WRITING RESOURCES

MY FAVORITE WRITING BOOKS:

Writing Down the Bones (Natalie Goldberg)

No Plot, No Problem! (Chris Baty)

Wild Mind (Natalie Goldberg)

Thunder and Lightning (Natalie Goldberg)

Bird by Bird (Anne Lamott)-- great writing advice and FUNNY!

Walking on Alligators: A Book of Meditations for Writers (Susan Shaughnessy)

The Artist's Way (Julia Cameron)

The Vein of Gold (Julia Cameron)

How to Sell Every Magazine Article You Write (Lisa Collier Cool)

Writing from the Heart: Tapping the Power of Your Inner Voice (Nancy Slonim Aronie)

Big Purple Mommy: Nurturing Our Creative Work, Our Children and Ourselves (Coleen Hubbard)

Unstuck (Jane Anne Staw, PhD) the best book I've read on writer's block

HELPFUL WRITING WEBSITES:

The Loft-- a Minneapolis organization dedicated to literature and writers. They offer classes, readings, grants, and lots of other cool stuff.

SASE The Write Place-- we are lucky enough in the Twin Cities to have two major literary/writing organizations.

Momwriters-- great resource for moms who write. Their fabulous yahoo group can be found here.

WriterNetwork.com-- online writing community and publishing resource.

NaNoWriMo-- website for National Novel Writing Month, which encourages writer to tackle a 50,000 word novel during the month of November.

Writer's Digest-- popular mag, helpful website.

Over 100 Writing Articles-- many articles here about various aspects of writing. A little heavy on the romance genre, but there is plenty of other stuff too.]

The Writers Diner-- a fun site to check out, creatively set-up to resemble a diner!

The Writer Mag-- a good resource for writers.

WriteLink-- creative writing resource, paying markets.

WritingFix-- get your writing fix here, with writing prompts and topics.