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Writing and Writer’s Resources

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005 at 7:24 AM Category: Links, Meryl's Notes Blog, Writing No comments

Better and more updated list of free tools and sites for writers.

This lists resources related to writing and for writers around the Web. It’s a growing list, so check back again to see new ones added. Though you can find most of these sites through your favorite search engine, it doesn’t provide you with a description of the site. Plus, searching for “writing resources” or “writer resources” could lead to results with many useless sites that abuse keywords for a better search engine ranking.

You can submit your site for review. Not all submissions automatically make the list. They’re reviewed for quality content.

A good place to start in finding many quality resources for writers is Writer’s Digest Best 101 Web Sites for Writers – 2005.

Absolute Write – contains more than 1,000 pages of content including articles, columns, interviews, book reviews, writing markets, and forums. It has two newsletters: Absolute Write Newsletter (info on home page), which goes out every week and the Absolute Markets Newsletter (free and premium editions available), they go out every other week with premium one week and free the following week. These contain (depending on edition) markets (U.S. and airmail), interviews with editors, and a long list of opportunities (premium, obviously).

Long Story Short – a magazine for writers includes book reviews, book excerpts, interviews, articles, poetry, and has recently added a writing school.

E-Write – offers a newsletter, E-Writing Bulletin, and an index of articles from the newsletter covering business writing, email writing / marketing, and web writing. It also includes a list of onsite writing courses along with the dates and locations.

Paul Conley provides detailed reports on the trade press.

Just Services with funding from Arts Council England set up Disability Writes to help disabled people who face barriers in getting support and encouragement to write. It promotes the work of disabled writers to a wide audience of disabled and non-disabled people through its Web site and printed publications. People with disabilities can post their work on the site and receive constructive feedback.

University of Wisconsin at Madison – offers guidelines and resources for writing proposals. Proposal references are sorted by diferent types such as non-government, research, and federal. The site also links to a list of recommended books on proposal writing.

commnet Writing and Writers Resources

Guide to Grammar and Writing has digital handouts on grammar and English usage, over 170 computer-graded quizzes, frequently asked grammar questions, and much more.

NextBigWriter Writing and Writers Resources

The Next Big Writer

Site that helps find undiscovered writing talent through feedback on writing work and reviews on existing works.

Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) provides superb resources covering writing, research, grammar, and MLA and APA style. Dumb Little Man provides a list of 40 grammar and writing tips from OWL, so you can quickly find what you want.

Clive Pyne Book Indexing has a list of writer resources similar to this one and others. The site also has a few articles on indexing.

Query Letters I Love has actual, honest to goodness query letters received in Hollywood. Thanks, David.

Resource Site for Authors of Historical Fiction

The books featured on this site are mainly historical works of fiction. Authors who submit their books have the chance to be featured for one week. Also contains writing and publishing tips and resources.

Publishing Central is a great resource to find articles from around the Web on just about every topic related to publishing.

Joe Wikert’s Book Publisher Blog

Joe Wikert is a Vice President and Executive Publisher in the Professional/Trade division of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. He shares advice about writing, publishing, and technology.

Writers Write is a massive resource for writers that you can get lost and spend all day there. It has everythng books (reviews, giveaway, blog), job postings, community forums, and specialty sections covering different genres.

Updated: July 17, 2007