101 Best Websites for Writers

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Acccording to Writer's Digest...

"On any given topic, for every one Web site you find that’s helpful, you often run across 10 useless URLs that provide no information or, worse, wrong information. Trust us: We know.

For our sixth annual listing of the 101 best sites for writers, we sifted through 300 reader nominations and applied our own stealth research to separate the wheat from the chaff.

We’ve categorized our favorites into 10 sections: creativity, just for fun, genre, general resources, jobs, media resources, niche, self-publishing, networking and writing organizations."


By Category:
http://www.writersdigest.com/101sites/2004_index.asp

A to Z List:
http://www.writersdigest.com/101sites/categorysearch.asp?year_101=2004

A handful of picks: (from the Creativity Topic)
Creativity for Life
URL: www.creativityforlife.com
Find hints, tips and tricks to keep your creativity alive.

Creativity-Portal
URL: www.creativity-portal.com
Log on to find exercises, arts and crafts that can inspire and encourage your creativity.

Daily Celebrations
URL: www.dailycelebrations.com
Filled with quotes and sayings, this site is worth a look when your creativity is suffering.

Daily Writing
URL: www.dailywriting.net
Keep the fun in your creative endeavors by using this site’s tips and suggestions.

 

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Some from the General Resources Category:

Common Errors in English
URL: www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html
Surf through this site to avoid common word usage errors.

Found-Things
URL: www.found-things.com
This site includes resources on medieval life and mythology.

How Stuff Works
URL: www.howstuffworks.com
True to its name, this site teaches you how things work in fields such as science, computers, entertainment and more.

Journalist Express
URL: www.journalistexpress.com
This portal is perfect for journalists, because it provides links to multiple news sources and reference Web sites.

http://www.writersdigest.com/101sites/categorysearch.asp?category=General+Resources&year_101=2004

 

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Yay! NaNoWriMo made the list.

But, where's Lit? We must do something about this next year!

(Not a huge thing though, is it. Only 300 reader nominations, in total. We could double that next year and half the nominations would be for Lit. )

 

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Jobs:

Autobyografy
URL: www.autobyografy.com
This site lists full-time job opportunities for creative types and includes products to enhance that creativity.

Journalism Jobs
URL: www.journalismjobs.com
You can either post or find a job at this large online board focusing mostly on journalistic opportunites.

Just for Fun:

Fun-with-Words
URL: www.fun-with-words.com
Scroll through this site to find information on anagrams, tongue twisters, palindromes and more oddities of the English language.

NaNoWriMo
URL: www.nanowrimo.org
The site for National Novel Writing Month includes information on how to write a 50,000-word novel in one month’s time, plus other writing tips and facts.

Genre:

Charlotte Dillon
URL: www.charlottedillon.com
This romance writer’s community includes more than 600 members in six different e-mail lists.

Media Resources:

Books and Authors
URL: www.booksandauthors.net
Log on to this site for author interviews, book reviews, literary links and contests.

Bookwire
URL: www.bookwire.com
Focusing primarily on the book industry, this portal site can be used to find book titles, bestseller lists and library events.

Funds For Writers
URL: www.fundsforwriters.com
Search this site for grants or contests that can keep your freelance business in the black.

*only a partial list, see the site for many more

Other Categories:

Networking
Niche
Self-Publishing
Writers' organizations

 

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Yay! NaNoWriMo made the list.

But, where's Lit? We must do something about this next year!

(Not a huge thing though, is it. Only 300 reader nominations, in total. We could double that next year and half the nominations would be for Lit. )

We'd be under- Genre? Would that be about right?

**or maybe networking.

 

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Here's a link to there top Market Listing pages:

http://www.writersdigest.com/topics/wdtop100_listing04.asp

http://www.writersdigest.com/hotmarkets_30_2003.asp

 

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Write from Home
URL: www.writefromhome.com
Writing advice and marketing resources can be found for parents who freelance in their spare time.

Go-Publish-Yourself
URL: www.go-publish-yourself.com
To answer your self-publishing questions, log on to this site full of resources and articles on the subject.

Erotica-Readers
URL: www.erotica-readers.com
If you’re a reader or writer of erotica, this site offers helpful writing tips and an e-mail discussion list.

National Writers Union
URL: www.nwu.org
The National Writers Union fights for writers’ rights and acts as a watchdog for publishers or markets that take advantage of writers.

The Writers Guild of America
URL: www.wga.org
The Writers Guild of America represents writers in the motion picture, broadcast, cable and new media industries.

WritersOnlineWorkshops
URL: www.writersonlineworkshops.com
Get feedback from professional writers by signing up for WritersOnlineWorkshops.com, another sister site of Writer’s Digest.

 

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My favourite writer's site I LIVE here.

http://www.bardicweb.com

Or at least it will be when the BETA site is back up.

Check it out!

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