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Want to try it out first?<br>Take their free a writing class.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://WWW.WRITINGCLASSES.COM">GOTHAM UNIVERSITY</a></td> <td>A school in N.Y.C. with online courses. I didn't see any free classes and the cost<br>seems to be about $395 for tuition with a $25 registration fee.</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.writeyournovelnow.com">WRITE YOUR NOVEL NOW</a></td> <td>This year long course offers personal one on one coaching, with critiques, edits, and<br>comments from an established teacher/writer, her manual, tapes from her course<br>lectures and 6months of her newsletter.</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://WWW.VOYAGERFRANCE.COM">VOYAGER FRANCE</a></td> <td>A seven day course in France for less than $600 which includes room and meals<br>for the seven days. They have a 10 session course online for $250 and a free<br>sample course.</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://WWW.HOME-STUDY.COM">LONDON SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM</a></td> <td>This is a distance Journalism School in London with courses which run from 215<br>to 415 UK pounds depending on the course and the method of taking the course.</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.berkley-u.edu/online-college-degrees.html">UNIVERSITY OF BERKLEY</a></td> <td>The University of Berkley offers on-line degrees in variety of areas, including:<br> Creative Writing, Journalism, Literary Studies, and Fine Arts including Theater<br> and Cinamatography. Costs run from $2,065.00 or an Associate degree to<br>$4,195.00 for a Bachelor/Master/Doctorate degree.</td> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.universalclass.com/i/subjects/writinggenre.htm">UNIVERSAL CLASS</a></td> <td>This site has many classes from accounting to writing. There are several writing<br>courses at this time. The cost ranges from a donation to about $35. </table></td> </tr> <br><align="right"><caption><h2 align="center"> <font color="#660033"><a name="dictionariesthesauri">DICTIONARIES a name THESAURUSES</a></font></h2></caption></table> <br> <table border="2" align="center"><align="right"><caption><h2 align="center"><tr> <td><a href="http://www.m-w.com/home.htm">MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY</a></td> <td>This site has lots of nice features such as word games, a word of the day article and<br> a word for the wise quiz. Fun site for people who like words.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/">DICTIONARY.COM</a></td> <td>Another site with lots of information including but not limited to A dictionary, a<br> thesaurus, a foreign language dictionary, puzzles and a translator.</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.onelook.com">ONE LOOK DICTIONARY</a></td> <td>Contains a regular dictionary, a reverse look up dictionary (for crossword puzzle lovers)<br> and a wildcard dictionary.</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href"=http://www.rhymezone.com/">RHYME ZONE DICTIONARY</a></td> <td>You can look up definitions, find words that rhyme, related words, homophones, and more.</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr></tr> <td><a href="http://www.yourdictionary.com/">YOUR DICTIONARY.COM</a></td> <td>Another wealth of information and language boosts. A dictionary, translator, word of the<br> day, and much, much more.</td> <td></td> <tr></tr></table> <br><align="right"><caption><h2 align="center"> <font color="#660033"><a name="POETRYLINKS">POETRY LINKS</a></font></h2></caption> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <table border="2"><align="right"><caption><h2 align="center"><tr> <td> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.poetryexpress.org/">POETRY EXPRESS</a></td> <td>This site offers information, with ideas on writing, revising, publishing and technique.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.poetrymagic.co.uk">POETRY MAGIC</td> <td>Good information on this site; everything from how and why to write poetry to getting published. It includes<br> information on poetry magazines, e-zines, contests and more.</td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.poetry-portal.com">POETRY PORTAL</td> <td>I could use my whole website and not be able to tell you everything that is on this site. It has links to organization,<br>poetry from many countries and cultures, a huge list of contests a list of poetry<br>societies and much, much more.