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Friday, August 7, 2015

Free Books by Well-Known Authors to Read (download pdf format)

Almost All Books By Chuck Palahniuk in full : Survivor, Choke, Fight Club, Haunted, Invisible Monsters, Lullaby, Diary, Fugitive and Refugees, Stranger Than Fiction, Snuff, Pygmy, Tell-All, Damned

Free e-books, videos, and audio stories 18 short stories by Alice Munro, 13 Great Sci Fi Fiction Stories by Philip K. Dick, 7 short stories by Neil Gaiman, The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains, The Graveyard Book also by Neil Gaiman, and the first 5 CHAPTERS OF American Gods by Neil Gaiman, stories and essays by David Foster Wallace, The Great Gatsby and other F. Scott Fitzgerald novels, Works by H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Hunter S. Thompson, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Stephen King; a book by Noam Chomsky, writing tips from Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, William Zinsser, Kurt Vonnegut, Toni Morrison, Edgar Allen Poe, Margaret Atwood, David Ogilvy, Steinbeck, and Billy Wilder; 700 free Classic eBooks, Free Philosophy eBooks, The Harvard Classics, videos of a multitude of books, much more...

Famous Short Stories Many famous short stories by authors such as Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, H.P. Lovecraft, Jack London, Herman Melville, George Orwell, Bram Stoker, H.G. Wells, And Virginia Woolf

Project Gutenberg offers 49,155 free eBooks to download many Classic novels such as A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Paradise Lost by John Milton, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, The Odyssey by Homer, The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, MacBeth by William Shakespeare, Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, Anthem by Ayn Rand, The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs, Eve's Diary by Mark Twain, The Apology by Plato, The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Sophocles(several of his plays), Plus many works by Philosophers, mathematicians, and politicians...

Fifty Shades of Grey #1, #2, #3 Read Fifty Shades of Gray, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed for free online

O. Henry's Works and Biography

2000 Classic Texts

Classics at the Online Library Aesop, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Honore de Balzac, Daniel Defoe, Rene Descartes, Alexander Dumas, Georg Eliot, Thomas Hobbes, D.H. Lawrence, Jack London, Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, Voltaire, plus many more...

Neil Gaiman's Comic Series The Sandman, Special #1 Free online comic the Special first book of the Sandman Series #1-75

to be continued... be back with more Bret Easton Ellis Books, 49 books by Stephen King plus a link to a book he wrote under his pen name Richard Bachman, the full copy of the book American Gods by Gaiman, 3 books by Michael Crichton, Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis, Books by Douglas Coupland, by Haruki Marukami, by Charles Bukowski, By Kazuo Ishiguro, by Poppy Z. Brite, by Umberto Eco, by David Mitchell, R.D. Donald, and Iaian Banks

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Writer's Top Useful Free Online Tools for Writers

Resources for Writers and Developers or Epistomophiles
  • Http://Sigil-ebooks.com Sigil : For novices and experts, with a WYSIWYG and code view to suit either experience level of development. Full of useful features such as table of contents generator, spell checker, and book browser. You can type from scratch, typing directly into the program or convert HTML files into books. It is complete with embedded audio and visual, if you like(for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android)



  • Http://www.evernote.com Evernote : Successful writing, whether screenplays,novels, essays, or papers, depends on research. If you are maintaining a lot of notes and ideas, you can store them on this. You can create an endless number of notebooks to store information about different projects you are working on. Keeps you very organized. You can grab text from the web and even collaborate with others by sharing your notes. It syncs to the cloud, so it can be accessed from any computer or device, either online or through the app for it.


  • Http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/main_page FreeMind : free mind mapping software...
Story boarding is a great way to try out ideas and see where a particular thread of a project is going. Mind mapping is sort of an extension of this. There's a window for each bubble on the screen and just shape it to branch of sub-ideas off of topic bubbles kind of in a brainstorming, more organized fashion. Mind map to track what happens to individual characters, or map main points in an essay format so you can brainstorm the sub content.



  • Http://www.libreoffice.org  Libre Office Writer: a word processor like Microsoft Office free of charge.




  • Scribus ---  find on Github.com if you are a software developer, etc. this tool is a web development compiled tooling set that you must program by hand and understand web development to use. It is an advanced tool with a learning curve so don't expect to pick up everything about it all at first. Create stunning newspaper or magazine layouts. Creates advanced documents suitable for professional printing or you can save projects as PDFs for electronic delivery.

Friday, June 12, 2015

Book Recommendations in subgenreTRANSGRESSIVE FICTION: YOU'LL THANK ME

Mostly Transgressive literature and some just really awesome works

"A Good MAN is Hard to FInd" by Flannery O'COnnnor

A Hunger Artist by franz Kafka

THe Myth of Sisyphus by ALbert Camus

The ALter of the dead by Henry James

the valley of decision by edith wharton

dora: a Headache by Lidia Vakanavitch

clown girl by Monica Drake

Exquisite corpse by poppy z. Brite

The wasp Factory: A novel by Iaian banks

generation x: A Tale for an accelerated culture by douglas coupland

torture the artist by joey goebel

shedding morals by j.c. wickhart

the pornographic imagination by susan sontag

tales of ordinary madness by charles bukowski

post office by charles bukowski

punchline by P.a. Fenton

fuckness by Andersen prunty

deadeye dick by kurt vonnnegut

cat's cradle by kurt vonnegut

microserfs: a novel by douglas coupland

j-pod by douglas coupland

catch-22 by joseph heller
closing time: the sequel by joseph heller

the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by douglas adams

schrodinger's caterpillar  zane stumpo

closer by dennis cooper

lost souls by poppy z. brite

mysterious skin by sean haim

less than zero by bret easton ellis

american psycho by bret easton ellis

lunar park by bret easton ellis

invisible monsters by chuck palahniuk

diary by chuck palahniuk

rant by chuck palahniuk

fight club by chuck palahniuk

the acid house by irvine welsh

the border trilogy by cormac mccarthy

the outsiders by s.e. hinton

god hates us all by hank moody

adderall diaries by stephen elliott

the stranger by albert camus

hell's half acre by will christopher baer

h by stefan bourque

the demon by hubert selby jr.

candy: a story of love and addiction by luke davies

filth by irvine welsh

high life by matthew stokoes

space games by dean lombardo
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