character ideas & helps.

http://www.janeespenson.com/archives/00000608.php
http://throwingthings.blogspot.com/2004/02/better-be-good-to-me-you-all-know.html
http://chuckthisblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/17/journeys-and-stories-and-plots-oh-my/
http://chuckthisblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/cat-squad-collission-with-the-past/

http://alamedawritersgroup.org/