Useful links!

"This page is intended to help role-players and authors of sci-fi and fantasy to, as the title suggests, create a world which resembles the Earth - that is, a world in which humans could live and develop societies similar to those with which we are familiar."

And for more on exciting writing, the Poynter Institute's tips on writing a page-turner.

Via the Journalist's Toolbox: The Summer Institute for Midcareer Copy Editors. Pretty self-explanatory.

For the kids: the Student Press Law Center, which gives you advice and free legal counsel (so get to slandering!)