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Congratulations!! so you are considering doing some writing! This writing guide was written for individuals and volunteers in the New Horizons Un-Limited community who may be interested in writing and submitting a Personal Experience, Share Your Knowledge, Resource Review for our NHU website or Posting a Message on our NHU Community Forum, however, anyone can access these good writing tips and resources.
For a quick link to the section of your choice on Writing, click on the item below.
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.
Daily Grammar offers a tutorial on grammar tips. Look up a grammar tip, one a day, and improve your writing.
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.
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.
Poetry Writing and Analysis Guide is a helpful poetry-related resource by SuperSummary, this guide provides information and resources to help you learn about poetry
and how to read and analyze it. Keep reading to learn all about the history, forms and movements of poetry,
as well as tips on how to write poetry. There are kid friendly tips too and a list of famous poets.
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.
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.
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