Here is a growing directory of writer's tools and resources available on the Internet.

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Kickstart Your Article Writing by Jill Brennan This ebook by Jill Brennan provides 9 Ways to break out of an article writing Stalemate. It is perfect for anyone who produces articles for their websites, ezines or to promote a website or product. PDF file 422 KB Right Click Here to Download Kickstart Your Article Writing

Writer’s Dreamtools   Larry Belling’s collection of tools to enhance writers’ and students’ creativity, spark ideas and fight writer’s block. They include Historical Events by Day and Decade, Collection of Lists, Clichés and Catch Phrases, Slang Thesaurus, Humorous Quotations, and classic Internet humor.

Writers.com Writing classes are offered in many areas such as creative writing, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screen writing, playwrighting, journaling, autobiography, memoir, travel writing, writing for children, genres like mystery, science fiction, fantasy and more.

Writing.com Writing.Com is the online community for writers and readers of all interests and skill levels.

Inspired2Write Where writers come to learn. This site is filled with inspiring articles and information for writers or anyone who wants to be inspired to write.

Write101.com  Over 600 pages of articles on all aspects of writing are waiting for you.

Copyright  Learn about copyright, law and policy, how to register a work and record a document, and search copyright records.

Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources   Are you wandering how to properly cite Internet sources in your articles or research papers? Here you'll find the information you need for citing online sources. Click on "citation styles" for all four citation style chapters from the book's text: MLA, APA, Chicago Style, and CBE with detailed instructions and examples.

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant   An award-winning interactive site for both beginners and experienced writers. The site provides detailed instruction on the entire process of writing. Great for professional writers as well as high school and college students. Thanks to Bonnie Jo Davis for sending this along in her very informative Articles That Sell Update.

Profitable Pen   Profitable-Pen is a site designed to help you make more money by getting ideas and turning them into well-focused, salable articles, books, stories. Whether you are new to writing professionally or not, you will find ideas, sources, strategies, and answers to questions.

Creativity Portal   The art of writing takes on many forms. Here you can explore a variety of writing topics including calligraphy, poetry, journaling and blogging, creative writing, copywriting, fiction writing, and collaborative writing.

Guide to Literary Agents   This site is designed to give writers accurate information on literary agents with news about agents and book sales and addresses for top agents.

Market Information for Writers   Find out what type of articles publishers are seeking, how much they pay for them, the format they prefer for submissions, and other helpful information such as an editorial calendar or the names of specific editors. The site includes a listing of ezines and other publications.

Writer's Digest   A popular writing magazine with information on writing books, competitions, workshops, and other resources for writers.

American Writer   C-SPAN's companion website to the popular series American Writers: Journey through history' and 'American Writers II, The Twentieth Century. This site profiles and examines the lives of 45 authors, twentieth century American writers who have influenced the nation's history.

Writers and Writing   From WorldAndI.com, Writers and Writing presents profiles of novelists, poets, and playwrights from any culture and any age.

AskOxford.com offers many helpful resources for writers and students along with searchable access to the Compact Oxford English Dictionary.

Dr. Goodword's Alpha Dictionary   Search 967 online English dictionaries at once. In addition to the daily 'Goodwords' and many language resources, there are fun quizzes that will be of interest to both adults and children.

Dictionary.com   One of the handiest and most all-inclusive dictionary tools online. Choose either dictionary or thesaurus at the top of the page, and enter your search term.

The Free Online Dictionary   English, Medical, Legal, Financial, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Acronyms, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine all in one.

Dictionaries and Glossaries   Judy Vorfeld's writing center provides dictionaries, glossaries, and online references. Resources are available for grammar basics, grammar Tips, common mistakes, and other helpful items.

Medical Dictionary Online   Online medical dictionary containing medical terminology and general glossary of medical related terms.

Wikipedia   A collaborative worldwide collection of articles, an open-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

Companion sites include: Wikibooks, a collection of over 7,000 open-content textbook modules, in many subject areas, all free. License guarantees that any works that are derived from these materials will be similarly free to modify and distribute, Wikinews, a news source, Wikisource, a repository of source texts in any language, and Wikiquote, a collection of quotes in many languages. For more information and resources, visit Wikimedia.

