Support for New Writers
Author-me.com is a site by a colleague of mine at Columbia college, Bruce Cook, that works as a community support group for young and new writers. From the "about" page:

When we invented this website in February, 1999, we wanted to serve writers who felt frustrated because their writing career fell short of their expectations. For example, we recognized the plight of many potential authors who...achieved success in a fiction writing class in college or high school, but never continued their initial work. (Does this differ much from brilliant musical performers who, after high school band and a few successful gigs, simply put their trumpet or French horn into the case--forever?)

Author-me.com is a friendly, homey kind of site; one where you would expect to meet aunts and uncles that also were writers. I say this because there is a great deal of Christian content on the site, and my family is quite religious. (For my religious views, see the Gematriculator post below.)

Link [thanks Bruce!]
- posted by frank crist @ 12:44 PM