The following writing-related resource links are an accumulated collection of resource links that have been featured at some point in my Writing Help Central Update Newsletter and/or The Write Place Blog.

From time-to-time, I mention specific writing-related resource sites in my newsletter and/or Blog. Periodically those new links are added to this collection. They are organized alphabetically, by category heading.

Article Writing

"Articles by Autoresponder" is a FREE e-book that contains links to over 900 articles covering 44 different categories covering such subjects as: weight loss, fitness, cooking, spirituality, writing, sales, child care, marketing, etc. The book is really easy to download and use. Articles are organized by category and a summary of each article is provided. If you are interested in a particular article, you simply click on the link provided, send a blank e-mail, and the entire article will be sent to your e-mail inbox by autoresponder. You can download this eBook for FREE at the following link:
http://www.writinghelp-central.com/articlesbyauto.html

Aspiring Authors

"AspiringAuthors.net" is a one-stop resource site for anyone who ever dreamed of writing their own book. Webmaster Yvonne Richards has assembled a comprehensive set of information resources supplememnted by a team of expert advisors and professionals that can hold your hand every step of the way through the someVerdana daunting publishing process. If you've ever thought of writing your own book, no matter how modest, Yvonne's site has the information you need to help make it a reality.
http://www.aspiringauthors.net

"AwakenTheAuthorWithin" is the brainchild of veteran teacher Glenn Dietzel. On that Web site Glenn claims that he can tell you, and I quote, "How To Start, Finish and Publish an eBook in 29 Days or Less". Even better, over the years he has developed a proprietary formula that he says will allow you to draft a 90 page eBook in just 12 hours of actual writing! Just to get you started, Glenn is offering a free eBook entitled "7 Secrets of eBook Authoring". So, if you've ever wondered about whether you might have an eBook inside you, Glenn's site is a must.
http://www.awakentheauthorwithin.com

Book Writing and Authoring

"Instant Book Writing Kit" shows you how to write, publish and market your own book/ebook using previously unknown online distribution channels rather than via the old money-losing book publishing model. The kit's unique 17 Action Steps For Online Publishing Success provide a step-by-step walkthrough explaining exactly how any aspiring author/publisher can implement this breakthrough model and make significantly more money than with the traditional book publishing method. Anyone wanting to make some decent money from their book/ebook will definitely want access to this information.
http://www.instantbookwritingkit.com

Business Letters

"Business Letter Writing Basics" is a site maintained by Kenneth Beare of About.com. There he explains basic business letter formats and offers a number of sample business letters for different situations. Here's the link:
http://esl.about.com

"Instant Business Letter Kit" is a comprehensive business writing toolkit that combines "how-to" tips, tricks, advice, and information with over 100 real-life templates for writing any type of business letter that you can download into your word processor and use as you choose. The Kit also includes a special bonus book containing business form templates ranging from, invoices and purchase orders, to minutes of meetings, and trip reports. Whether you're involved in small business, home-based business, or large business, if you need help writing business letters, you could make this Kit your business writing style guide.
http://www.instantbusinessletterkit.com

Business Writing

"Business Writing Center" is maintained by The University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA. It is a well-designed and businesslike writing resource center with lots of links to business and general writing resources. Most of their links are to writing centers and resources at other academic institutions. The site covers everything from letter and resume writing, to grammar and style, as well as citation formats (i.e. APA, MLA). Definitely worth checking out.
http://depts.washington.edu/bwrite/

College and Grad Schools

"Instant College Admission Essay Kit" is a low-cost solution to the high cost of developing application essays and personal statements for admission to college and university programs: undergraduate, graduate, MBA, law, and medicine. This unique essay writing toolkit is packed full of advice, tips, pointers, and "hands-on" tools designed to fast-track the essay development and writing process. It also contains many real-life essay templates that can be downloaded into your word processing program. If you're looking for a cost-effective alternative or supplement to the expensive essay preparation services, this Kit is definitely worth checking out.
http://www.instantcollegeadmissionessay.com

"Accepted.com" is rich in resources for college and graduate school applicants struggling with the writing necessary to present a successful application. If you need to submit a personal statement, application essay, or resume as part of your all-important application, don't put finger to keyboard without visiting Accepted.com. In addition to a plethora of advice on writing these critical documents, Accepted.com provides sample essays, admissions links, an MBA Interview Feedback Database, online admissions chats and expert editing services. Where is this treasure trove?
http://www.accepted.com

