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A random plot generator - how to torture your character, or at least be mean to them

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32 misused words

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ThinkExist.com is one of the better known quotation sites. Look up famous quotes.

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Pages and pages of Writer's Digest prompts

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The style guide for reporters at The Economist - includes lots of good information on vocabulary, grammar, often mispelt words, and abbreviations.

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A large list of descriptive words listed by category.

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GenoPro is a genealogy program for drawing family trees. It's commercial, but a good one. Includes functions for mapping, linking relationships, social or organisational groupings and emotional relationships too.

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Free Family Tree program, allowing for any birthdates and partnerships. Good for creating fictional family trees for your writing work.

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Freeware writing project organiser. Includes elements (characters, settings, events) with annotations, structure maps and timelines.

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Writer Crash Test.com features video critiques of writing work. It is a small website off the How to Think Sideways e-course of Holly Lisles.

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WriteChain is an iPhone writer's app created by the author of the blog, How Not to Write. It features a wordcount function which adds up your wordcount on writing projects day by day, notifying you when you forget to write (or break the chain). Available through the ITunes application store, with instructions on this blog.

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Collobarate with one other writer. You write 40 words, then they do, then another part each. The twist is that you only see the last few words of what each of you wrote. After two parts each (a total of 160 words) you can read the result.

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Large list of general resources.

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Calibre is free software (cross platform) which works as a one stop solution to your e-book needs. It provides library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversions, and e-book reader sync features. It can compile a library of your e-books held in many formats.

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A blog featuring writing tips, exercises and ideas.

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A group of writing links put together by Tim Beyers on Google Notebook, and shared with you.

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Post excerpts of both fiction and non-fiction books. Readers can comment.

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A podcast about wine, writing and song. Hosted by Samantha Graves and Lani Diane Rich.

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Tiffany Colter's Writing Career Coach blog. Features lots of information for writers.

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Cathy Bryant's writing blog

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