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100 Useful Web Tools for Writers
 
"Turn to this list for 100 useful Web tools that will help you with your career, your sanity and your creativity whenever your write." Includes collections of links to sites about getting organized, finding inspiration, finding writing jobs, communicating with vendors, networking and marketing, forums, productivity tools, and more. From a website promoting online colleges.
http://www.collegedegrees.com/blog/2008/06/11/100-useful-web-tools-for-writers/
Topics: Writing
Last updated Jun 24, 2008
Garbl's Writing Center: Long Words
A word substitution list. "Consider using these shorter, simpler alternatives to bureaucratic, overstated and pompous words. Note that several simple words may be clearer than a single long word." Also links to wordy phrases and redundancies, with more suggested substitutions. By a "writer, editor, media planner and communications specialist."
http://home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/words.htm
Topics: Communications, English Language, Language, Literature & Books, Writing
Last updated May 8, 2006
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
Written by an English professor with more than thirty years of teaching experience, this award-winning site is "an interactive, menu-driven, online writer's guide and handbook" designed "to be useful for all writers, from inexperienced to advanced." The site focuses on essay writing topics such as choosing a subject, organizing, revising, editing (including basic grammar and punctuation), and documenting sources. Includes a discussion forum, recommended books, and a section on writing poetry. Searchable.
http://www.powa.org/
Topics: Communications, English Language, Literature & Books, Writing
Last updated Apr 29, 2005
Why Write?
"These pages will allow you to explore how writing can incorporate sight, sound, touch and gesture. You will also see the ways in which cultural, social, historical and personal circumstances influence the way we write and the scripts we create." Features illustrated essays on why we write (including alternatives to writing), how writing works (creating scripts and tools and materials), and ways of writing; an alphabet gallery; and alphabet activities. From the British Library.
http://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/why/whywrite.html
Topics: Writing
Last updated Aug 18, 2008
Write Habit: Sit Down and Write
The mission of this site "is to provide writers of literary fiction, poetry and nonfiction with tips and tools to help them get ahead." Offers a column about writing, a list of graduate-level writing programs, links to literary journals that publish the work of emerging and new writers, a FAQ, and information about writing classes and other resources in the Seattle area. From a Washington state freelance writer and editor.
http://www.writehabit.org
Topics: Communications, English Language, Language, Literature & Books, Writing
Last updated Apr 29, 2005
Writer Beware
Includes "discussions of a variety of literary schemes and deceptions, information on how to recognize them, advice on how to avoid them, and links to useful online resources." It includes alerts, case studies, and legal recourse information on such topics as fee-charging agents, dishonest book doctors, publishing scams, fake contests, copyright violations, and more. A useful resource for all writers from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).
http://www.sfwa.org/for-authors/writer-beware/
Topics: Corruption & Fraud, Writing
Last updated Sep 15, 2009
Writers Write
An all-purpose writers' resource and searchable database. Includes information on different markets for various writing types and genres (medical writing, poetry, e-publishing, technical writing, songwriting, screenwriting, fiction, greeting cards, business writing, research, journalism), news, author interviews, message boards, job listings, bestseller lists, writers groups, organizations, contests, conferences, and more. Browsable and searchable.
http://www.writerswrite.com/
Topics: Communications, English Language, Film, Movies, & Video, Literature & Books, Writing
Last updated Apr 29, 2005
Writing-World.com: A World of Writing Tips for Writers Around the World
An excellent guide to useful writing-related resources on the net. Find information on book promotion, literary agents, copyright, writing synopses, getting published, freelancing, children's writing, greeting card writing, links to writing contests, electronic and self-publishing, scam alert, and a free bi-weekly newsletter.
http://writing-world.com/
Topics: Communications, English Language, Literature & Books, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts, Writing
Last updated Apr 29, 2005
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