Copy Writing

"Make Your Words Sell!" is recognized as the master manual on persuasive copywriting. Co-written by Internet marketing guru Ken Evoy and pro writer Joe Robson, it transforms traditional copywriting techniques into "the art of e-persuasion". Concepts are applicable both online and offline. An extensive value-added "how to" and reference guide. A "must have" in my book.
http://myws.sitesell.com

Courses and Classes

"Tips and Tricks For Writing Success" is a FREE e-mail writing course designed to help people with everday writing tasks including: personal letters, business letters, resumes, cvs, term and research papers, essays, reports and more. Thousands of people from all over the world have taken this course and the rave reviews keep coming in every day.
http://www.instanthomewritingkit.com/free-course.html

"WritingClasses.com" claims to offer the most comprehensive creative writing classes "online or in New York City." They give 10-week classes in 19 different types of creative writing, from fiction and screenwriting, to mystery, romance, and songwriting. They also deliver customized and/or private workshops on specialized subjects, as well as a series of custom classes for aspiring teen writers.
http://www.writingclasses.com

Dialect Interpreter

"The Dialectizer" will take any English text you provide, and then translate it into any one of a number of well-known comic dialects. I ran the home page of my Writing Help Central Web site through it, and the results were actually quite hilarious. I especially liked Elmer Fudd! For a good laugh, give it a try:
http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/

Editing and Proofreading

"Fast-English-Help" is Dean Cracknell's new site that offers one-stop English language help. Designed primarily for non-native speakers of English, particularly those from Asia, fast-english-help.com offers proofreading and editing of written English documents, as well as help with English grammar and conversation practice. In addition, this excellent site also offers a variety of other resources to help you learn, write or speak English. A great site for anyone needing basic English language assistance.
http://fast-english-help.com

E-Mails - Doing It Right

"E-mail For Newbies" is the brainchild of co-authors Joe Robson and Tom Glander of the Newbie Club. ("Newbie" is the term widely used for an Internet-beginner). Most of us learned how to send basic e-mails using "hunt and peck" experimentation but we were never shown the ins-and-outs of our e-mail programs or the proper e-mail protocols. It's a shame really, because there is so much more that can be done with e-mail programs and e-mail communication in general that most people just don't know about. Joe and Tom wrote "E-mail for Newbies" to tell you what e-mail is really all about!
http://newbieclub.com

English Grammar

"WritingEnglish.com" is an extensive English Grammar help and resource site created by George Robinson of Montreal. The site contains the rules of English grammar, a glossary of grammatical terms, online tests and vocabulary exercises, tips for writing business letters, cover letters, resumes, and other writing, and more, in addition to a description of its English proofreading and editing service. This site's mission is to "Ensure that your writing will make a good impression."
http://WritingEnglish.com

English (and French) Language Courses

Discovery Language Centre has been providing language training for both corporations and individuals since 1992. It focuses on the language skill needs of businesses and professionals. Based in Montreal, the Centre offers quality language training in English, French, Spanish and other languages to an international clientele. Its unique interactive teaching methodology is ideal for small to medium national and multi-national companies which need a fast-track language training solution for their people. Training can be delivered in most countries. If you or your people need quality language training in a hurry, DLC is definitely worth checking into:
http://DiscoveryLanguage.com

Essay Writing Help and Guidance

"Write-An-Essay.com" was created after retired study skills advisor Ted Neilson received so many requests to publish his essay-writing advice, that he finally wrote it all down at his Web site. His site contains step-by-step help on researching and writing essays, from understanding the topic and essay question, to editing the final draft. If your looking for essay writing help and guidance, Ted's site is well worth checking out.
http://www.write-an-essay.com

Brock University's Essay Writing Help Center is an excellent compilation of high quality essay-writing resource links. The links cover such subjects as: 1. The Five Paragraph Essay, 2. How To Write An Essay, 3. How To Write An Essay In Bioethics, 4. Nuts and Bolts of College Writing, 5. Writer's Handbook, 6. How To Write A Thesis Statement, 7. Writing Scientific Lab Reports. Each of these links goes to another excellent essay writing resource at places like: University of Birmingham, University of Toronto, University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as Brock University itself, located in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.
http://www.brocku.ca/library/reference/essay.htm

Grammar and Spelling Help

"Grammar Slammer" is a shareware program, available for a Free 21-day trial:
http://englishplus.com/gramslam.htm

Professor Charles Darling of Capital Community College in Hartford CT, USA, maintains a really neat Web site called "Guide to Grammar & Writing". He uses a series of dropdown menus to help users find the type of writing help they're looking for. Whether you need help with basic sentence or paragraph structure, or with an essay or research paper, this is a content rich resource site.
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/

