WRITERS
GROUPS AND ORGANISATIONS
NSW
Writers Centre: http://www.nswwriterscentre.org.au/menu.html
Society
of Women Writers: http://www.womenwritersnsw.org/index.html
Australian
Society of Authors: http://www.asauthors.org/cgi-bin/asa/information.cgi
Fellowship of Australian Writers: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~faw/
Partners
in Crime (formerly Sisters in Crime Sydney): http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/7255/
CRIME
WRITERS
The
Mysterious Homepage/ClueLass:
http://www.cluelass.com/index2.lasso
Partners
in Crime (Sydney): www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/7255/
British
Crime, Mystery, Science Fiction etc.: http://www.twbooks.co.uk/
Crime
Writers Association: http://www.thecwaa.net/
POETRY
Haiku - The Heron's Nest:
http://www.theheronsnest.com/
Poetry Forum and Critique: Poetry Free For All
Craft of Poetry: http://www.uni.edu/~gotera/CraftOfPoetry/
CHILDREN
Libby Hathorn, author of interactive children's stories, Weirdstop and Coolstop: www.libbyhathorn.com/lh
Understanding Children’s Writing Genres
by Laura Backes www.fictionfactor.com/children/kidsgenres.html
HUMOUR
Dark
& Stormy: Every year since 1982 The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
urges writers to submit the opening sentence of the worst novel never
written. Results are here: http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
WORDS,
GRAMMAR, TERMINOLOGY ETC.
Rules
of grammar, examples and exercises: http://owl.english.purdue.edu
Glossary
of poetic terms:
http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.html
Macquarie
Dictionary, Book of Slang:
http://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/p/dictionary/slang.html
Rhyme
Zone, Rhyming Dictionary (also synonyms etc.):
http://www.rhymezone.com/