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Non
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Biography
Find
A good starting point for
biographers and non-fiction writers generally, this site allows you to
search or browse 20,000 paragraph-length biographies of notable personalities
from antiquity to the present. Its details are drawn from the Cambridge
Encyclopaedia Database and the Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography.
Brevity
A journal of concise literary
non fiction is what it says, and that's what it is. Intimate detail-rich
essays weighing in at fewer that 750 words. And if that's too long, try
your hand at the Creative NonQuiction contest
- non-fiction of 250 words or fewer.
Creative
Journaling
The creative journal method,
developed by art therapist and workshop leader Dr Lucia Capacchione, draws
on right-brain left-brain research in the field of healing and creativity
- particularly writing and drawing with the non-dominant hand. As well
as being used therapeutically in counselling and support groups for people
with AIDS or cancer, it's also used for developing creativity in writing
and art. Exercises are online at this site. They're aimed at helping you
explore and expand your definition of creativity as well as tap its hidden
potential via creative journal keeping. The emphasis, whether in getting
to grips with dreams or overcoming writing blocks, is on affirmative philosophies
that allow you to build inner strength and self-esteem for taking on new
challenges.
Das
GenerationenProjekt: Ein halbes Jahrhundert in Hypertext
The text of this site is
in German, no English version, so if your German is rusty, here's an opportunity
to polish it up. A rough translation of the title is: The Generation
Project: A half-century in hypertext. Jan Ulrich Hasecke has created
a simple, but moving, hypertext time-line of people's eye-witness accounts
of historical events in Europe from 1950 to the present and on to the close
of the millennium. There are childhood memories from a boy playing in the
parks of Warsaw and of the death of Stalin in 1953, terrorism in Germany
in the 1970s, and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. More personal experiences
are sought as the century draws to an end.
Editor
and Publisher
For publishing news
about US newspapers, this site is worth a visit. With international links
as well as national ones it provides a comprehensive entry point to resources
about print and broadcast news.
Find
A Grave
Sounds morbid? Not a bit
of it. It is an unusual take on the needs of non-fiction writers, biographers,
journalists and academics to track down information on those no longer
living. It features a directory of the locations of the graves of thousands
of famous dead people with photographs of many of the graves. Visitors
can browse by name, location, and the deceased's claim to fame. The site
also includes links to external sites and bibliographies.
Heart
Of Albion
This UK small press publisher
started out in 1990 printing booklets on Leicestershire and Rutland local
history. Mostly it has dealt in print, but latterly has started to do some
disk-based and online publications. Paper is not dead here, but future
projects will mostly involve electronic publishing on disk, CD-ROM or via
WWW. Some are already on the Web site. Many more small press non-fiction
publishers will be treading this path before too long.
A
Journalist's Guide To The Internet
Christopher Callahan is
an associate dean of journalism at the University of Maryland at College
Park. This excellent site compliments his book of the same name and ought
to be bookmarked by anybody with any interests in using the Internet as
a tool for journalism. The emphasis is on the United States and most of
the links are specific - federal and state government, the FBI etc. - but
the principles he discusses are applicable to anyone, anywhere. He covers
inter alia the use of Newsgroups, listservs, online newspaper archives
and journalism links in a brisk, business-like manner.
Lives,
The Biography Resource
A vital site for non-fiction
writers who need to do some biographical research. It has an extensive,
annotated directory of links to sites that focus on the lives of individuals
or groups of people. Also collections of links to other biographical resources,
including primary biographical source material such as images, diaries,
memoirs, correspondence, interviews, oral histories, etc.
NewsLink
Network
Of interest to all North
American working freelance journalists, this news service based in Calgary,
Canada uses a database of stories contributed by journalists that provides
a wide variety of story leads and contacts. Writers can not only pick up
pointers, ideas and potential interview candidates, they can also provide
leads to the database themselves and earn a commission as well.
Online
Journalism Review
A practical and comprehensive
non-fiction resource from the Annenberg School for Communication that mixes
hard news with commentary and features on writing journalism about and
on the Web. Whether it's the control AOL has over news content or the growth
in non-English languages on the Web to online training programmes on the
Net, these are the issues that journalists today need to be aware of. Content
is updated weekly.
Writers
International for Nature and the Environment
WINE is a community-based
site of people exploring the planet and sharing what they find with others
through their writing about nature and the environment. Targeted resources
and market guidelines are part and parcel of the site, so too is a newsletter.
Members can also take part in a free critique workshop. For newcomers to
the form, there's a tutorial to work through that guides you through the
early stages of keeping a journal and developing your powers of observation
and writing voice.
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