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Writing Guide

• Writing Tips
• Copyright
• How to Write
• Writing Courses
• Writing Resources
• Professional Writers: Careers and Publishing

1. Have fun!
2. Be willing to share.
3. Think about the things you take for granted now, but took a lot to get here.
4. Think about the things that have meant the most to you.
5. Include details.
6. Your opinion is also worth something.
7. Be truthful.
8. Choose one topic and keep it short.
9. Recommend 250-500 words.
10. Abide by the Rules of Conduct and Terms of Agreement.

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Guides

• Guide to Grammar and Writing is sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation, a non-profit 501c-3 organization and available for the general on-line public.

• Fifty Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark is on Poynter On-line, a website for journalists. This guide offers 50 very specific ideas to improve your writing.

• Daily Grammar offers a tutorial on grammar tips. Look up a grammar tip, one a day, and improve your writing.

References

• Encyclopedia Britannica.com allows you to look up terms of biography, science, history, geography and more through its on-line search.

• Library Spot has a complete reference desk from almanacs to dictionaries, encyclopedias and zip codes. Look up any term, idea, or anything!

• NetLingo is an award-winning dictionary of Internet terms. It contains thousands of words and definitions that describe the online world of business, technology, and communication. Their purpose is to educate and entertain you about the lingo used in the online world. In addition to an on-line jargon dictionary, learn about messaging, smileys, emoticons, and e-mail lingo.

• Reference offers an easy search for any term through a dictionary, a thesaurus or on the web.

• The trAce Online Writing School offers numerous ways to develop your own creative writing voice through working online with an international team of tutors and students. All courses take place exclusively online, where you interact with your tutor and other students via the discussion boards, e-mail, and occasionally by live chat. You will also receive more traditional learning materials via their easy-to-use learning environment. Students new to online learning will find a wealth of help and support available to guide them through. This course has a fee!

• Writing/Art for Disabled offers several getting started articles on various writing subjects.

• Internet-Resources.com's, Writing Links & Links for Writers: Writers' Resources on The Web and More provides a comprehensive list of links to resources from writing tools, writing types, the business of writing and writing tips.

• Poets & Writers Online includes a searchable database of over 4,800 listings from A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers; advice on topics such as copyright, publishing, and finding a writers conference; along with links to over 1,000 Web sites of interest to writers. Poets & Writers also publishes a free newsletter with writing tips.

• Artist Help Network offers this page of resources for Artists with Disabilities.

• Careers in the Arts offers information on a career in the literary arts and resources.

• Career opportunities in the Literary Arts by VSA Arts of Florida. Offers information on skills and salaries for many writer occupations.

• Loft Literacy Center offers this page of resources for Writers that includes contracts, copyrights, agents, publishers. This site is based in Minnesota.

• On Writing: Self-Publication without Pretense is an essay by Teresa Nielsen Hayden. This article is on the SFF.net website and is about just printing on your own, without a publisher.

• Problems that Writers with Disabilities Face: by the National Writers Union, National Diversity Committee which commits itself to representing the interests of the full range of writing communities in the US. These include writers of diverse cultural, ethnic, racial and religious heritage; writers of all sexual/gender orientations; and writers with disabilities.

• Science Humanities Press This link is to the publishers' website and they give some very good reality checks on the business and economics of self-publishing and publishing.

• Science Humanities Press - Author's Guide

• Science Humanities Press - Economics of publishing, pros and cons of publishing and self-publishing etc.

• 2002 - Statewide Forums on Careers in the Arts Report and Recommendations offers the artist writer a look at options and what can be expected for a career in writing.

• Writer's Digest offers information for the professional writer on publishing.

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