Miscellaneous
FILM, STAGE OR NOVEL? Choosing the Right Vehicle to Convey Your Story
Film Genres from IMDb
Genres
How To Search Copyright Holdings Online
How the Right Title Sold 300,000 Books When the Wrong Title for the Same Book Sold Only 1500 Copies
Film Genres from IMDb
Genres
How To Search Copyright Holdings Online
How the Right Title Sold 300,000 Books When the Wrong Title for the Same Book Sold Only 1500 Copies
The Publishing Law Center has 19 articles on legal issues of concern to publishers, editors and authors. These articles cover contracts, copyright, fair use, public domain, subsidiary rights, electronic rights and more.
Theater Mirror offers a collection of web links for theater
World Wide Words - The English language is forever changing. New words appear; old ones fall out of use or change their meanings. World Wide Words tries to record at least some part of this shifting wordscape by featuring new words, word histories, the background to words in the news, and the curiosities of native English speech.
CRAYON - create your own newspaper
Scribd is a Silicon Valley startup creating technology that makes it easy to share documents online. You can think of Scribd as a big online library where everyone can publish original content, including you! Part of the idea behind Scribd is that everyone has a lot of documents sitting around on their computers that only they can read. With Scribd we hope to unlock this information by putting it on the web. For more information about scribd.com and how to use it, check out our FAQ
Accepts all major formats, unlimited storage, wide audience, get feedback from community, browse extensive library...
Accepts all major formats, unlimited storage, wide audience, get feedback from community, browse extensive library...
Adventure Maker (freeware) is a revolutionary, easy-to-use, powerful, and inexpensive toolkit to create point-and-click games and multimedia software in minutes, without any scripting or programming.
LibriVox is site designed to facilitate the sharing of audio books.
JustFreeBooks searches the content of more than 700 web sites, including gutenberg.org, wikibooks.org and archive.org. With JustFreeBooks you can find all sorts of free books: public domain texts, open books, free audio books, ad-supported books and more. Just type in the search box the book title, author or theme you want to find.
Google Books Search - Find full text and/or bibliographic information using the world's best known search engine to search through one of the largest collaborative digitization projects ever. To find "Full Text Books" (which are likely to be older), select that option before doing a search.
Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.
nicestories.com - this site contains (short and novel length) stories. We have created a number of categories in this site, and are now looking for story writers who are willing to share their stories (either fiction or non-fiction genre) with the visitors of this site. Authors, if you have written a story or poem, by all means use our site to publish your writing (short or novel length). Please add to our collection of stories and poems.
PublicLiterature.Org - Check out free full text and audio classic works from Public Literature.org. News and information is posted for readers and aspiring writers. The site features works by Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Leonardo da Vinci and many more.
The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
Turning the Pages on the web - The British Library has digitized important historical works, such as Lindisfarne Gospels, Da Vinci's notebook, Sherborne Missal among others. User can "turn the pages of rare books or manuscripts in a highly realistic way. They can zoom in on the high-quality digitized images and read or listen to notes explaining the significance of each page."
Other Women's Voices: Translations of women's writing before 1700 - This website compliles translations of over 125 women writers, "women who produced a substantial amount of work before 1700." Each entry contains background on the author and that particular work, useful secondary sources and Internet sites. The site also offers information on how to obtain translations of these writings.
Kwani: Kenyan Literature Online - Kwani is a free online literary journal founded by Kenyan writers and supported by subscribers to the print edition of the magazine. Kwani's goal is to reinvest in the creativity of the people of Kenya and to encourage new writing by modern voices.
The Cranky Librarian - Search for public domain books and art works online here, as well as searching by author and artist.
The Free Library - Compiles an enormous amount of published material - journals, magazines, blog postings, and classic literary texts. Organized by subject, author, or title.
Allreaders.com - How to find the book you are looking for
Theatre and Drama resources, WWW Virtual Library (Barry Russell) - Very extensive meta-site on world theatre. An excellent starting point.
The Booklist Center - Hundreds of reading lists in dozens of categories.
LitQuotes - Several thousand quotations, organized by topic and author.
Literary Locales - Over 1,350 picture links to places that figure in the lives and writings of famous authors
Children's Books On Line Facsimiles of 19th- and 20th-c. children's books.
Executive Pen Direct - all kinds of pens
Pulp fiction magazines were the main source of everyday entertainment for the masses during the first half of the 20th Century.
U.S. Code Search - online United States criminal code.
Adventure Maker is a revolutionary, easy-to-use, powerful, and inexpensive toolkit to create point-and-click games and multimedia software in minutes, without any scripting or programming. It is particularly suitable for the creation of first-person and third-person adventure games, Myst-like games, educational software, presentations, and interactive tours. It can generate single stand-alone files, for Internet or CD distribution. The main features include Load and Save functions, conversations (dialogue wizard), looping videos, animations, full-screen transitions, real-time water/smoke effects, inventory items, multiple-CD support, Flash movies support (SWF), support for over 30 file types (OGG, XviD, DivX...), multi-channel sound system, versatile Plugins System, and MUCH more.
The Writer's Block - Inside there is information about what writer's block is and isn't, why writers get blocked, and some things that might help you get into, around, thru, or over your own block.
Better World Books uses the power of business to change the world. We collect and sell books online to donate books and fund literacy initiatives worldwide. We believe that education and access to books are basic human rights. That's why books sold on BetterWorldBooks.com help fund high-impact literacy projects in the United States and around the world. That's why we commit to matching every purchase on our website with a book donation to someone in need - Book for Book™
Cliche Finder ..... Type in a word and find every cliche with that word in it
Table Tote - Your portable workstation, laptop & projector stand
XpanDesk - Running many applications simultaneously can result in a cluttered screen that's difficult to navigate, much less organize. XpanDesk lets you create up to nine virtual desktops, so you can have a separate, uncluttered desktop for each set of applications that you use together.
The Magic of Creative Writing - Downloadable multimedia course
Notebook Stories - A blog about notebooks, journals, moleskines, blank books, sketchbooks, office supplies, art supplies, pens, pencils, paper.
[Bracket] shorthand helps you draft with lightning speed - Imagine a shorthand that works for complex storytelling as well as true shorthand works for speeding up general writing. A writer’s shorthand does exist, with the use of placeholding “things-yet-to-be-written” in brackets.