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Cathy Bryant’s writing blog
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Push the Key Blog: Improve the Book Industry, While Improving You
Michael R. Drew’s blog on the book publishing industry. Includes categories such as building your own promotional platform.
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Society of Women Writers & Journalists
UK’s oldest Society for professional women writers.
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Duotrope’s Digest (A Resource for Fiction Writers & Poets)
Duotrope’s Digest, a database of over 2350 current markets for Fiction and Poetry.
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dowse.com – the web gateway for creative minds
Welcome to the Dowse archive for writers, artists and other creative people. Although no new material is currently being added to the site, Dowse remains a valuable resource (effectively an archive) of hundreds of pages of articles, fiction, reviews, links and so on.
Check the large Dowse –> Science Fiction directory within also.
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is a not-for-profit cooperative of artists, whose members are writers, visual artists, makers, performers and musicians. We work with text, music, performance, film and the visual arts, in a variety of contexts with a huge range of people. We also bring artists from abroad to the UK, to play a part in our projects and to work and teach around the country. Most of our projects involve some kind of collaboration, between artists and between art forms.
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Real Writers offer a commercial critiquing and feedback service within the U.K.
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UKAuthors – Online Creative Writing and Poetry Community.
Huge writer’s site with Writer of the Month, forums, articles, journals, poetry, interaction. Publishing Days are Mondays and Fridays.
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Robin Sullivan provides lots of publishing information.
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Absolute Write: freelance writing, screenwriting, playwriting, novels, non-fiction
Absolute Write has two newsletters to sign up to – and you will receive free listings of agents or job markets on signup. The site also sells ebooks, and software for writers, provides a writers directory, a large library of articles on writing, and a healthy writers forum called the Water Cooler. There are also classes / courses sold onsite which vary in content and duration.
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Jobs for writers, contests, markets and several newsletters which are published online also. There are several ebooks available on markets etc, for purchase.
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The Quotations Page – Your Source for Famous Quotes
Writing quotations
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How to write | BBC World Service
The BBC’s How to Write pages are an excellent resource for writers. Learn how to write a novel, a radio play or screenplay, download resources and templates, meet several well known writers who work with the BBC.
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Writers Write — Writer’s Blog and Books, Writing and Publishing Resource
Huge resource of writing articles, resource links, author interviews, news and views. Definately bookmark and add to your RSS feed. Home to the Internet Writing Journal.
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Short Stories: 10 Tips for Novice Creative Writers (Kennedy and Jerz)
Some good first time tips (10 of them) for short story writing
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Daily Writing Tips does what’s promised – there are blog entries daily.
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Writers Online Workshops – Writing Workshops from the publisher of Writer’s Digest
Excellent online workshops, by the publishers of Writer’s Digest. WOW courses are available in several genres, and you have access to experienced tutors to help through the course.
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The University of Guelph provides this resource page, with links through to overviews over the writing process, brainstorming and developing ideas, structuring, thesis focus, overcoming writers block. Slanted to the university student, there is still much here for the new writer.
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Easy Way To Write – Free Writing Tips on How to Write the Easy Way
Rob Parnell’s Easy Way to Write contains several different writing courses – which are delivered via email installments. If you sign up for the newsletter, you will also receive copious writing tips, and free ebook courses.
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FanStory.com – Online Writing Community
FanStory is an online community featuring publications of writing work, reviews, user rankings and contests. The home page has featured poems, stories and highly ranked poems and stories from the community members.
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The Internet Writing Workshop has a blog which publishes news and information for all types of writers.
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The Internet Writing Workshop: Write – Critique – Learn
A set of mailing lists (groups) which communicate via Email, open to all styles and genres of writing. There several critiquing and discussion lists to join and participate in.
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Worldwide Freelance Writer – Freelance Writing 101
The Worldwide Freelance Writer website has a large library of articles written for the new Freelance Writer.
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The Poetry In Colour Forum allows for feedback on other’s work, poetry, essays, short stories, lyrics and more. Registration is free.
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Excellent freelance writing blog by Angela Booth.
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Joan Kremer’s blog which reports on opportunities and resources for writers in Second Life and other virtual worlds.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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February 15th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
These links you put up are incredibly helpful. I have no idea where you get so many but it’s a great resource. Thanks and keep up the good work.
DJSG