Notes for ‘Creative Writers and the Web’

- Robin Lynn Pratt
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Fellow-writers,

The websites listed below are just a starting place for writers of just about any genre. If you visit the ‘Writer’s Corner’ on my website – www.robinlynnpratt.com , you can just click these links for faster access.

Good luck!

Robin

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...pssst... what are YOU writing?...

Writer’s Portals - offering writing resources, market listings, forums, etc.

Writer’s Digest - http://www.writersdigest.com/

Poet’s & Writers - http://www.pw.org/

The Writer - http://www.writermag.com/wrt/default.aspx?c=i

Author’s Guild - http://www.authorsguild.org/

Writing World - http://www.writing-world.com/

Research

Magazine submission guideline database

http://www.freelancewriting.com/guidelines/pages/

Literary magazine and zine index, including reviews, news, contests

http://www.newpages.com/

Duotrope’s Digest – submission tracking stats submitted by writers

http://www.duotrope.com/rt.aspx?id=594

Nuts & Bolts of Writer’s Websites

Fiction Factor – various articles on author websites
http://www.fictionfactor.com/website.html

Creating an author's Web site - by Tim Bete http://www.timbete.com/CreateWebsite.html

Building a No-Frills Author Website – by Elliot Feldman
http://www.ehow.com/how_2111370_build-nofrills-author-web-site.html

Evaluating the Quality of Web Info

Johns Hopkins University Library http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/

UC Berkeley Library

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

Writer Scam Alerts

(most online writer’s forums or magazines devote space to scam alerts)

Writing.com

http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/306562

Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers

http://www.sfwa.org/beware/

AuthorsLawyer.com

http://www.authorslawyer.com/litscam.shtml