Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Loads of online writing resources!

    I've been finding a lot of online writing resources recently, and I though I'd share them with you!
    The first one is an ezine called Teen Inklings that comes out once a month and covers a different topic on how to make your writing better in each one. It is written by a 16 year old with the pen name Christian Miles, and can be found at teeninklings.blogspot.com 
    Next is the Advanced Fiction Writing Ezine, which can be found at www.advancedfictionwriting.com/ezine I haven't looked at it much since I don't like the style of the website, but that's just me ;) There's a bunch of other stuff on the website as well, including the "Snowflake Method" for creating a plot outline.
    Where The Map Ends (wherethemapends.com) is a website on writing Christian fiction, but there's a lot of good stuff on there for anyone! My favorite is the Tip of the Week column (You'll have to skim through a lot of Christian stuff if that's not what you want to read). 
    Teenage Authors is a GREAT website with loads of tips that unfortunately seems to have not been updated for a while. It can be found at teenageauthor.wordpress.com Make sure to check out the "Get Published" page, even if you're not looking to be published, since it's a great list of ezines and magazines!
    www.sfwa.org also has some good tips, mostly at the "Writing Tips " and "The Craft of Writing " pages.
    That's about it... There's also NaNoWriMo, but that's finished for the year.
For an offline resource, Writing Magic by Gail Carson Levine is absolutely amazing. Unlike most writing books, the exercises in it are both interesting and helpful. Plus you might get a really good bit of writing out of it!
    And this one's just for fun :) As I was finding all the links for this post I ran across this typing speed test. speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com
    I hope you found this useful!
    If I left out any resources that you know of, leave it in a comment.
    Sara

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