Play with words

IF YOU are a wannabe writer or someone struggling to find his feet in the game of weaving words, there is help at hand, with several websites providing useful tips.

Writerswrite.com

This site provides resources for writers. It includes job listings, author interviews, chat and message boards.

Absolutewrite.com

This site contains articles, interviews and resources for screenwriting, freelance writing, playwriting, novels and non- fiction and business writing.

Momwriters.com

This is an online community of professional and new writers who face the challenges of writing with children underfoot. It offers articles, resources, contests and discussion forums.

Literaryagent.com

This is an online directory of literary agents as well as discussion forums, articles and advice on finding an agent.

Purefiction.com

This is a website for anybody who loves to read - or aspires to write - bestselling fiction. There are book reviews and previews, writing advice, an online book shop, a writer's showcase and Internet links.

Books like films serve two purposes. They help us escape the world we are living in and also to understand it (the world). And most of us are aware that the habit of reading is becoming less of a habit and more of a luxury. And that's not good. May be this post-modern phenomenon of online books (most of them free) would arrest this trend.

Booksbtc.com

This website provides access to over 3000 free classic books.

Http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/lists.html

Here you have a collection of 14,000 English works in various formats. They are free for personal and non-commercial use.

Http://hca.gilead.org.il/

Here you could read all of Hans Christian Andersen's 168 tales in English.

Http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/

Here you could read thousands of free online books.

Shakespeare.com

This is an interactive, hyperactive environment dedicated to the enjoyment of Shakespeare's works.

Authorsden.com

This site lists authors and their works, with news, articles and events.

Sidneysheldon.com

Meet Sidney Sheldon at his own site.

Dailyprophetnews.com

This is a bi-weekly newspaper that covers current events, comics and discoveries from the enchanted world of Harry Potter.

Http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/

This is the publisher's site for the Harry Potter series. It includes chapter excerpts, discussion guides and fun and games with Harry Potter.

Http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/Harrys/rhetform.html

If words are the building blocks of meaning, rhetorical devices are tools for fashioning the manner in which the meaning is conveyed.

This website is an online guide of rhetorical devices and a glossary of literary terms.

Chiasmus.com

This website is about that fabulous literary device chaismus. Here's a sample chaismus (mouthed by Churchill) taken from the site.

"All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

Compiled by PRINCE FREDERICK

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