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Legal
Handouts from Anne Dalton presentation:
- Outline for Presentation
- How to Obtain Permission from copyright.gov
- Information on Fair Use from copyright.gov
Book recommended by Anne Dalton:
Reference and Research
- http://openlibrary.org/ If you love books, why not help build a library?
- http://compari.tech/academicresearch Acedemic research links.
- http://www.refdesk.com/ Great source for facts
- http://bartleby.com Great Books On Line
- http://www.all-about-forensic-science.com/crime-scene.html Crime Scene Investigation
- www.crime-scene-investigator.net Crime Scene Investigation
- www.howstuffworks.com How Stuff Works
- Biography.com – searchable database of 15,000 names.
- alibris-books from independent booksellers: readers search for books by specific elements: plot, setting, theme, and characters.
- Copyright Office
Resources for Creative Inspiration
- The Writer’s Online Toolkit from Maryville University
- Writer’s Digest 101 Best Creativity Websites 2021
- Writer’s Digest Best Writing Advice Websites 2021
- IngramSpark FREE book design course
- Guide to Finding/Reading Scripts Online
- Soul Food Cafe Creative!
- Creativity Porta Explore & express your creativity
- LET’S TALK STORY–Lisa Cron
A library of free resources on what a story really is, and how to write one, broken into nifty categories, to help you better zero the specific info you’re looking for. - Ginosko Literary Journal invites you to contribute to their literary ezine. Accepting short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, interviews, social justice concerns, spiritual insights.
Time Machine
- 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.
This and That
- Preventing Plagiarism: A Guide for Students and Educators
- Guide to Feminist Literary Theory
- Online Plagiarism Checker
- WordCounter.net — Tool for checking repeated words
- Best Video Conferencing for writers
- Tips on working from home
- Homophones, they are everywhere.
- Funds for Writers — contests, grants, freelance, information
- 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.
- NaNoWriMo: November is National Novel Writing Month. Try your hand at writing 50,000 words in 30 days.
- A daily program of poetry and history
- Conferences and workshops
- Web del Sol An e-zine dedicated to online publishing of literary journals.
- Writing Fix Ideas and inspiration for writing teachers
- BookBrowse.com Free book excerpts from the best current books. Plus book reviews, summaries, author biographies, interviews.
- 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 Blogs
- Bookwire
- Arts & Letters Daily The editors of this site daily post teasers and links to the Net’s best articles, opinions and book reviews. They also link to hundreds of magazines, newspapers, journals and online news sources.