More great links for writers:

YWriter: a really GREAT little software for writers for  PC.

Mama’s Losing It Writer’s Workshops:  Prompts and other tidbits to get your writerly mama gene workin’

Tools for Writers: Katrina does a great job of listing resources that help develop your craft

How to Get your Book Published Workshop: from Writer’s Digest, a steal at $49

AutoCrit Editing Wizard

Well, much needs to be done on this blog, but since my laptop crashed, I have not been editing. That was 8/27, but I picked it up last night and it felt GOOOOOOD.

I realize it’s only about 6 weeks to NANOWRIMO, and I have to take some vacation days to make this work, but I will do my best to  make it work.  I doubt I can wrap up editing in 6 weeks and my new novel is percolating in my head, but we’ll see.

FYI, November will make one year I’ve been trying to edit Commoner Days.  We shall see where this lands me. I’m smarter now, and even last night, I can feel my writing has improved in one week.

I owe a debt to the following authors, who’s writing is making mine better:

• Jeannie Ruesch
• Michele Bekemeyer
• Jennifer Hudock

I highly recommend their work, especially if you like novels with steamy romance - apparently, it had to be  handled properly for me to enjoy it!  “Trapping a Duchess” is especially HOT.

I’m buried in work this month, but I’ll be doing my best to keep the writing coming. Namaste!

For Writers (Tips, Tuts & Encouragement)

• Procrastinating Writer’s Blog
• CLG Entertainment
• The Creative Penn
• LJ Sellers (a writer with lots of good tips)
• 10 Ways to Become a Better Writer
• What’s a Scene? What’s a Chapter? (Check out Timothy’s entire site, lots of good stuff)
• The Inigo Montoya Guide to 27 Commonly Misused Words (a few I needed to learn!)

Marketing & Social Media for Authors

•  25 Writers You Should be Following on Twitter
• Best Tweets for Writers

Groups

•  MomWriters

Writing Challenge

• Write a Story a Week

Editors

•  Ask the editor: Do publishers have rules about POV?

Writers

• Jeremy C. Shipp
• Brenda Mantz
• Anne Mazer

Poetry (you never forget your first love)

•  Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Blog

Tools (Simple word processor to reduce distraction while writing and editing)

• Dark Copy
• Jer’s Novel Writer

I’ve decided to do a list of links every month. (Sorry, that means I skipped April, I’ll try to be more diligent!)  Without further ado, here are some links that will help up and coming writers like myself:

Writers

• Writing Her Life
• The Writer’s Washroom
• Amanda Ashby

Magazines

• Fantasy & Science Fiction
• Mom Writer’s Literary Magazine Blog

Fantasy

• Fantasy Debut: debuts new fantasy authors.

Book Marketing

• Savvy Book MarketerTM Guides
• Book Marketing Maven
• Novel Markets

Lehigh Valley

• Lehigh Valley Storytelling Guild
• Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group

Research

• Education portal (free online courses)
• History Fish

I have a lot of tabs open and the only way for me to organize them properly is to post them.  Ya know, so I can review later.  Here they go:

Literary Agents:

• Rants & Ramblings on Life as a Literary Agent: Word Counts
• Nathan Bransford: 10 Commandments for the Happy Writer

Editors:

• Editor Unleashed: How to Build Your Twitter Cred and Write It Forward

Freelance Writing:

• Renegade Writer Blog: Adding Value
• Writer’s Resources Blog

Creative Writing:

• Miss Snark’s First Victiim 

Marketing for Writers:

• Marketing Articles 

Groups:

• WOW! Women On Writing
  
• Writers & Readers of Distinctive Fiction

Writers:

• Jennifer Roach: How to Critique fiction without crushing
• Jenn Hollowell
• The Urban Muse: 5 Excuses that undermine writing success
• Annette Fix

Tools

• WikiMatrix: open source wikis 

Enjoy.

Here we go:

1. Author’s Den: “Where Authors & Readers come together”..hm, lots to explore there…

2. Paradise Greetings is seeking submissions

3. So is Blue Mountain Arts (yes, greeting cards, both of them, c’mon,you know you BUY them, right?)

4. If you like I Should be Writing, here’s Mur Lafferty’s ENTIRE site.  She’s given me tips, hope, encouragement, and helped launched my writing career - and she doesn’t even KNOW it!

5. For writers who do web design, and adore Wordpress like me, Shelly is the best if you need a tut or two, here’s her blog.

And completely unrelated, but for those of us who miss Nathan Fillion on Firefly and adore him in general, a new show is coming out in March:
“Castle”

I no longer have high hopes for tv shows, but I can dream.  (It’s about A GENRE WRITER… who’s not, ya know, a sex addict…)