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General Reference resources for a Writer
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Inkspot
www.inkspot.com
A site that has been in the business of providing writing resources for about as long as we have been providing quality writing
instruction. We highly recommend that you check out their many articles and links for information you may be seeking about almost
any aspect of writing. Inkspot can also help you sift through the many rich resources the Web has for grammar and style, research,
reference, and information about the craft of writing itself.
Inkspot's newsletter, INKLINGS (http://www.inkspot.com/inklings),
is also full of classifieds, markets, resources and more.
Writers Beware
(http://www.sfwa.org/beware/)
An excellent source from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. This section deals with book doctors, case studies on
various scams, contests and vanity anthologies, copyright, electronic publication and rights, literary agents, and subsidy and vanity
publishers. The SFWA site overall (http://www.sfwa.org/)
is also a good source not only for sf/f writers, but writers in general.
Garbl's Writing Resources Online
http://members.home.net/garbl/writing/
I have quite a few bookmarks concerning English grammar, style and usage, words, etc., but Garbl seems to have them ALL in his annotated
directory of online writing sites.
Locus
http://www.locusmag.com/
Locus is the long-standing print source about sf/f publishing and the
Web site is a great extension of it!
DarkEcho Horror
http://www.darkecho.com
Useful site for anyone interested in horror and horror writing. Info on free weekly email
newsletter and dark fiction/ horror writing workshop.
Mary Soon Lee's Speculative Fiction Page
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mslee/wr.html
Nothing fancy, but good basics about how to submit, sf/fantasy
markets, etc. from a writer who has been there.
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JOURNALISM |
Internet Journalism Resources:
http://www.moorhead.msus.edu/~gunarat/ijr/
Huge listing of Web search tools, journalism resources,
international communication, writing and editing help, listservs,
usenet groups, Net help, etc.
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MYSTERY |
A Tangled Web
http://www.twbooks.co.uk/
Wide range of links to crime/mystery fiction related sites, "tools of the crime fiction trade," etc.
Cluelass
http://www.cluelass.com/
Many resources for both mystery fans and writers. Includes the
"Deadly Directory."
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ROMANCE |
Romancing The Web
http://www.romanceweb.com/index5.cfm
Information and resources for romance writers and readers.
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SCREENWRITING |
pro.screenwriter
http://members.aol.com/linkwrite/profwrt.html
The overly-animated lay-out defeats the informative purpose here, but
it does offer a lot of links.
Screenwriters and Playwrights Page
http://www.teleport.com/~cdeemer/scrwriter.html
Maintained by our own Charles Deemer, this is one of the oldest and
best resources about screenwriting and playwriting on the Web
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POETRY |
Poetry Super Highway
http://poetrysuperhighway.com/PoetLinks.html
Access resources, read poetry, find online publications, submit,
find other poets, add your own link and individual poet pages...a
real find for poets.
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ONLINE DICTIONARIES |
A Web of On-line Dictionaries
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
Indexes online dictionaries, thesauri, and such with preference given
to free sources, but with "exceptionally rare and/or unusually
well-executed" downloadable and subscription sources as well.
One Look Dictionaries
http://www.onelook.com/
Look up 2910725 words in 583 indexed dictionaries!
Travlang's Translating Dictionaries
http://dictionaries.travlang.com/
Free online translating dictionaries in a number of combinations:
German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Danish, Swedish,
Finnish, Norwegian, Frisian, Afrikaans, Hungarian, Czech, Esperanto
and Latin.
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