Personality Behavior Pattern Correlations | The Four Temperaments of David Keirsey: see the summary matrix. Assume your character's personality and take the preferences test based on a Jung-Myers-Briggs typology. Score the test online and read the detailed descriptions of your character's nature. Here are 43 more personality tests. Learn about careers compatible with your character's personality & interests. |
Writers.Net | WritersNet discussion forums bring writers and publishing professionals from around the world together to share writing experiences. Find and evaluate literary agents. Imagine the Big Bear writers group with ten thousand participants! |
Writers Free Reference | A list of free reference sites of interest to writers... well thought out, practical. Obviously created by a working writer for other working writers: eclectic, quirky. Fun to browse. |
Visual Thesaurus | This is a remarkable portal for the exploration of human spirits, values, attitudes, principles and emotions: PlumbDesign's Visual Thesaurus.) |
Don Swaim Interviews celebrated writers | Listen to interviews with over 125 contemporary writers; including Tom Clancy, Isaac Asimov, Robert Ludlum, Gloria Steinem, Irving Stone and a hundred others. Inspirational. You will need a copy of the (free) RealPlayer software on your system to access these half hour programs. |
The Wayback Machine | Founded in 1996, the Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, it provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. The Wayback Machine is a Web interface to the Archive's five-year, 100-terabyte collection of Web pages and was unveiled on October 24th 2001 at the Library of Congress. Awesome. An instant route to immortality for web authors like me. |
Directories of Publishers | Book Publisher links from Writerswrite.com |
Easily Overlooked Resources online | Amazon.com sells books of course, but they also provide a wide range of reference features for locating and evaluating published books. Google.com is a widely used search engine; it's Advance Search features provide means for analysis as well. |