Writer’s Tips

Hello friends, and happy Friday! Anyone writing, editing, learning, or curling up with a good book this weekend? If you are looking to spend time educating yourself on all things literary this weekend, look no further.  Today, I wanted to share some tried and true writer’s resources and tips in the great world of the ‘webosphere’. They have supported me in my literary endeavors. Hopefully you will find them equally useful.

My primary educational resource is a monthly membership website, Compel Training, and it has been invaluable in guiding me. From platform building, to editing, to agent querying tips, to self-publishing tips the weekly trainings, forums, and sense of community this website provides have been key in my development as a writer. I have really honed in on my craft thanks to the writing education this platform has gifted me.

Now, if you are interested in resources, but don’t want to fork out the $30 per month membership fee, below are some free websites:

1. This website, writer’s digest, contains a wealth of information, including agents to query, suggestions for getting published, a tip of the day, building your platform and more.  A literary agent I queried put me onto this site, and quite honestly it is a gold mine. They post new literary agent alerts, which is a wonderful opportunity to contact new agents seeking out authors to represent.
2. Another site, Association of Authors Representatives Inc. is where I find agents to query. It is a professional organization of over 350 agents. The opportunities here are endless.
3. Below are several writers’ blogs I stumbled onto or fellow writers shared with me:
   • Janice Hardy’s Fiction University  I haven’t read her books yet, but I have heard they are useful if you are seeking a book resource: “Plotting Your Novel” and “Revising Your Novel”.
   • Chris Fox Writes For self-publishing authors he shares a wealth of information on marketing your books.
   • Holly Lisle: read with hunger,write with joy,live with passion She hosts a weekly podcast providing tons of writing tips.
   • K.M. Weiland I love the reason she gives for why she writes: Stories are like breathing. Life without a story in my head is one-dimensional, stagnant, vapid. I love the life God has given me, but I think I love it better because I’m able to live out so many other lives on the page. I’m more content to be who I am because I’m not trapped in that identity. When I sit down at my computer and put my fingers on the keys, I can be anyone or anything, at any time in history. I write because it’s freedom.
   • Nathan Bransford’s blog This blog provides excellent resources for query letters, book proposals, self publishing, finding a literary agent and more. It is a favorite of mine.

These are just a few web-based resources, and there are many others, especially in the bookspace. Did you find this information useful? Do you have any recommendations for writers’ resources? Please share, I would love to know.

Thanks for stopping by my blog corner. See you in a couple of weeks. Same bat time, same bat place.