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Literary Resources on the Web
Screenwriting
Wikipedia, Screenwriter offers a good introduction to different aspects of screenwriting.
Screenwriting Info offers some great info about the different steps and understanding needed to write a screenplay.
The Internet Movie Data Base offers information about movies, including capsule reviews, cast lists, and production notes.
The Screenwriter's Utopia is a great new site for screenwriters. It offers interviews, newsletters and up-to-date information. A great new resource for screenwriters.
The Writers Guild offers information about screenwriting and has a registration service for screenplays.
Final Draft is an industry standard for formatting program for writing screenplays.
Reddit is a site that collects and rates information about screenwriting.
Theater Seat Store offers tips about how to write a play in a correct format and how to write and format a screenplay.
Literary Links
Willamette Writers is one of the largest writer's groups in Oregon, and their new web site offers a number of links to other writer's groups and organizations.
Sit Down and Write: Poetry Resources is a site that offers an introduction to writing poetry.
Writers on the Net offers tutoring, literary mentors, classes, writer's groups. A good site to connect with other writers.
Reddit on Writing offers links to articles on writing that are rated by their popularity.
Nanowrimo is an annual program with a national writing month, when writers who participate write a novel in a month.
Absolute Write, Jenna Glatzer's web site, offers classes, marketing information, and forums for writers with information about developing story characters.
Writers Digest On-line offers articles on writing, information about the Writers Digest writing contests, and the Writers Digest Book Club.
The Creative Penn Joanna Penn offers interviews and articles about writing, marketing and self-publishing, and understanding what a story is.
Movie Reviews
Rotten Tomatoes collects reviews of current movies and DVD rentals.
Internet Movie Data Base offers information about movies, including cast info and a search function that brings up info about a wide range of movies.
New York Times on Movies offers reviews and trailers for current movies.
Book Reviews
NPR Book Reviews of current novels.
Wikipedia Overview of Book Reviews offers a discussion about book reviews.
Play Reviews
New York Times Theater Page offers reviews of current plays being performed in New York.
Theatre In Chicago reviews and listings of current productions.
New York Theatre Guide offers capsule reviews of theaters in New York.
Blogs on Writing
The Ultimate Fiction Writing Resource Guide, 43 worthwhile fiction-writing resources, including fiction prompts and exercises, short story and novel writing resources, and more.
Advanced Fiction Writing Blog offers tips on writing by Randy Ingermanson - "the Snowflake Guy".
