If you're looking for free literature/text sites and writing resources that aren't worthless heaps, we humbly suggest these places. If you'd like, you can also add your own link.
- CMU's Books On-Line
Possibly the Internet's most exhaustive, friendly index of free electronic texts. This site offers searches of (and links to) every major etext library--from Gutenberg to Wiretap, and is updated with terrifying frequency. - Complete Works of William Shakespeare, The
Just what it says...from sonnets to epics to plays, in an unpretentious format. - Internet Classics Archive
A comprehensive collection of ancient Greek and Roman texts. If you like that sort of thing. - Outer Rim, The
Technically the GeoCities: Area51 community-specific 'zine, OR nonetheless includes quality science fiction and fantasy writing on occasion. (Well, and it's edited by yours truly...) - Project Gutenberg
The original distributor of free "plain vanilla e-etexts"...visit this site for a wide variety of unjaded ASCII texts, or to volunteer (community service...).
- The Inkspot
A good all-around writing source. - Roget's Thesaurus
Surprisingly enough, this site finds words that mean approximately the same thing as that damn phrase you've already used twice in the last paragraph... - Slot, The
Bill Walsh, an editor for the Washington Post claims his site is a resource for copy editors...however, from the Curmudegon's Stylebook to Sharp Points, The Slot offers sensible, inelligent advice applicable to any writer, journalist or no. - Some notes on non-sexist language
Despite the recent national reversion to gender-unfriendly language, non-sexism in writing is just simple common courtesy. Get the details at this concise page. - Virtual Sample Copy
Looking for a publisher who won't laugh his/her ass off at you? Virtual Sample Copy has all sorts of information about various publishers--from submission guidelines to advances, preferred subject matter to publication history.
The legal stuff. . .This page probably doesn't represent the thoughts, opinions, etc. of the entire Indiana Academy. In fact, I would bet it doesn't even come close. What's more, it's copyrighted 1998 by the Warren. . . with all poetry, prose, and graphics copyrighted by their authors. If you copy or reproduce any bit of this site without its creator's permission, you are violating all sorts of laws, not to mention ethics. We will pursue action through your ISP.
This site is updated each time the Warren receives a new submisson. Calm down, that's not very often. The last update was November 14.
The On-line Warren is maintained by R. Riall. If you encounter technical problems with this version of the Warren, address them to rlriall@bsu.edu. However, if your message is about the 5014th Vault, The Outer Rim, or a GeoCities CL message, it needs to go to her alter ego at sun-hater@oocities.com
.
The Warren is a literary magazine of the Indiana Academy. It is entirely student-produced -- from writings to publication -- and is in no way subject to administrative censure. No Burris students were harmed in the creation of this website.