I thought of Stan's Student when I first saw this link for "Write a Novel" (http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/novel), but it has some great pdf. download articles with topics such as the elements of a successful story, ten points on plotting, scene construction, and symbolism, which I know will be helpful to me in writing my creative piece for class.
For those of you who may have missed it in a previous comment, Stan's Student provided the link to the National Novel Writing Month site or nanowrimo for short. He has been an active participant in this event and has won the last three years! He's promised, as the time gets closer, to blog about the contest and his participation.
(Wow, reading over this, it's obvious Lesson 7 hasn't sunk in yet. Yikes!!!!)
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
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!).
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!).
Possible Writing Links of Interest
Science-fiction writer Michael A. Burstein has a livejournal blog at http://mabfan.livejournal.com/ with some interesting links for writers along the right-hand side near the bottom of the blog.
If you're a science-fiction writer, you'll be in heaven with all the information he includes. But, even if you're not part of the SF genre, there's a couple of websites he links to that I think would be of interest to any writer: The Grand Index of Writing has some amazing articles for beginning writers regarding ideas, word usage, the common mistakes of beginning writers, etc. that I'm really enjoying. Then, for those who have publishing dreams, the links for Robert J. Sawyer: Landing an Agent and Ralan's Publishing Index have some wonderful information.
Have fun!
If you're a science-fiction writer, you'll be in heaven with all the information he includes. But, even if you're not part of the SF genre, there's a couple of websites he links to that I think would be of interest to any writer: The Grand Index of Writing has some amazing articles for beginning writers regarding ideas, word usage, the common mistakes of beginning writers, etc. that I'm really enjoying. Then, for those who have publishing dreams, the links for Robert J. Sawyer: Landing an Agent and Ralan's Publishing Index have some wonderful information.
Have fun!
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