Citation Machine   Create citations and bibliographies effortlessly. Simply supply your information, and create a citation in correct format that you can paste into your research paper or article.

Infomine Multiple Database Search   A comprehensive academic search engine focusing on scholarly resource collections, electronic journals and books, online library card catalogs, and directories of researchers.

CompletePlanet   Automated identification of deep Web sites and retrieval for simultaneous searches. A direct-access query engine is translatable to about 20,000 sites, already collected, eventually growing to 100,000 sites. A listing of these sites can be found in a comprehensive search engine and searchable database portal.

Librarians' Index to the Internet   A searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 14,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. LII is used by both librarians and the general public as a reliable and efficient guide to Internet resources.

Deep Web CE Specialized Web Search Tools   Web' search capabilities and categorized results including specialized search tools and directories.

Yummy! Personal PDF Library   Thousands of free research tools for journalists. Select from various categories or search for the tools or information you need.

Assorted Encyclopedias on the Web   General knowledge as well as specialized encyclopedias.

Power Reporting   Thousands of free research tools for journalists. Select from various categories or search for the tools or information you need.

Trend Watching   You'll like this site if you are researching business trends or information. More than 4,000 trendspotters scan the US, Canada, European Union, Japan, South Korea, India, South Africa, Australia, Brazil and 50 other nations and regions for hot, emerging consumer trends and related new business ideas.

Bible Gateway   A free service for reading and researching Scripture online in the language or translation of your choice. Advanced tools allow you to search the Bible by keywords or verse.

Science Daily   Source of latest scientific research news. Information on Preventative, Health Treatment, Laws, Pediatrics, Technology, Health Organizations, Virus Diseases, and more.

OpenOffice - Free Office Suite   OpenOffice Suite, similar to Microsoft Office, contains a a word processor you can use for anything from writing a quick letter to producing an entire book, database program, a powerful spreadsheet, presentation program, and drawing software. It does a brilliant job with PDFs and handles MS Office file formats.

Copyscape   You've worked hard to create original and useful site content. Protect your site with Copyscape. This free service allows you to search for plagiarism and identify instances where someone has used your content without permission. Type in the URL where your original content is located, and Copyscape will find instances of plagiarism. See also, Copyscape's Guide to Responding To Plagiarism.

EzineCheck   This tool provides a reliable way to check your ezine or newsletter for spam rule compliancy. You can test both text or HTML before mailing to make sure your mailings reach your subscribers successfully.

Email Formatting Utility   This free tool will format your emails to the right character count and line length. Simply enter your desired column width, and paste in your text. It can also be used to strip unnecessary tags such as >> used with many forwarded emails.

Article Formatter   A free writing service provided by the Freelance Writing Organization - Int'l. Copy your text into the space provided, and then use the command buttons to format your content.

Text-to-Hyperlink Conversion Tool   If your articles contain hyperlinks, which your resource box certainly will, here is a tool that will add hyperlinks to the web addresses in your text documents without you having to manually add the code to the text. This is a great time saver!

Hand Written Signature Generator   This simple tool lets you create a handwritten signature for use on a website.

Doc to PDF Converter   Neevia Pdf Converter eXpress lets you convert files (up to 1 MB) to PDF or Image without installing special software.

NoteTab   NoteTab is a leading-edge text and HTML editor. Winner of software industry awards since 1998, this application does it all: it easily handles a stack of huge files; lets you format text to your heart's content; does system-wide searches, and multi-line global replacements. It even corrects your spelling mistakes.

TextPad^®   TextPad^® is a powerful, general purpose editor for plain text files. Easy to use, with all the features a power user requires. This application contains many formatting options the professional writer or editor will find attractive.

UltraEdit   UltraEdit is a powerful, value priced text editor - described as the ideal text, HEX, HTML, and programmer's editor. This is a very popular program, with a shareware version available at the site.

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