BSFA - British Science Fiction Association

The University of Utah offers an Introduction to Creative Writing and Introduction to Shakespeare free and online. Download the courseware for the Creative Writing course from this page

The Open University in the UK offers free courses via its OpenLearn and LearnSpace online offerings. This is the Start Writing Fiction free online course. Check for others via OpenLearn also.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) holds many of its courses as free online and open to anyone. Look for writing coursework on here, under the humanistic and writing category, or literature.

XMind is opensource mindmapping software, with a Pro version also. There are drilldown, workgroup and multiple sheet functions and the audio notes make this appealing for collobarative mindmaps.

Authors and readers get together at this social networking site which gives authors the chance to create webpages. Blogs, video-casts, podcasts etc created by authors here.

Delivered in electronic e-book form, The Freelance Writers Business Kit contains templates and examples for the freelance writer. Now out as the 4th edition, this kit costs $11.95 currently.

Find freelance writing jobs within the U.K. market. Membership is £8 for 3 months or £24 for 12 months.

StickySorter is a program created in the Microsoft Labs, concentrating on allowing the user to create and sort multiple simple sticky notes, and share these as sorted. The process in gathering multiple sticky notes and organising them is based on the affinity diagramming process used by project teams all over the world for brainstorming and organising ideas.

The Mind Map Watch blog mines the internet - blogs and twitter reports - for articles released on mindmapping. The site has a regular Twitter update of these articles, plus a good list of MindMapping applications and software for creating mindmaps.

Originally for educational and classroom use, the Inspiration diagramming software is available for parents and private use also. Mindmap and turn into outlines etc. Commercial, now with a web side also.

MindMapper Pro is commercial mindmapping software, in various versions and prices, integration into MS Office for some pro versions, and a free trial.

iMindMap by Tony Buzan - three versions of mindmapping commercial software. Excellent features.

Mindjet MindManager Pro - commercial software for mindmapping, with online collobaration, integration with MS Office, PDF outputs, Gantt Chart integration, a web side, and copious features, templates etc.

With Write or Die! (from Dr Wicked's Writing Labs), you get tangible consequences with procrastination. Insert a wordcount, and time period, and start to write - in the online java applet. If you pause, within 20 seconds you will find your surrounding screen turning red, then the noises start.

Article Helper Pro - available as a licensed product, allowing the creation of unique content from PLR articles.

Article Helper is a lovely little database / text editor program which runs without installing. Your articles created withint Article Helper are saved as text files, stored in the same directory as the exe. The front page shows a list of these articles, with wordcount statistics. These can be edited inside the article helper application, with a panel on each article for status, niche, keyword phrases, an author resource box, and the body of the article. The application also has a scheduler, which pops up a reminder at certain periods during your writing work; and a summary report for your full list of articles.

Wordflood is an article writing application, allowing you to customise PLR or prepared text with similes and keywords liked by search engines. Helps in providing forceful words in creative writing and rewriting.

Instant Article Wizard, for article writers. Goes through stages of article writing, plus supplies many keyword rich sentences.

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