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Here are some of my favorite links for people who are curious about things like world news, writing and me.

Happy surfing.

Writing Resources for Writers and Writing Teachers:

Randy Ingermanson's fabulous “Snowflake” plan for plotting and writing fiction
http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/

Are you a teen writer? Here's a site for you
http://teenwriting.about.com/

Are you looking for an on-line community of writers? Try this one
http://www.writing.com/

Want to get some inspiring new ideas? Here are loads of them
http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/

Need help with your special writing project? Check out this site
http://www.google.com/Top/Arts/Writers_Resources/

And here's probably the world's best one-stop shop for information about writing
http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

The Chicago Style Manual is a must-have resource
http://www.libs.uga.edu/ref/chicago.html

Double-check your grammar and documentation citations at this site
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/

And for online tutoring and writing help, The Purdue On-Line Writer site is famous
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Look up words without leaving your computer by going to
http://dictionary.reference.com/

Find that word that’s exactly right:
http://thesaurus.reference.com/thesaurus/

And if you're looking for activities for visual learners, here's a site for you
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?vt

Do you want to publish a book? Look at this Writers' Digest site first
http://www.writersdigest.com/topics/getpublished.asp

And if you want to buy a book, of course there’s always
http://www.amazon.com

Links for other interests:

Czech and Slovak culture:
http://www.ncsml.org/

For world news, check out
http://news.bbc.co.uk/ and http://www.nytimes.com/

If you’re curious about where I work, click here
www.utsa.edu/trcss or http://www.utsa.edu/trcss/staff/index.cfm

And if you’re curious about where I go to church, click here
www.fbcuc.org