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 WRITING & LANGUAGE Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Home Page Annual contest for the worst novel opening; now includes nominations for real examples from published writers. Contests and Vanity Anthologies How to spot fake competitions and common poetry scams (SFWA guide, but advice applies to UK too). Dramatica Writers' software using Melanie Anne Phillips' and Chris Huntley's theory of story construction based around archetypal roles. See the on-line book. Kilgore Trout Page What do Samuel R Delany, Nicholson Baker and Anne Rice have in common? Omniglot, a guide to writing systems. Online Dictionaries and Translators Massive multi-language resource from Word2Word Language Resources. Plain English Campaign Homepage Organisation opposing officialese and other gobbledegook. Polari: How bona to vada your eek! UK gay/theatrical slang ultimately derived from the historical 'Lingua Franca'. The sci.lang FAQ Frequently Asked Questions about linguistics. Singular "their" in Jane Austen Anti-pedantry page citing acclaimed precedents for an allegedly incorrect usage. |
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writer? Gloria Brame debunks the fantasies of would-be writers. The Truth, The Horrible Truth, About The Lives of Writers Paul T Riddell tells hard facts about the prospects of writing for a living. Turkey City Funny but hard-hitting guide to common writing faults: SF-slanted, but applicable to any genre. Vanity Publishing - Advice and Warning from Johnathan Clifford, crusader against UK vanity publishing shapr practice VirtualSalt: Evaluating Internet Research Sources: checklist for separating information from misinformation during web research. WEB DESIGN Art and the Zen of Web Sites: creating aesthetically good and technically clever sites. The Bare Bones Guide to HTML Clear no-frills list of what the HTML tags do. Browser News: Statistics Useful stats for designers: how many users have particular plug-ins, modem speeds, browsers, etc. HTML Help Comprehensive FAQs for HTML programmmers, from the Web Design Group. PNG Home Site. Portable Network Graphics; loss-free format to replace GIF. Sucky to Savvy Jeffrey M Glover's guide to good and bad Web design. Swoosh! There It Is The ubiquitous boomerang logo. Top Ten Fallacies of Small Business Website Design: the salient forms of naffness afflicting small business web practice. Viewable With Any Browser Campaign Organisation promoting effective, universally viewable Web pages. VisiBone Webmaster's Color Lab: colour-matching resource from VisiBone, who make nice products such as Color Charts that group web colours by compatibility. Web Pages That Suck Vincent Flanders' site, based on his book, on learning good Web design from common design faults such as 'Mystery Meat Navigation'. |
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