Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Another Interesting Writing Link and a Blog Bizness Note

(Everyone: Please let me know if you don't want these types of postings. I wasn't sure if any of you would be interested in links to online writing resources or not and didn't know if I should add any to our writing links section. We've got a great group of people here and we should all have a say so as to what should be posted here or not. I think we're all comfortable enough with each other to be able to express our honest opinions on these types of issues without hurting anyone's feelings.)

Another great writing site I'm falling in love with is http://www.writerswrite.com/ It seems overwhelming at first with the huge amount of information that hits you on that first page. But, I've found some great sections on the left hand side near the middle and bottom of the page. The two sections I've spent a lot of time in are the "Special Section" (which has every form of writing you can image) and the "Resources" section (which includes articles, interviews with authors, writers conferences, writers groups, writing contests, and, the bane of all our existences, grammar searches). Also, under "Jobs and Markets" there's an incredible "Guidelines Database" (for those interested in being published) which includes a search engine which lets you search by keywords (like specific genres), pay status, etc.

And just so you know, Ann Garci, I searched it by the keyword "Christian," checked all pay sources, and checked poetry and there were quite a few publishers to choose from.....HINT HINT!!!!!

Our blog is really picking up steam, which is incredible! I just wanted to let those of you who aren't familiar with Blogger to know that our page is only going to show a certain number of posts, which may not be all the posts for that day. If you scroll to the bottom of the blog, under the last post listed, you'll see "Older Posts" on the right. Click on that and you'll be able to see the posts before the ones on the first page so you won't miss any of the incredible writing being posted here (or the rants depending on how our writing went, haha!).

2 comments:

Sally said...

I like the links and postings, please continue. Again, thank you for providing us with this blog.

Anonymous said...

I definitely vote to keep these kinds of postings coming. They are absolutely relevant and of interest.