Writers' Tools

I'm not a big advertiser of things, generally. I don't think. Maybe.
Anyway, so I get this e-newletter Write for Kids, and they occasionally have these fun links to other things. Today one of their links was this cool baby name thing--a graph that allows you to see the trends of names over the past hundred and twenty or so years. Pretty interesting.
http://www.babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/

They also had a nice article about being humble in your writing, which was pretty good. It was speaking mostly to people who say "this kind of book was published, why can't I do that?" when the people who type x type of out of the ordinary book generally have acquired a name for themselves. But until then, just sit tight and follow the rules.