This is my weekly writing prompt challenge. It fell short of my 2000 word minimum but I felt that it would get muddled if i added to it. The prompt was the first line:A powerful man has to have powerful enemies, baby girl… “A powerful man has to have powerful enemies, baby girl.” “If you ever call me that again, you won’t have to be worried about looking for powerful enemies, you’ll have one…
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I believe in free education, one that’s available to everyone; no matter their race, gender, age, wealth, etc… This masterpost was created for every knowledge hungry individual out there. I hope it will serve you well. Enjoy!
FREE ONLINE COURSES (here are listed websites that provide huge variety of courses)
Alison
Coursera
FutureLearn
open2study
Khan Academy
edX
P2P U
Academic Earth
iversity
Stanford Online
MIT Open Courseware
Open Yale Courses
BBC Learning
OpenLearn
Carnegie Mellon University OLI
University of Reddit
Saylor
IDEAS, INSPIRATION & NEWS (websites which deliver educational content meant to entertain you and stimulate your brain)
TED
FORA
Big Think
99u
BBC Future
Seriously Amazing
How Stuff Works
Discovery News
National Geographic
Science News
Popular Science
IFLScience
YouTube Edu
NewScientist
DIY & HOW-TO’S (Don’t know how to do that? Want to learn how to do it yourself? Here are some great websites.)
wikiHow
Wonder How To
instructables
eHow
Howcast
MAKE
Do it yourself
FREE TEXTBOOKS & E-BOOKS
OpenStax CNX
Open Textbooks
Bookboon
Textbook Revolution
E-books Directory
FullBooks
Books Should Be Free
Classic Reader
Read Print
Project Gutenberg
AudioBooks For Free
LibriVox
Poem Hunter
Bartleby
MIT Classics
Many Books
Open Textbooks BCcampus
Open Textbook Library
WikiBooks
SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES & JOURNALS
Directory of Open Access Journals
Scitable
PLOS
Wiley Open Access
Springer Open
Oxford Open
Elsevier Open Access
ArXiv
Open Access Library
LEARN:
1. LANGUAGES
Duolingo
BBC Languages
Learn A Language
101languages
Memrise
Livemocha
Foreign Services Institute
My Languages
Surface Languages
Lingualia
OmniGlot
OpenCulture’s Language links
2. COMPUTER SCIENCE & PROGRAMMING
Codecademy
Programmr
GA Dash
CodeHS
w3schools
Code Avengers
Codelearn
The Code Player
Code School
Code.org
Programming Motherf*?$%#
Bento
Bucky’s room
WiBit
Learn Code the Hard Way
Mozilla Developer Network
Microsoft Virtual Academy
3. YOGA & MEDITATION
Learning Yoga
Learn Meditation
Yome
Free Meditation
Online Meditation
Do Yoga With Me
Yoga Learning Center
4. PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMMAKING
Exposure Guide
The Bastards Book of Photography
Cambridge in Color
Best Photo Lessons
Photography Course
Production Now
nyvs
Learn About Film
Film School Online
5. DRAWING & PAINTING
Enliighten
Ctrl+Paint
ArtGraphica
Google Cultural Institute
Drawspace
DragoArt
WetCanvas
6. INSTRUMENTS & MUSIC THEORY
Music Theory
Teoria
Music Theory Videos
Furmanczyk Academy of Music
Dave Conservatoire
Petrucci Music Library
Justin Guitar
Guitar Lessons
Piano Lessons
Zebra Keys
Play Bass Now
7. OTHER UNCATEGORIZED SKILLS
Investopedia
The Chess Website
Chesscademy
Chess.com
Spreeder
ReadSpeeder
First Aid for Free
First Aid Web
NHS Choices
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Please feel free to add more learning focused websites.
*There are a lot more learning websites out there, but I picked the ones that are, as far as I’m aware, completely free and in my opinion the best/ most useful.
Hey, what's up, writeblr? Piggying back off this thread is a more formal attempt at getting an idea of who browses Tumblr's writing community and how.
All questions except the ones regarding the time are optional. The time questions are required because those are the three that kicked this whole shebang off, and it's probably the three people are most interested in. The rest are just to get an idea of what folks should best focus on and what's less important.
And yes, you read that correctly: answers are entirely anonymous (to the general public—there's a voluntary question at the end that will tell me who you are so I can tag you when the results come out), but answers will eventually be compiled into one public post that will hopefully give writers an idea of when writeblr's actual peak hours are and who their audiences might be. This will hopefully help authors connect with readers—or at least reassure them that they do have readers.
This survey will be open until August 6, exactly one month from now.
Furthermore, this survey is open to all members of the writeblr community, whether you're into original fic, fanfiction, poetry, graphic novels—pretty much anything. Folks who are more into reading than writing are also welcome. In other words, if there are words involved, your opinion is welcome!
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. My askbox is anon-friendly, and my DMs are open to mutuals, if you don't wish to ask publicly via comments/reblogs.
Thanks so much for your responses!
(Also, yes, please feel free to boost this post to increase sample size.)
I’ve been lurking long enough, it’s time…
Cat-51yrs old (she/her)
I’m a fledgling writer who is still trying to leave my safe nest. I write across many genres, but all of my stories have a touch of romance (WLW)
My aim with this blog is to connect with the writing community; maybe find a couple of mutuals to help with accountability.
So my mom has been in the hospital in unbelievable pain all week and I'm like. What if I got people to read her smutty books. And she gets out of the hospital to hit like thousands of reads on Kindle
I wandered through the goblin market for a wish, and we heard the sound of a golden horn
I must admit this weeks prompt was difficult. I had some personal stuff to take care of and couldn’t write every day like I wanted. I also started with Autumn as a prompt but couldn’t quite get the feel of the season. I’m going to do a Halloween story at some point. Meanwhile, the prompt for this one is the title. I’m pretty proud of it and may go back to continue it… Strong wind rattled the…
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Neil Gaiman, Coraline (via books-n-quotes)
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
Hey. You there. Aspiring author. Keep writing. The world needs your words. Every single author - big and small, indie and trad, young and old - once stood where you stand, wondering if they were kidding themselves. Keep going. You got this.
Green Bay Press-Gazette, Wisconsin, December 19, 1946
a breeze that blows up on a summer afternoon walk, when just wished for one so you don’t pass out.
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