Resources

When you’re looking to gently tune out

The Guardian’s list of 100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying, with suggestions like carrying a book in your bag (#96) and reminders to eat dessert (#59).
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jan/01/marginal-gains-100-ways-to-improve-your-life-without-really-trying

Poetry Unbound. Does anyone else have a “mixed” relationship with poetry? Like. . . maybe you read some that you couldn’t connect with in any way, or it seemed somehow impenetrable, or far too personal to the author? This isn’t that. Or if it is, maybe listening to Pádraig Ó Tuama read the poem to you makes it calm and enjoyable. Poetry Unbound itself calls the experience “unhurried, contemplative and energizing.”
https://onbeing.org/series/poetry-unbound/

Websites that Inspire

It’s a public gratitude journal. In my workshops, there’s usually a component where I talk about my fraught relationship with gratitude lists (I try to do them with regularity, I fail, I wonder if the positive benefits occurred, I feel bad about not committing) and my fandom of the thank you note (it’s personal! It feels good to write and to receive! You can play with beautiful paper and pick out a stamp!). This, though, this is something a little different and feels very good.
https://www.thnx4.org/public

Always, the Marginalian, formerly Brain Pickings. Maria Popova has been sharing her love of reading—and, truly, all things edifying and well-written on the internet and beyond—since 2006. In her words, it’s her “one-woman labor of love. It is an inquiry into what it means to live a decent, substantive, rewarding life, and a record of my own becoming as a person — intellectually, creatively, spiritually — drawn from my extended marginalia on the search for meaning across literature, science, art, philosophy, and the various other tentacles of human thought and feeling.” Amen.
https://www.brainpickings.org

Shawna Lemay declares that you are required to make something beautiful, and expands on that idea over at her website titled Transactions with Beauty. When I feel like I just can't, I remind myself to go and take a look. Shawna also sells her photographs to Getty.
http://transactionswithbeauty.com

On writing and editing

Five good reasons to hire an editor.
http://www.editors.ca/hire/five_reasons.html

What's the difference between a proofread, copy edit, and a substantive edit? Start with the Editors Canada definitions of editorial skill. http://www.editors.ca/node/11715

Restless Writers has some fantastic resources, including agent searches and query help.
https://restlesswriters.ca/resources/

Katharine O'Moore-Klopf at KOK Edit has the best list of editing resources (Canadian and American) online, from a style guide of American bishops to referencing and line-counting software to a collection of tea vendors.
http://www.kokedit.com/ckb_4.php

Louise Harnby has the best list of editing resources (UK-specific) online, including proofreading cheklists, accounts templates and all kinds of knowledge about fiction editing and proofreading.
https://www.louiseharnbyproofreader.com/editor-resources.html

Words and word origins

Oxford English dictionary
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com

Word origins: I check this site more than I'd like to admit. It's just like it sounds.
http://www.wordorigins.org

Style guides

APA Style: even after many years of using it, I check back on my Kindle APA manual throughout the editing of an academic paper that uses it. The APA Style Blog helps with out-of-the-norm situations like what to do with a first name change for a transgender author. Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL) is still the best place to double check APA 6 style.
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

Chicago Manual of Style has a quick citation guide available online, and Purdue's OWL is also helpful; but for the whole story, you'll need a copy.
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html

The First Nations House of Learning at Universiy of British Columbia (UBC) has created a style guide for communicating respectfully with and about Indigenous Peoples, helping writers to use terminology and meanings appropriately.
http://assets.brand.ubc.ca/downloads/ubc_indigenous_peoples_language_guide.pdf