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Category Archive for ‘Advice’

Put Things Off

The brainchild of Todoodlist and WordPrezzie creator, Nick Cernis: “Put Things Off (PTO) helps freelancers, entrepreneurs and busy people work smarter, play harder and live the lives they love. PTO talks about productivity, freelancing, business, software, travel and much more.”

Creative Writing Corner

The blog of Blair Hurley, short story writer and advice-giver on all things creative writing: “Creative Writing Corner has grown into a site for all aspects of the writing life, from writing exercises, to inspirational photos and poems, to thoughts on editing, the writing process, getting published, books, and much more.”

Tumblemoose Writing Services

Inspiring Writers Every Day reads the tag line. Inspirational and thoughtful writing tips delivered in a humorous and conversational style.

Daily Writing Tips

A blog that offers practical writing advice and daily updates to help you with punctuation, grammar or the correct usage of words.

Nathan Bransford

Nathan Bransford is a literary agent working for Curtis Brown in New York. He provides useful information about the publishing industry and blogs about his work a s literary agent: “I’m particularly interested in literary fiction, mysteries and suspense, historical fiction, narrative nonfiction, business, history, sports, politics, current events, young adult fiction, science fiction and [...]

Writer Dad

Blog written and edited by Sean Platt, a father, copywriter and online entrepreneur. Writer Dad focuses on “family and fatherhood with well written tales about those things that orbit our lives, alongside helpful hints and strategies to render our children into remarkable writers so that they may help us all write our best future.”

Men With Pens

The ever-popular Men With Pens is a blog that offers, “smokin’ designs, rockin’ content and killer business sense”. They’ve also written ebooks on freelance writing and fiction writing, and have a lage community of regular readers.

Novelr

An internet fiction blog run by writer, Eli James: “Novelr is a blog about writing and presenting fiction on the Internet. It deals with the way the Internet is changing the way we read – whether it is books we’re dealing with or not. What is the future of the book? Can blooks make a [...]

Publishing Talk

Publishing Talk started in April 2007 as the company blog for Reed Media, a social media consultancy. What started as a way of communicating tips, trends and issues to help publishing clients get to grips with new online marketing methods has become a resource for both authors and publishers.

Terry Heath

A blog about all things creative writing from Terry Heath, writer and MFA candidate in creative writing.

Self-Publishing Review

The Self-Publishing Review is an online magazine devoted to self-publishing: book reviews, publisher reviews, interviews, news, opinion, and how tos for the self-publisher.

BBC writersroom

You can’t really go wong with this site from the BBC. It’s packed full of ideas and tutorials, and provides valuable information for UK-based authors in particular. It also runs regular competitions and encourages you to send your manuscript. A quality, reliable source.

Write for Your Life

Write for Your Life offers practical advice and productivity tips for writers of all shapes and sizes: novelists, bloggers, poets and journalists. Anyone who works with words. It’s edited by Iain Broome, the same chap who edits this very site, Websites for writers.