Classes and Workshops

Gotham Writers' Workshop

Writer U

Pitch University

Rice University Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies

Writer's Digest University



 

Writing Organizations

Romance Writers of America® (RWA®)

West Houston RWA

Northwest Houston RWA

Washington Romance Writers

RWA's The Golden Network

Writers' League of Texas

Mystery Writers of America



Misc. Links

SMITH Magazine/six-word memoirs

Publishers Weekly

Writer's Digest

Poets and Writers

NaNoWriMo

Publishers Marketplace

Association of Authors' Representatives

Agent Query

Writing4Success

Galley Cat

Dear Author

Smart Bitches

Poetry Writing and Analysis Guide



 

 

Blogs 

Kiss and Thrill

Musetracks

Boxing the Octopus

Killer Fiction

Heroes and Heartbreakers

 

Bookshelf

GMC: Goal, Motivation, and Conflict (Debra Dixon)

The Fire in Fiction (Donald Maass)

Writing the Breakout Novel (Donald Maass)

The Emotion Thesaurus (Angela Ackerman)

The First Five Pages (Noah Lukeman)

Self-Editing for Fiction Writers (Renni Browne, David King)

Plot and Structure (James Scott Bell)

Techniques of the Selling Writer (Dwight V. Swain)

The Writer's Journey (Christopher Vogler)

On Writing Romance: How to Craft a Novel That Sells (Leigh Michaels)

Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide (Gotham Writers' Workshop)

Elements of Fiction Writing – Scene & Structure (Jack Bickham)

Novelist's Boot Camp (Todd Stone)

On Writing (Stephen King)

The Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition)

Elements of Fiction Writing – Conflict, Action & Suspense (William Noble)

Give 'em What They Want: The Right Way to Pitch Your Novel to Editors and Agents (Blythe Camenson)

The Fiction Writer's Silent Partner (Martin Roth)

Stein on Writing (Sol Stein)