The future of free education is NOW. Check out available MOOC courses. Granted, most are not writing-oriented. But free knowledge simply gives us more to write about.

http://www.mooc-list.com/

If you do not use Submittable to submit your writing, then log-in today and create an account. More and more publications use this submission manager. As writers, Submittable is also an excellent way of keeping our submissions organized.

http://www.submittable.com/

The Review Review is the most comprehensive site out there where we can access reviews on publications. It is a wiki that allows us to offer our own reviews as well.

http://www.thereviewreview.net/

There's more to literary devices than metaphors and similes. For a reminder check out this great website:

http://literary-devices.com/

Check out thewritepractice.com for great advice on how a scene list can "Change your novel-writing life."

http://thewritepractice.com/scene-list/

For further down-to-Earth info on our Rights please visit the Writing-World.com site:

http://www.writing-world.com/rights/rights.shtml

Useful tool to recall and understand poetic definitions.

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/glossary

Check out the Berne Convention info and much more.

http://www.sfwa.org/for-authors/writer-beware/copyright/

Your writing is protected

In addition, the U.S. Copyright Office here in the States also has reassuring copyright info: http://www.copyright.gov/

Interested in submitting your own book review? Check out this site:

http://writingcenter.unc.edu/resources/handouts-demos/specific-writing-assignments/book-reviews

Here's great advice on submitting a short story.

http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html

Great website to keep track of your submissions and get a line on 100s of publications both print and ezine.

http://www.duotrope.com/recentupdates.aspx

200 essays and interviews to help you write memoirs

http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/

William Shunn's advice on proper manuscript formatting.

http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html

C. Hope Clark's award-winning, online resource of grants, contests and markets for writers.

http://www.fundsforwriters.com/

Check out Literary Magazines, a cornucopia of information on literary publications.

everywritersresource.com/literarymagazines

Indies Unlimited not only celebrates independent authors but it supplies multiple learning opportunities. Check it out and subscribe today.

http://www.indiesunlimited.com/

Need a jump start? Writer's block? Writing prompts can keep the creative juices flowing. Check out this site:

http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/

Everyone needs help with grammar. Here's a great on-line academic resource:

http://www.public.asu.edu/~gelderen/grammar.htm

Read article on Simon and Shuster's entry into the self-publishing market.

http://www.freep.com/article/20121127/FEATURES05/121127074/Simon-Schuster-starts-self-publishing-venture?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|p

This is an excellent article that encourages all of us to embrace the graphic designer within us.

http://www.indiesunlimited.com/2013/01/28/be-your-own-graphics-designer/?goback=%2Egde_2668007_member_208918877

Passager's mission is to bring attention to those of us who are older writers, to encourage the imagination throughout our lives, and to create in the words of the editorial staff, "a publication so beautiful and welcoming that people would want to read it and be published in it."

http://www.passagerbooks.com/about-us/

Great blog aimed at 50 plus memoir writers.

http://www.ronnibennett.typepad.com/elderstorytelling/

750 word limit for submissions

This magazine is designed to appeal to "boomers" and to thoughtful people of all ages. 'Still Crazy' looks for fresh perspectives and material that challenges patronizing, sentimental, or stereotyping attitudes towards aging.

http://www.crazylitmag.com/index.php

It is published biannually in January and July. Submissions are welcome. Check guidelines.

GENERATIONS Literary Journal publishes the original works and ideas of both emerging and established artists in an effort to encourage conversations across the generational gaps.

http://www.generationslitmag.org/

Great example of do-it-yourselfers who are helping the rest of us to just do it.

http://silverboomerbooks.com/about.html

Want to support universal health care? For the creative activists among you, check out Healthy Artists.

http://healthyartists.org/

In their own words: 'Healthy Artists is topic-specific and selective, showcasing the finest creative arguments for universal health care and providing a general audience with an educational resource for learning more about the issue from an intellectual, emotional, and artistic perspective.' The editor is especially interested in visual and musical artists to share their creativity for the cause.

I find Gene D. Cohen’s essay on Creativity and Aging to be encouraging (A Guide to Humanistic Studies in Aging 2010). Dr. Cohen is challenging conventional wisdom regarding what researchers in the past have chosen to either disbelieve or ignore; Creativity increases with age. I find his Creativity equation fascinating.

C=me2 (square)

According to Dr. Cohen, creativity (C) is the result of our mass (m) of knowledge, multiplied by the effects of our two dimensions of experience (e-squared). The first dimension is our inner world experience reflecting maturity through psychological and emotional growth over the years. The second dimension is our outer world encounters, reflecting the accumulated life experiences as we interact with all that is around us.

What do you think of Cohen's Creativity equation?

"I have reigned more than fifty years in victory and peace," the great caliph Abdul Rahim once remarked. "During this time I have been beloved by my people, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure have all been at my beck and call, nor has any earthly pleasure been missing to complete my sense of perfect bliss. In this situation I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness that have fallen to my lot. They number fourteen."