Useful Links and Meta-Links for Writers

Although I'm not posting every day, I'm always blogging: looking for new connections and ideas that can help writers. It's the same with all my writing–not all writing is "writing down." For every hour I spend drafting new material, I probably spend two hours on editing, researching, marketing, and taking care of my writing business. But every once in a while I have to put my research together and write down a few things, so today I'm writing down some of my useful links.

Miss Snark

So, Miss Snark, who I mentioned in a previous post, has retired from blogging, but all her old posts are still available, thanks to work by Wyrdsmiths, "a weblog for the Twin Cities area speculative fiction writers' group." They've indexed her work at http://wyrdsmiths.blogspot.com/2007/09/truly-garagantuan-miss-snark-index-post.html. It's a treasure-trove for writers. Work your way through it, or select a topic from one of these:

Advice (General)

Agent Information, Where to Find

Agents and Publishers: Bad Signs and Scams

Agents: What to Ask/Know Before You Sign

Being a Good Client/Client Agent Relationships

Best Foot Forward

Conferences and Talking to Agents

Contracts Agency and Publisher

Credits/Short Stories/Contests/Etc.

Dealing With the Clueless/PODs and Vanity Presses

Dumb Things, Don't Do These

Finish the Book

Firing Your Agent: Why and How

Follow the directions

Misc

Movie Stuff

Non-Fiction

Novels: Definitions etc.

Partials and Fulls

Publishing Economics

Queries

Rejection

Resubmission

Revisions

Rights Questions

Royalties and Getting Paid

Submission, General

Synopses

Waiting for Agent Responses

What an Agent Does

Writing the Book

Midwest Book Review: Writer Resources

In their own words: "Here are a wealth of Web sites offering tips, tricks, and techniques for both established authors as well as aspiring writers earnestly seeking to break into print."

This site, http://www.midwestbookreview.com/bookbiz/writers.htm, has more than 200 internet links to just about anything a writer might want to know about. Caution: Unlike Miss Snark's weblog, the information here is not evaluated, so you're on your own for assessing the worth of each of these sites. But it's a marvelous place to start searching the web.

Plot in Short Stories

If you write short stories, you'll want to read this essay on Plot by the master, Damon Knight:

http://www.theroseandthornezine.com/Article/33Plot.html

It's an excerpt from his book, Creating Short Fiction. After you read this essay, you'll want to own the book: Creating Short Fiction

ISBN 0-312-15094-6

©1985,1986, 1997 by Damon Knight

Plagiarism

Came across this article in my internet travels. A story of plagiarism.

http://www.help4nonprofits.com/Plagiarism/Anatomy.htm

Also, if you are posting on the internet, it links a site which allows you to check if your website has been plagiarized elsewhere on the web.

http://www.copyscape.com/

Well, enough for one post. Watch for more links as I collect them.