Creative Writing

This section offers links to websites that specialise in Creative Writing. Here you will find also find online communities of reading and writers groups (Links open in a new window).

The Never Ending Story
Write the first page and someone else will write the second....and so it goes. Sign up for free to The Never Ending Story website and join this online interactive story tellin group. Read stories by famous faces. Listen to audio interviews with established authors and much more. A must for all book lovers

U Writer Novel Builder
Resources for budding authors. Get free novel writing software and other fabulous resources for writers including how to find out the difference between editors and preditors. Click on the For Writers menu button to find information about writing articles.

YOU Reading Group
The YOU Reading Group is part of You magazine, free with the Sunday Mail. You can read about its Featured Books in the Sunday magazine then log on to find information on local reading groups and offers for good priced books. This site has lots of browsing options for the part-time or avid reader.

Book Crossing
Leave your book on a park bench, at a coffee shop, at a hotel on vacation. Share it with a friend or tuck it onto a bookshelf at the gym - anywhere it might find a new reader! What happens next is up to fate, and nobody knows where the books might travel next. This exciting new initiative now has thousands of members . Sign up (its free) and track your book's journey around the world as it is passed on from person to person.

ABC Tales
Enter this site and write your own stories or read others' on ABC Tales - a truly great site where you can develop your own writing skills. A perfect accompanyment to your weekly class. You need to register to get the best out of this site, but it is free and you will get the occasional e-mail letting you know news about the site.

The British Library
While not exactly Creative Writing this new site from the British Library Sounds Familiar celebrates the UKs different accents. Click on the map of Brtain to hear the spoken language of each area. Fascinating stuff.

Again from the British Library Why Write? explores why we write; how writing works; ways of writing and looks at the 26 letters of what we know as the alpahbet. The site incorporates activities and loads of fascinating facts and information.

Turning the Pages from the British Library is not to be missed. Archives of their great books which you can literally leaf through.

BBC RAW
Once again the BBC comes up trumphs with its series of games and quizzes to assist with Reading and Writing skills.

Spacejock
The Spacejock site has information for aspiring authors on the act of writing, getting an agent and more. It has been put together by Simon Haynes, the Australian of the Hal Spacejock novels. His site also contains free software which he originally wrote for his own use, but which is now made available for anyone to download. Programs include BookDB (Book catalogue software), yWriter (free novel writing program) and Sonar (Short story or article submissions tracking software). His Spacejock Software contains no ads or spyware.