</td></table> <table border="2"><align="right"><caption><h2 align="center"> <font color="#660033">FANTASY &amp; SCI FI LINKS</font></h2></caption> <a name="fantasysciencefictionlinks"></a></tr> <br> <tr> <td><a href="http://sff.onlinewritingworkshop.com/">DEL REY WRITING WORKSHOP</a></td> <td>This workshop is from Del Rey Publishers. Cost is $40.00 per year. Writers post their work<br>online for other members to read and critique and make suggestions. They also have<br>resident editors who read the entries and pick a submission to print in their newsletter. </td> </tr> <td><a href="http://groups.msn.com/BlackHoleSurfers/gateway.msnw">BLACK HOLE</a></td> <td>This site has many helpful aspects. It has areas for research, market contacts, writing links<br>for help with your writing, and more. The research link is very helpful toward building your<br>world and peoples. It has links for geology, biology, religion and so much more.</td> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.sfwa.org/writing/worldbuilding1.htm">WORLD BUILDING</a></td> <td>Want to build a world? Patricia Wrede, a well known fantasy author gives you all the questions<br>you need to answer to your world building need. It covers everything about the world and your<br>characters that you could ever need.</td></tr> <tr> <td> <a href="http://hobgoblin.net/resources/createlink1.html#CHARACTER">HOBGOBLIN</td> <td>Hobgoblin.net has lots of resourses for all types of writing but this link takes you directly<br>to the page for Fantasy Writers. It includes links to various sites that can help you name your<br>character, define his/her personality, build a religion, design your own magic system and more.</td></tr></table> <td></td> <br> <table border="2"><align="right"><caption><h2 align="center"> <font color="#660033"><a name="ROMANCELINKS">ROMANCE LINKS</a></font></h2></caption></tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://eharlequin.com/harl/learntowrite/index.htm">HARLEQUIN PUBLISHERS</a></td> <td>Harlequin offers a critiqueing service, writing tips, grammatical tips, message boards,<br>newsletter, links to helpful sites, advice from authors and editors, and information on<br>writing for Harlequin, such, as submission guidlines for the different imprints published by them.</td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.geocities.com/charlottedillon2000/">CHARLOTTE DILLON RESOURCES</a></td> <td>Ms. Dillon has information on all aspects of writing the romance novel, from building a<br>character all the way through submiiting a manuscript to publishers and every thing in between</td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.writing-world.com/romance/index.shtml">WRITING WORLD</a></td> <td>This site contains many feature "how to" type articles on everything from love scenes to<br>conflict, links, interviews with authors, writing classes, and more.</td></tr></table> <br> <table border="2"><align="right"><caption><h2 align="center"> <font color="#660033"><a name="HORRORLINKS">HORROR LINKS </a> </font></h2></caption></caption> </tr> <tr><td><a href="http://www.horror.org/about.htm">HORROR WRITER'S ASSOCIATION</a></td> <td>This association may be joined by anyone who is writing in the horror genre. They have<br>writing tips and articles, links to other helpful sites for writing and publishing in this genre</td><tr> <tr><td><a href="http://www.critters.org">CRITTERS WORKSHOP</a></td> <td>This is an online workshop that appears to have no membership fees or costs. It is totally<br> peer review and is for SciFi/Fantasy/Horror</td></tr> <td><a href="http://www.darkecho.com/darkecho/workshop/index.html">DARKECHO WRITERS WORKSHOP</a></td> <td>This used to be a workshop but has closed down, however it does contain some useful<br>information about writing, wordcount, guidlines, and manuscripts.</td></tr></table> <br> <table border="2"><align="right"><caption><h2 align="center"> <font color="#660033"> <a name="MYSTERYLINKS">MYSTERY LINKS</a> </font></h2></caption> </tr> <td><a href="http://www.mysterywriters.org">MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA</a></td> <td>Any person who writes mystery can join this organization. The site contains a lot of<br>information regarding the writing and and publishing of mystery stories and novels.<br> It also has links to other sites of interest for mystery writers. </td></tr> <td><a href="http://www.zott.com/mysforum/links.htm">MYSTERY WRITERS FORUM/LINKS</a></td> <td>You have to be a member to read the forum entries but you can go to the links page.