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This is an indispensable tool for journalists and members of the media. A guide to grammar and style used by professional news writing professionals.

The Writer's Diet Is your writing flabby or fit? The Writer's Diet will help you energize your writing and strip unnecessary padding from your prose. First, diagnose your verbal fitness levels by taking the online WritersDiet Test. This is a great tool for writers! I am having fun with it and learning from it too. Try it out.

This is a great program for writers of every kind, including those of us who need to write essays for school. From the home page: "Scrivener is a powerful content-generation tool for writers that allows you to concentrate on composing and structuring long and difficult documents. While it gives you complete control of the formatting, its focus is on helping you get to the end of that awkward first draft."

A free on-line mind mapping tool, great for brainstorming and organizing ideas.