction writing including horror, sci-fi, speculative fiction and romance plus children's writing markets and magazine markets.

Take a look through the list and start submitting today.

To earn a great income trough freelance writing, aim to make 30 submissions every month.

These 10 new writers' markets will also be added to the ever-growing list at my website for writers, http://writeaholics.net/writingmarkets.html.

Friday, 30 May 2014

Find Free Kindle Ebooks Every Day

image courtesy of stuart miles FreeDigitalPhotos.net
If you're looking for free ebooks to download to your Kindle then you won't find better than hundredzeros.com.

This is a free website that is updated every hour with every free ebook offered from Kindle.

You can search the books by genre or subject or by latest added.

These are books that are only offered free for a short time or are always free.

And it's not just the latest ebooks that they list.

They also have all the old classics that are now in the public domain and will remain free forever.

You can also subscribe by email for all the latest updates.

So if you haven't visited hundredzeros.com before you might find it useful to give them a visit.

Today I downloaded a free ebook about budgeting and another about book marketing.

Thursday, 29 May 2014

The Strange Writing Rituals of Maya Angelou

Dr. Maya Angelou died on Wednesday at the age of 86.
Well known writer, poet and activist, Maya Angelou, died last Wednesday aged 86.

As well as being known for her writing she was also well known for her rather bizarre writing rituals.

In an interview in 2013 she said:

"I have kept a hotel room in every town I’ve ever lived in. I rent a hotel room for a few months, leave my home at six, and try to be at work by six-thirty.

"To write, I lie across the bed, so that this elbow is absolutely encrusted at the end, just so rough with callouses. I never allow the hotel people to change the bed, because I never sleep there.

"I stay until twelve-thirty or one-thirty in the afternoon, and then I go home and try to breathe; I look at the work around five; I have an orderly dinner — proper, quiet, lovely dinner; and then I go back to work the next morning.

"Sometimes in hotels I’ll go into the room and there’ll be a note on the floor which says, Dear Miss Angelou, let us change the sheets. We think they are moldy. But I only allow them to come in and empty wastebaskets. I insist that all things are taken off the walls. I don’t want anything in there. I go into the room and I feel as if all my beliefs are suspended."

You can read more at:
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/maya-angelou-writing-process-2014-5