Links
Sites for Writers
- 3 Word Wednesday – a weekly writing prompt
- Duotrope Digest – searchable database of publishing markets
- Evil Editor – analyzes query letters from would-be writers and other helpful things
- Forward Motion – a community of writers, provides forums and discussion
- Miss Snark – no longer active, but there’s tons of snarky advice for writers in the archives
- National Novel Writing Month – a challenge to write 50,000 words of a novel in the month of November
- One Minute Writer – provides prompts for one minute writing challenges
- Poets & Writers – excellent resource for writing related articles and advice
- Seventh Sanctum – has multiple writing, character, theme, etc. generators for randomized inspiration
- Write or Die – Dr. Wicked provides punishments for writers who need incentives to keep writing
People Who Rock
- Ani DiFranco – independent musician and all around righteous babe
- An Xiao – photographer, poet, Buddhist, and generally awesome
- C.E. Murphy – author of Urban Shaman and The Queen’s Bastard (and from whom I borrowed layout ideas for my own site)
- Cherie Priest – author of Boneshaker
- Cliff Brooks – horror writer, cat owner, fellow Ani DiFranco lover
- Jackson Pearce – author of the forthcoming As You Wish
- Katy Davis – artist and animator extraordinaire
- Kristin Nelson – a perfectly polite literary agent who rants about publishing
- Lisa Snellings – sculptor of poppets and other darkly brilliant art
- Lise Quintana – fellow writer and aspirant, and all around super star
- Mark Stratton – fellow poet and aspirant
- Neil Gaiman – author of The Sandman graphic novels and American Gods
- Nicholas Kaufmann – author of Walk in Shadows and Jack Haringa Must Die
- Penelope Dullaghan – artist and illustrator
- Seanan McGuire – author of Rosemary and Rue and queen of the zombies. Her evil twin is Mira Grant.
- Wil Wheaton – actor and author of Just a Geek and Dancing Barefoot