Hand Writing to Font Conversion

This amazing service will actually turn your own personal handwriting into a True Type Font! Just imagine watching your own handwriting appear on the screen as you type! This is a perfect way to personalize letters and other typewritten documents with your own handwriting! This Handwriting to Font conversion service will transform any handwriting into an actual font for use on any Windows or Mac PC.
http://www.quantumenterprises.co.uk/handwriting/

Home-Based Business

The ability to write reasonably well is probably the single most important skill needed to build and run a successful home-based business on the Internet. So it's not surprising that Ken Evoy, the co-author of "Make Your Words Sell" (see Copy Writing, above) is now recognized as a major Internet Marketing guru. Recently, Ken converted his immensely popular e-mail course "Affiliate Master's Course" into an eBook that you can download for FREE. If you ever wondered how it's done, take a look at this:
http://www.writinghelp-central.com/afmdownload.html

Letter Writing - General

Here's a great little site that is dedicated to the "art" of letter-writing. It's named "Letters, Letter-writing and Other Intimate Discourse", by Wendy Russ.
http://www.wendy.com/letterwriting/

"LetterRep.com" is a relatively new site that focuses almost entirely on letter writing related topics. Webmaster Rob Noyes is trying to make LetterRep.com the most comprehensive site for sample letters on the entire Net. Definitely worth checking out.
http://www.letterrep.com

"Instant Home Writing Kit" is a one-stop writing toolkit that contains "how-to" information for writing the most sought after personal and business letters including: recommendation letter, resignation letter, business letter, thank you letter, complaint letter, cover letter, and sales letter. The Kit contains over 60 fully-formatted sample templates that users can downloaded into their word processors and work with. A powerful letter writing tool.
http://www.instanthomewritingkit.com

"Instant Letter Writing Kit" is considered the ultimate general letter writing resource. It combines a letter writing style guide WITH more than 100 fully-formatted real-life templates that can be downloaded straight into your word processor. The templates in the Kit are for the top letters that people are most often searching for online, and are said to represent over 99% of ALL letters ever written or requested. This Kit covers every kind of letter you'll ever need to write.
http://www.instantletterwritingkit.com

Online Style Guide

Style guides are the reference books that tell you what is right and wrong when writing in English.

KCI's Reader-Based Writing Style Guide can be found at:
http://www.kanten.com/styleguide/

The classic, "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk, Jr.
http://www.bartleby.com/141/

Proposal Writing

"ProposalKit.com" offers a comprehensive assortment of business "Proposal Packs" to assist with the writing of just about any kind of proposal. These are stand-alone sets of fully-formatted downloadable templates that allow the creation of just about any kind of business proposal, from a small 3-pagers to 100-page large project proposals. If you're looking for proposal writing help, ProposalKit.com is your one-stop resource.
http://www.proposalkit.com

Recommendation Letter Resources

"Instant Recommendation Letter Kit" is a toolkit for the writing all types of letters of recommendation and letters of reference for both employment and college admission purposes. The Kit contains 67 real-life sample letter templates that users can download straight into their word processor and work with. It also contains a bonus chapter on how to write college admission essays, including a number of essay templates.
http://www.instantrecommendationletterkit.com

"Recommendation-Reference-Central.com" is a comprehensive one-stop information and resource center for the writing of all types of letters of recommendation and letters of reference. These types of letters are are often difficult to write and are frequently confused. If you need help writing any kind of letter of recommendation or letter of reference; for business, work, college admission, or home, this site is your one-stop information source.
http://www.recommendation-reference-central.com

Report Writing

The University of Glamorgan near Cardiff Wales has a nice little site on the subject of report writing including their "10 Commandments of Report Writing":
http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk

Research Assistance

"Research Assistance" maintains an inventory of more than 25,000 research reports covering thousands of subjects. Most are available for immediate download. The service claims to be the best single research source in America. If your subject isn't covered in their archives, they will do custom research and writing for you. A valuable research resource. You can download research papers 24 Hours a Day!
http://www.research-assistance.com

The Internet Public Library is an extensive Web resource created by the University of Michigan that will help anyone researching and/or writing a research or term paper. The Internet Public Library (IPL) describes itself as a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information designed to provide complete library services to Internet users. If you are writing or researching a paper, this site is definitely worth checking out.
http://www.ipl.org/

