There’s a new website that’s making the rounds today: I Write Like.

Just paste a selection of your writing in the box, hit the button and the program does a statistical analysis on your writing.

Sure, it’s only as good as the algorithm. And sure, it’s probably on a par with palm reading or numerology. But Still, I don’t know what to make of the results on my first chapter:

Seriously? I Write like Dan Brown?

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Table of contents for Themes

1. 20 Free WordPress Themes for Writers
2. 16 More Free WordPress Themes for Writers

Isn’t it time you started a Blog?

Having a professional, well maintained blog is becoming essential to your writing career. Promote your writing, develop a community of fans, create a strong presence: all possible with a well designed, popular blog.

So here are 20 Free WordPress templates designed to help you project a professional, polished image. As always I have tried to link directly to the designer’s site, but have quite a few going to the WordPress Theme Viewer. I have tried to stay away from LinkWare: you’re trying to promote yourself, not someone else.

20. Typewriter-Let’s start with the obvious- Typewriter is a clean, well laid out design with an image of a classic, retro typewriter in the header. Basic Blog Theme without a lot of features.

19. Tropical Grunge-

Tropical Grunge WordPress theme

A Dark Green Background with a light text area, Tropical Grunge has a cool header image and would work well on Fantasy writers‘ blogs.

18. Abstractia- Another Dark Green Theme, with a little more professional look.

Abstractica WordPress Theme

17. Zeke 1.0- A popular Theme. Dark Red header and yellow text, with a woody background. Well laid out for monetization and sales.

Zeke WordPress Theme

16. RetroBook-An antique book. Small area for text, lots of wasted space. If you want to put up a bio and biblio, but don’t want to actually blog, this might be the way to go.

retrobook WordPress Theme

15. Nebula- A great Sci-Fi Theme. Dark Text on a static image of the Horsehead Nebula.

14. PDawn- dark theme, with a depressing/ Horror image. Very understated and elegant. Would Work for most horror, except Extreme.

PDawn Theme

13. Point Blank- Speaking of extreme Horror…Milo is a prolific designer of awesome looking themes. He’s all over the WordPress Theme Viewer. Unfortunately, a lot of his themes can be considered experimental- Cool looking and State-Of-The-Art, but hard to use and modify. Point Blank isn’t one of these. It works, and works well.

Point Blank Horror WordPress Theme

12.Nebula 1.8- Another Dark Sci-Fi Theme. More of a dark Tech / Cyber feel.

11.WP-Premium- A professional Theme with three different color schemes. What I’m using here (Red Theme). Not real personal, but easy to work with.

10. Options Theme- Unusual Theme with lots of “Options” Can be used for a blog or a Magazine Style Theme. Two Color Styles- “Light, which was this site’s previous theme and is more personal, and “Dark”, Which I use on Battlestar Grammactica. Theme options are controlled not by editing the files, but through a Dashboard Applet.

9- Visionary- Another Theme by the same designer as Options. This is a News style theme, but is not as cluttered and should work well for a personal writer’s site. No Picture since it’s a clean grid / Magazine style theme.

8,7,6,5,4. Notebook, Duffy, Blue Jeans, Aspire and Genesis- All these themes are pretty impressive, and pretty nice looking. Aspire was used on My daughter’s site, and was the inspiration for this list. When looking for the original designer, I came across InfoCreek’s website and all these Themes. They all seem based on the same structure.

Duffy Theme

Duffy and Aspire are Antique themes, Notebook has a Feminine touch, Blue Jeans is Rustic and Genesis is High Tech.

3. Halloween-Good Dark Template. Actually not so much Horror as Grungy Industrial. Extra Points Because the Designer uses it for his own Site.

Horror WordPress Theme

2.DFire-A dark Theme with Light Sidebars and an Unusual color scheme. Nice images throughout.

DFire Theme

1.Sandbox- C’mon, You’re Creative, right? Why Not Make your own theme to reflect your true personality? Sandbox is a theme designed to allow easy customization and configuration. A lot of the Free themes I’ve found use this as their starting point.

Want more? I’ve found 16 More Free Themes- More Modern, More Interactive, More Professional!

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The Folks at TuneCore have released a beta site for their new e-publishing site, Bibliocore, and it looks like a winner. Basically, pay a one time fee to post your book in ePub Format, and Bibliocore will forward it to iBookstore, where the 300,000 early adopters of Apple‘s iPad are dying to find content for their awesome new devices. You get to set your price and keep all the profit.

Sound too good to be true?

Well, TuneCore is the largest distributor and has one of the highest revenue-generating music catalogs in the world: In 2009 alone, more then one song per second sold by a TuneCore artist on iTunes. TuneCore is a low, flat fee service that distributes music to iTunes, eMusic, Rhapsody and many other major download and streaming sites while taking no rights and no revenue from the sale of the music. Artists are building careers, selling significant volumes of music and generating revenue through TuneCore. Since its launch in 2006, TuneCore has distributed tens of thousands of albums and millions of songs to iTunes and other digital stores by Grammy winners and unsigned artists alike. TuneCore artists include Drake, Beck, Jay-Z, Aretha Franklin, Keith Richards, Public Enemy, Nine Inch Nails, Ricky Skaggs, Paul Westerberg, MGM Studios, Warren G, Bjork, Moby, High School Musical cast members, Ali Lohan, Cirque Du Soleil, Starbucks and tens of thousands more.

Check out the Bibliocore Beta publishing platform here.

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Bizreef- A Freelance Auction Site. Charges a small fee to freelancers for the contact.

Constant Content- An Internet Syndicator. Post your toss-offs here and hope someone buys them. Free to sign up and post.

ELance-Like Ebay for creators-Get it? Post a profile and submit bids on jobs. Read ‘em carefully, cause if you underbid, you still have to perform.

FreelanceWritingJobs- Professional Blog with Daily Gigs.

The Golden Pencil- Scours Craigslist and feeds the results to you.

Guru- Billed as the world’s largest online Service marketplace

Helium- Choose a topic, post, and maybe get paid.

iFreelance- Good For You. Lots of little one-offs.

MediaBistro- Full Time Positions and Freelancing- One of the best. Complete their extensive, free registration to get the jobs to come to you.

Project4Hire- Not a lot for writers, but shows average bid on jobs

SunOasis- Barebones site with a good selection of jobs. Has a few networking sites on ning.

Get A Job You Worthless Lazy Bum! – Freelance Job Boards for Writers ©, .

And, after trying it for about three seconds, I can safely say that’s all it is:hype.

Cuil is a new search engine. Cuil is supposed to be some welsh/Gaelic word for “Cool”. Created by ex-Google employees, it’s trying hard to be an anti-Google. Logging on gets you a black screen with a small search window, and a blurb stating Cuil will not save your personal information. So far so good.

The problem is, once you type something into the search box. Cuil advertises that they’ve indexed three times the pages as Google. I believe it, since only about a third of any responses will be any good. Typing even the simplest search terms in the box will give you some hilariously inappropriate web pages, and lots and lots of spam.

For example, typing in “byzantine roads” gives me the entrecard entry for this page, but not this page. Typing in “Steel Valley Outdoors”, my other site gives similar results, including lots of unrelated sccapers. Also, Cuil seems to find weird, semi-related thumbnails for it’s pages, but doesn’t quite get them right. Some lizard keeps showing up for “Steel Valley Smash.” It’s very Hunter Thompson: It’s sorta close, but not quite and makes me angry.

Typing in Google gives you, um google. so you can actually get something done. Good Luck. Try Cuil at your own risk.

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