What's your favorite writing resource?

Writer's Digest website is my candy shop. I can go on there and drool for hours

- blogs about every imaginable thing you're thinking about from how to write to how to find agents and publishers, to how to market, to how ...well how-to everything I needed to learn how to do.

- contests and prompts

- a book store that also breaks it all up into every aspect of writing

- list of writing sites

...well, basically, if I've had a question (and I do often) that's my go to place to find an answer.

Only problem is it really is like a candy store for me. I might have gone to find a piece of chocolate, but I'm there two to four hours later, still gobbling up more chocolate, find the peanuts, sampling some of them, while hitting the gummy bears, and sampling them, too, and...well, unlike a candy store, the place never closes down to kick me out. I'll go in determined "I just want to learn how to do this part for my story," and come out having received so much more that I forgot to find my original question answered, and I've just spent that much time NOT working on my book. lol

It says for better fanfiction, but this site has some great writing tips and has actually changed the quality of my writing for the better.

http://www.waynesthisandthat.com/writefanfic.htm

Tips such as:

BEWARE OF MID-BOOK DOLDRUMS. If you're writing a novel, halfway through it many writers get tired and write accordingly. Prepare for this in advance and concentrate on maintaining an increasing sense of suspense and expectation throughout the book. Put a plot twist, a shocking character disclosure, or let the reader discover some interesting new fact in every chapter, especially those in the middle of the book. Don't let the reader say to himself, "This looks like a good place to stop for the night." He may do so and never look at your story again.

81. THE ORDINARY IS IMPORTANT. Commonplace details are as important as unusual details in maintaining interest. Without something normal to compare it to, the extraordinary has no reference to show how extraordinary it is.

Just like really straight-forward and helpful advice.

This is a good site that offers good information about every aspect of writing new writers can use. It ought to be in BOLD red font in the header of the Books and Authors section. Then maybe we can have fewer questions like:

I need help with character names?

Do you think I should write this story?

Which publisher should I use for my first novel?

Here's my plot, will it sell?

I love writing, but don't know what to write about?

Will someone steal my idea?

...and other inane questions ad nauseam.

Wikipedia

Wattpad

Dearblankpleaseblank.com

Iwastesomuchtime.com

Pottermore

Three things:

1) Google. Because everything is on Google.

2) www.editminion.com

It's simple. There are tons of other tools that do the same thing and more. But I like it for its simplicity. I run my writing through it every few thousand words to keep myself on track. It gives me a good baseline idea for how I'm doing on passive voice and adverbs.

And of course

3)OpenOffice.

Thank you for that great link! I'm going to have so much fun exploring it :D

I find this blog (http://blog.janicehardy.com)/ pretty helpful. She has a lot of great advice on it. Also, when I find an author whose work I deeply admire, I read their novels again as a writer, studying and taking in their technique.

Probably the writer's digest magazine. I think I need to get a subscription so I don't miss an issue.

Google!

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