<br>It has information and links to sites containing information on laws, poisons, guns, police<br>and other interesting information for the mystery writer</td></tr> <td> <a href="http://resource.lawlinks.com/Content/Legal_Research/legal_research.htm"> LAW LINKS</a></td> <td>This site has lots of information on the law, rules of court, federal rules of evidence,<br> state and territory codes, U.S. codes, and much more.<br>other</table> <br> <table border="2"><align="right"><caption><h2 align="center"> <font color="#660033"><a name="COMEDYLINKS">COMEDY LINKS</a></font></h2></caption> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.comedyintensive.com/index.html">COMEDY INTENSIVE</a></td> <td>Comedy Intensive is a workshop for comedians, writers, and directors. It is a seven week<br>course and costs $325 for the seven weeks. They also offer private coaching.</td></tr> <td><a href="http://www.thestage.co.uk/connect/howto/funnyhaha01.shtml">THE STAGE</a></td> <td>Advice from John Byrne, a well known British writer and cartoonist on market, submissions<br>and connections.</td></tr> <td><a href="http://www.writersvillage.com">WRITER'S VILLAGE UNIVERSITY</a></td> <td>In addition to the courses in comedy they also have three comedy workshops along with more<br> than 250 others. </td></tr></table> <br> <tr> <table border="2"><align="right"><caption><h2 align="center"> <font color="#660033"><a name="GENERALWRITINGLINKS">GENERAL WRITING LINKS</a></font></h2></caption> <td><tr><td><tr> </td></tr> <br> <td><a href="http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/">GUIDE TO GRAMMER AND WRITING</a></td> <td>A complete guide to grammar and usage in the english language. It includes parts of speech,<br>sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and just about anything else you can think of<br>concerning grammar.</td></tr> <td><align="left"><a href="http://www.hugoroberts.info/StoryWritingLinks.html">MY FAVORITE<br>STORY WRITING LINKS </a> </td> <td>A list of my favotite places for information on story writing.</td> <tr><td><align="left"><a href="http://www.fictionfactor.com/">FICTION FACTOR</a> </td><td>Lots of info for writers. Articles on writing, writers, publishing, websites, etc.</td></tr> <td><a href="http://herbertholeman.com">HERB HOLEMAN</a></td> <td>This is an awesome website by Herbert Holeman, Ph.D. who is by profession a criminologist,<br> researcher, and by avocation a published mystery writer. It contains links to all types of<br>writing resources and information about mystery writers of the past and present.</td></tr> <td><a href="http://epress-online.com/">EPRESS ONLINE</a></td> <td>This is a new e-publishing site were they will consider most genres of fiction, non-fiction<br>writing about writers helping writers, work books for writers and other writing topics.<br>They have a good selection of writing links to articles and other writing related sites.</td></tr> </table> <br> <table border="2"><align="right"><caption><h2 align="center"> <font color="#660033"><a name="WRITERSASSOCIATIONSLINKS">WRITER'S ASSOCIATIONS LINKS</a></font></caption></h2> <td><tr> </td></tr><br> <br> <td><a href="http://www.horror.org//">HORROR WRITERS ASSOCIATION</a></td> <td> A worldwide organization of writers and publishing professionals dedicated to promoting<br>dark literature and the interests of those who write it.</td></tr> <td><align="left"><a href="http://www.sfwa.org/">SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY<br> WRITERS OF AMERICA</td> <td>An organization for professional writers, editors, agents, artist or publisher<br>of Science Fiction and Fantasy.</td> <tr><td><align="left"><a href="http://www.rwanational.org//">ROMANCE WRITERS OF AMERICA</font></a> </td><td>Romance Writers of America is the professional association for 8,600 published and aspiring<br>romance writers. </td></tr> <td><a href="http://www.mysterywriters.org/">MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA</a></td> <td>Mystery Writers of America, Inc., is the premier organization for mystery writers and other<br>professionals in the mystery field. </td></tr> </table> <br> <h3 align="center"> <br> <br><br> <h3 align="center"><img center src="guestbook.gif" alt="This is an image"></img><br> Please View and Sign Guestbook</center><br> <br> <!-- Begin Quick comment code --> <div style="border:solid 1px;border-color:black;width:280px; 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