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MadProofingSkillz

MadProofingSkillz.com is a new online proofreading service for students, academics, and up-and-coming writers.  We offer fast, affordable proofreading for manuscripts, essays, thesis projects, papers, and all kinds of academic writing. Our professional proofreaders are on-call 24/7 to be sure that your work is returned in as little as 24 hours.

Writer’s Residence

Writer’s Residence lets writers build a great online portfolio quickly and easily.  Simple tools allow writers to upload writing samples, create a resume, add their headshot and more.  The result is a professional website designed to help writers market themselves to editors and clients.

My Story Writer

Add the power of technology to your writing. With My Story Writer novel writing software, you have the tools you need to help you organize your ideas in a way that guides – but doesn’t restrict – your creativity so you can focus on writing your novel.

Writer’s Planner

A site for logging what you’ve written, where you’ve sent it, where you plan to send it, and what responses you’ve gotten. Can also set it to send you email reminders to follow up on pieces.

Autocrit

The AutoCrit Editing Wizard automatically analyzes your manuscript, checking it for a wide collection of writing errors and weaknesses. The Editing Wizard finds: Overused Words & Phrases Repeated Words & Phrases Slow Pacing Dull Sentence Structure Clichés & Redundancies Incorrect Homonyms Incorrect Readability Levels Overused Dialogue Tags

bubbl.us

Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online. You can: Create colorful mind maps online Share and work with friends Embed your mind map in your blog or website Email and print your mind map Save your mind map as an image

Urbis

Urbis is a community of creative people that offers sophisticated tools to help advance creativity and expose it to an audience.

Writer’s Cafe

Writer’s Café is a set of power tools for all fiction writers, whether experienced or just starting out. The heart of Writer’s Café is StoryLines, a powerful but simple to use story development tool that dramatically accelerates the creation and structuring of your novel or screenplay.

Read Write Tweet

Read Write Tweet is a Twitter directory of literary agents and all things Young Adult, including YA authors, characters, and reviewers. Agents and authors are tagged by genre, for easy searching.

Scribendi

Scribendi.com is a global leader in English-language editing and proofreading. Our fast, professional services are designed to help individuals and companies improve their writing and communicate effectively. Our world-class editors lend their expertise to aspiring novelists, screenwriters, PhD candidates, webmasters, and business leaders. We’re open 24/7, so don’t hesitate to send us a document anytime, [...]

Children’s Writers & Illustrators Message Board

This is a chat room full of information and great people who write for the children’s market.

OpenOffice.org

A free, open-source alternative to Microsoft Word: “OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files [...]

Storymill

Mac OS-based word processing tool for writers from Mariner Software: “StoryMill introduces aspiring authors to multi-level writing methods of tracking characters, scenes, and locations, while professional writers will appreciate StoryMill’s time-saving ability to oversee and manage the full creative process with Smart Views. “StoryMill enables you to manage the creative process like never before. You [...]

Screenplay.com

Sale site for Write Brothers’ Movie Magic Screenwriter as well as other writing programs.  Resources and events calendar for writers.

Final Draft

Final Draft is the number-one selling application specifically designed for writing movie scripts, television episodics, and stageplays. It combines powerful word processing with professional script formatting in one self-contained, easy-to-use package. There is no need to learn about script formatting rules – Final Draft automatically paginates and formats your script to industry standards as you [...]

Scrawlers

Scrawlers was founded in Minnesota in 2006 by Barry Hess and Nathan Melcher. Brought together by a mutual interest in creative arts and web development, Barry and Nathan built Scrawlers to marry those interests into a web-based creative outlet. Ultimately, they are driven by the desire to use Scrawlers themselves and a hope it will [...]

Writer’s Digest

WritersDigest.com is your one-stop shop for information, resources and writing community. Connect with other writers on our forum, visit our blogs and sign up for our free weekly e-newsletter. Here you’ll also find weekly writing prompts, contests and competitions, conference listings and online exclusive articles.

Publetariat

Publetariat is the premier online news hub and community for indie authors and small imprints, with an Alexa traffic rank in the top 1.25% and a Technorati blog rank in the top .3%.

Maternal Spark

Maternal Spark is a site for and about Creative Moms.  Posts are often about how to stay creative when balancing family life.  Maternal Spark accepts flash fiction submissions of 500 words or less and also features a forum.

Young Writer’s Society

It’s another site for young writer’s.  It’s gotten increasingly large and popular these past few years and young writers all over the world use this site.  Everyone is extremely friendly.  You can post your own work as well as review others.  You also have your own blog, profile, and there are also forums where you [...]