Resume Writing

"Resume-Writing and Cover Letter Secrets Revealed" by Kevin Donlin, is considered by many as the "bible" on resumes and cover letters. It will tell you everything you need to know about writing resumes and cover letters, and it includes many real-life examples. For quality value-added information from an expert in his field, I highly recommend you check out Kevin's book:
http://resumeandcoverlettersecrets.com

Kevin Donlin has put together a FREE "Job Search Kit" that's packed with valuable information on a number of different job search topics including: cover letter strategies, how to e-mail your resume, how to follow up effectively, etc., etc. It even has a FREE Thank You Letter template! Included with it is a FREE copy of Kevin's "get-that-job" series of articles called "Guaranteed Job and Resume Strategies". To receive your own copy of these, send a blank e-mail to the following address:
mailto:freejobkit@getresponse.com

"Master-of-Writing-Resumes" is Dan Eggertson's comprehensive Web site that he says will help you find employment by attacking your resume-writing with confidence. Dan says that attacking your resume means - to deliver eye-popping content to your prospective employers by refining your cover letter, list of career accomplishments, educational background, references, projects/groupwork, and special skills.
http://www.master-of-writing-resumes.com

"Free Resume Database Sites" This service offers you access to hundreds of free resume databases and job posting sites from one single location. They claim you won’t ever need to search for free resume sources again!
http://freeresumesites.com

Sales and Marketing Letters

Yanik Silver has developed a powerful set of fill-in-the-blanks sales letters called "Instant Sales Letters". It contains dozens of proven sales and marketing letter templates for every kind of small business imaginable, from retailers and restaurateurs, to physicians, lawyers, and veterinarians. A fine set of tools that work. I recommend it highly for anyone starting or growing their business:
http://www.instantsalesletters.com

Speech Writing

eSpeeches.com offers all the tools and information you will need whenever you have to write a speech about something. Whether you're the best man at a wedding or a speaker at a conference, there's no escaping the inevitable. They can provide you with all of the tools you will need to write and deliver a great speech. Their tools include free references, a free quotes database, free online tools, and free speech writing tips.
http://www.www.espeeches.com

Study Help

CollegeStudySkills.com is full of resources to help students with all types of academic writing including: essay writing, term papers, and admission essays. In addition to writing assistance, webmaster Rob Rob Seiler, B.Sc.B.Comm (Hons), also offers advice and resources on a variety of study techniques including: speed reading, memory techniques and learning style. Well worth checking out:
http://www.college-study-skills.com

Term Papers and Essays

American Psychological Association(APA): Organization responsible for the APA documentation style, with links to the APA Publication Manual.
http://www.apa.org

General APA Resources and Links
http://www.writinghelp-central.com/apa.html

Modern Language Association of America(MLA): Organization responsible for the MLA documentation style, with links to the MLA Handbook and Manual.
http://www.mla.org

General MLA Resources and Links
http://www.writinghelp-central.com/mla.html

"The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing" is an extensive writing resource site developed by Michael Harvey, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor at Washington College, School of Business Management. He says the site, "... is for anyone who wants to write better. It's intended mainly for college students, but it has also helped lots of other people around the world learn how to write more clearly, gracefully, and effectively." This site offers extensive information resources for anyone who needs help with their writing. If you're writing or researching a paper, you'll want to give this site a look:
http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/nb-home.html

Word Processor

"AbiWord" is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, and so forth. You can download AbiWord at:
http://www.abiword.com/

Writing Assistance

WriteDirections.com is maintained by Beth Mende Conny. It is a resource-rich Web site that is the best that I have found thus far that bridges that gray area divide between practical everyday writing and creative writing. Her site, WriteDirections.com contains an excellent collection of "how-to" articles as well as lots of other good stuff. Don't miss it:
http://www.writedirections.com

Writer's Community

Writing.com is an online community for writers of all ages, interests and skill levels. Anyone may create a free portfolio and exchange feedback with other writers. This site was rated by Writer's Digest's 101 as among the "Best Websites For Writers, 2005" and has thousands of writers within its community.
http://www.writing.com

Wrtiting News and Resources

Writing-News.com Lists writer's resources and writing news from around the globe. It gives you the latest news from a writer's perspective, plus poetry news, resume news and dictionary news. It also provides quick and easy access to the largest online dictionaries.
http://www.writing-news.com

Writing Tools

Writing Help Tools is a one-stop quick reference resource site that offers fully-researched links to the best writing-related resource tools on the Web that are designed to help users with their personal and business writing needs. If you need "how-to" information and practical tools to assist you with your personal or business writing work, Writing Help Tools will point you to resources that will save you time, money, and energy.
http://www.writinghelptools.com