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General Resources and Research

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Publications

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Guides to Better Writing

  • Strunk's famous The Elements of Style online by Bartleby.com.
  • One of the main styleguides used in academic writing, the Modern Language Association (MLA) has an excellent site with lots of resources about the Association and its work.
  • Garbl's Writing Center is a large, rambling assemblage of various writing and editing resources.
  • Yes, my friend, even as persnickety a subject as grammar can be entertaining and enlivened by the right master. Grammar Girl is truly such a master.
  • Quality writing often starts with knowing how to ask questions and listen to the answers. I have used this Step-by-Step Guide to Oral History for years as an invaluable guide for conducting interviews.

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Dictionaries and Thesaurii

  • Dictionary.com in addition to a first-rate dictionary and thesaurus, there are a crossword and crossword solver, translator, word games and tools.
  • The Free Dictionary is a comprehensive collection of English and foreign language dictionaries, thesaurus, specialized dictionaries, acronyms and abbreviations, idioms and literary reference.
  • Urban Dictionary is a great resource for current and past slang expressions.
  • For literally hundreds of special glossaries and dictionaries, check out the Glossarist.
  • Sometimes nothing beats a pithy quote from a luminary to make your point BrainyQuotes is a wonderful compilation of quotations in various categories.
  • The Quotations Page is a good source for famous quotes.

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Word Origins and Linquistics

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Copyright Law and Intellectual Property

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Business Info, Services and Products

  • Eco Green Office sells only environmentally friendly products at very reasonable prices. In addition, they have two eco-friendly presses in their print shop: the Xerox iGen digital press with 100% transfer efficiency and the Heidelberg DI waterless offset press which uses no chemicals. VOC output and paper waste are both dramatically reduced. Green business collateral made real.
  • TheGreenOffice.com offers over 34,000 dark green, green and conventional products in addition to sustainability webinars, certification, consulting and a comprehensive directory of green business listings that provide things beyond their core offering.
  • Susan Lee, EA, CFP®, has an excellent site on freelance tax and financial matters at Freelance Taxation filled with all kinds of useful information, advice and links. Susan also hosts a weekly financial talkshow on WBAI called You and Your Money.
  • BusinessSeek.biz Business Directory makes it easy to find business products and services for freelancers and businesses of all sizes.
  • The Bureau of Labor Statistics (US Department of Labor) is a good source for employment and other industry projections. The 2010-2011 occupational outlook for authors, writers and editors can be found here. Technical writers (technical communicators) occupational information for 2010-2011 is here.
  • The digital analog to the annual hardcopy publication of Writer's Market (various editions), WritersMarket.com is a subscription service with thousands of links to editors, agents and publishers along with marketing and other information helpful to writers.

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Rants, Raves and Randomness

  • Espresso Graphics has dozens of helpful and informative links to various resources for writers, editors, web designers and graphics persons. Download their Proofreader's Marks PDF here.
  • Verbivore is Richard Lederer's site for wordaholics, loglepts and verbivores. Lerderer is a prolific writer and expert on the history of linguistics and other language matters.
  • Illiterate Businesses—a rant blog about error-ridden signage.
  • If you ever need to rant to a live audience, this is the place for you. American Rhetoric lists several departments with lots of resources for speech writers.
  • Christina Laun has put together a list of the Top 100 Creative Writing Blogs.
  • A googlewhack is an unusual two-word phrase that, when entered in Google turns up one and only one page in the search result.
  • If limericks are your thing, you'll enjoy The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form (OEDILF) , whose goal is to write at least one limerick for each meaning of each and every word in the English language. Truly a noble endeavor! Long live the limerick.
  • A very high quality resource site that is nevertheless very difficult to categorize, The Burry Man Writers Center features an enormous amount of links to practical information and an option to connect to writers and content creatives from around the English-speaking world.
  • The Eclectic Writer—once you get past the atrociously inelegant web design and adjust to the garish colors and amateurish layout, you'll discover lots of interesting things relating to writing and the craft.
  • Random Word and Random Image Generator generates a random word, shows the definition and displays the first google image result for that word. In the words of the coder, "If you are experiencing writer's block this site can be extremely useful. Just look at the word/image that appears and write the first thing that comes to mind. Try not to think too much, it's a bad habit."

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Writing and Editing Online Content

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Books and Publishing

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The Film Industry

  • Good Wikipedia article on the film industry with a global overview.
  • For the latest scoop on Hollywood deals and developments, Done Deal Professional has got it covered if you are a screenwriter or other film professional (requires paid subscription).
  • Film Industry Bloggers—an excellent blog site oriented around Hollywood's Number 1 industry.
  • The Hollywood Reporter is online for all the latest Hollywood info.
  • Variety is right up there as one of the best for the scoop on everything Hollywood.
  • Working on the dialogue in your blockbuster? Check out a few of the great Movie Speeches for those classic, resounding deliveries by your favorite characters.

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Writing Workshops, Schools and Events

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Organizations for Writers, Editors and Poets

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Fine Writing Instruments

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