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Free Websites for Writers

The Author's Workshop is a free online workshop from Peterson Publishing Group

WritingRaw.com is a FREE literary ezine dedicated to new and emerging writers.

The Book Zoo is a free community site where readers, literary agents, publishers, and the general public, can preview the best unpublished and self-published books.

MyFreeRead.com is a FREE Marketing Tool for you. They post all material absolutely free for their visitors to read. In return, you may be eligible for profit-sharing from their advertising revenue. Don't want to give it all away for free? No problem - post a quality excerpt and include a link for them to buy the full version.

Resources for Creative Inspiration

A Chocolate Box Take one!

Soul Food Cafe Creative!

Creativity Porta Explore & express your creativity

StickYourNeckOut Provides novice and younger authors and artists, as well as old hand, a home for new works on the Web.

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Time Machine

WhoWhatWhen is a database of people and events from 1000 A.D. to the present. Create graphic timelines of periods in history and of the lives of individuals. Examples:

Who was alive and what was happening in 1776?
Who was born/died on December 25th?
Which scientists were contemporaries of Pascal?
Which wars were being fought during Mozartâs lifetime?

Internet Archive - "Universal access to all knowledge"

Wayback Machine allows you to look at Website archives from other times.
Text Archive Download free books and texts. The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books.
Audio Archive This library contains over two hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users.

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This and That

An article on writing with Style

Why Indie Authors? from a blog that reviews independent authors.

Idioms and Phrases from The Free Dictionary

RhymeZone.com - Type a word and find rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more.

MyFreeRead.com is now open and accepting e-books and articles! [more]

blogtalkradio: Information in a Nutshell: Writing and Publishing

NaNoWriMo: November is National Novel Writing Month. Try your hand at writing 50,000 words in 30 days.

Writing Prompts for Every Day

A daily program of poetry and history

Conferences and workshops

NewPages.com Lists links and writeups of online literary magazines.

Web del Sol An e-zine dedicated to online publishing of literary journals.

Writing Fix Ideas and inspiration for writers

BookBrowse.com  Free book excerpts from the best current books. Plus book reviews, summaries, author biographies, interviews

"The Writer at Work" is a free comic, by Richard Krzemien, that mixes the working world of Dilbert with the absurdity of The Far Side. The comics highlight the joys and challenges faced by creative people everywhere through the eyes of The Writer.

Forensic Science Technician Comprehensive list of U.S. schools that offer Forensic Science Degrees. Also has interesting links for other Forensic sites. Good for research.

Writers Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers

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Reference

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Fiction Markets

Romance

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Non Fiction Markets

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Free Newsletters

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Research Sites