Gale Literature Resource Center - Contains up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world.

Humanities Full Text - Provides full text, abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as specialized magazines.

Literary Reference Center - Provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.

Bloom’s Literature - Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.

OED Oxford English Dictionary - The OED is considered by many to be the definitive record of the English language, featuring 600000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1000 years of English.

eBook Central - e-Book collection of over 16,000 titles.

eBooks on Ebscohost - Online collection of e-books on most topics.

Gale eBooks - Online collection of general and subject-specific encyclopedias on all major topic areas.

NaNoWriMo - A U.S. based nonprofit organization that promotes creative writing around the world. The goal of National Novel Writing Month is "to write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days. Now, each year on November 1, hundreds of thousands of people around the world begin to write, determined to end the month with 50,000 words of a brand new novel. They enter the month as elementary school teachers, mechanics, or stay-at-home parents. They leave novelists."

Random Plot Generator - This website provides free writing prompts and exercises to help jumpstart the creative writing process. This source can help develop a story-line and bypass writer's block.

Pro Writing Aid - This is a free resource that will check for grammar, vocabulary, and style consistency. This can be tailored to enrich creative fiction writing, or be utilized in academic writings. Pro Writing Aid can integrate with whichever writing program you prefer.

edWordle: This site, not to be confused with the popular phone game, is an editing tool that can be used to create a word cloud of your stories. Using a word cloud is helpful in identifying overused words, key terms that can be used to describe your work, and inspiration for title names.

Writers Helping Writers - WHW has a plethora of writing tools that are free to use and provide structure to the writing process. By breaking down different types of writers as "plotters" (those who plan ahead), "pantsers" (those who fly by the seat of their pants), and "plantsers" (the middle ground between the two), Writers Helping Writers indicates which tool is most helpful to which type of writer. The tools range from helping with character motivation and their backstory to finding the right occupation for them.

Hive Word - Hiveword is a planning tool to use when mapping out the scenes, characters, and plot lines of the story. Scenes can be sorted in a filtered mode and the interface can help with plotline visualization.

Story Structure Database - This is a helpful database that archives the major plot points of many of the books and movies that you know and love. Each individual entry is an overview of the plot, pointing out the key elements that lead to the work being a compelling story.