Not an active site, but content is worth a visit.
Great resource from Dennis Jerz at Seton Hill University.
Useful guide from University of California at Berkeley.
Useful advice on writing for the computer screen.
Our first Webwriting guru, still pushing into new territory.
A site with good advice on Website creation, news about online news, and other matters of concern to Web writers.
An excellent polemic on good and bad online communication.
Good way to remember the "you" attitude in online writing!
Nielsen is a pioneer in this field, and always worth reading.
Lively and readable!
When you can't make up your mind about email or e-mail, this usage handbook can help.
Excellent guide to writing English for those with English as a second or third language.
Perhaps the most exhaustive discussion on writing for the Web in its many forms.
Passionately argued introduction to writing sales copy for the Web.
Emphasis is on adapting newspaper stories to Web sites, but the principles apply to other print media as well.
Lively guide to writing for the Web, with some clear technical advice as well.
This just arrived via the mail list of the Canadian Association of Journalists, and I hasten to pass it along. If you're a freelance writer in the Vancouver area, this could be of interest:
The Conference Publishers is seeking freelance writers to cover the 2006 National Forum on Emergency Preparedness and Response in Vancouver.Writers are needed to produce 1800 word summaries of a pandemic flu exercise scheduled for December 14, 2006 (9 a.m. to 3 p.
m.); turn-around time for reports is three working days. If you are available and interested, please contact Biljana Zelenovic at biljana@theconferencepublishers.
com or 1-800-265-3973 x226.
Why inequality is hazardous to your health.
About a couple of remarkable Vancouver world-music groups.
About blogging in education: an idea whose time has not yet come.
My first book for adults, great fun to research and write, published in 1978.
Published in 1995, outdated in some respects, but some issues in education never change (unfortunately).
In a parallel timeline, 1990s America discovers the chronoplanes: parallel worlds at different points in history.
The hijacking of the Roman Empire, 100 AD, by 21st-century Christian fundamentalists, in the second of the Chronoplane Wars novels.
My first novel, published in 1978, but the last in the Chronoplane Wars trilogy.
"Write a space opera," my editor said. So I did, with some nanotech thrown in.
A companion novel to Icequake, set mostly in California.
A disaster thriller (Antarctic ice sheet surges into ocean), dated but still fun.
Originally published in 1982, and still the novel I'm most proud of.
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