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This blog includes a lot of great tips and advice for creative writers.

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A great list of less-frequently used words and their definitions for use in your writing.

A very cool and unique site (gallery?) of pictures that were never taken; all described through a paragraph of text. Interesting idea.

An interactive blog all about creative writing, some fun stories and exercises

This website lists many ameteur writing competitions from all over the world. They also try to eliminate ones that might be scams or ask for money.

True stories told in one sentence. Like the twitter of the writing world.

Jodi Picoult is my favorite author. This site offers a lot of cool links to her interviews videos, news, etc. It also offers discussion questions for each of her 15 novels.

An archive of short poetry aided by graphics. Like magnetic poetry with pictures.

This is a forum in which one member asked for some good creative writing exercises. Other users responded with some great exercises, ways to generate ideas, and ways to kick writer's block.

I've had this one for a while. Some good tips from horror writers FOR horror writers.

A website for teenagers to submit any type of writing or artwork. Pretty cool to look at even if you're not a teen anymore. Could be useful for future teachers

Simple enough.