Stuff for writers

I recently discovered a new toy online: Wordle, which generates nifty "word clouds" from text that you provide on its web site. Input your text or a URL, and you'll see where your passions lie: The largest words in your cloud are the ones that appear more frequently in your source text. Here's the word cloud created from my blog:

And speaking of discovering your passions, Poets & Writers has listed its Top Ten Topics for Writers, a compilation of the most important issues for writers today...