Great Writing Resources, Tips, Twitters, and Inspirations

2009 Descriptive Writing Contest 

2009 Descriptive Writing Contest

This contest for writers exercises creative imagination by asking you to write descriptions for each of the photos or paintings below. This contest is the creation of Linda Jo Martin of Perspectives on Writing and is not affiliated with Squidoo in...

Writing inspiration 

Hiking My Way to a Novel

On September 25th, 2000, I completed a six-month journey from one end of the Appalachian Trail to the other, a 2,200-mile walk from Georgia to Maine otherwise known as a thru-hike. Along the way, I embarked on another type of journey, a creative adve...

Writing Prompts to get You Writing Again!

It's called writer's block. Your mind goes blank. There's nothing worse for a writer when it happens. What can you do? There are a lot of tricks you can employ. Take a break, do something unrelated to writing, or activate your mind by reading someth...

A Goldmine of Journal Writing Prompts

Whether you're into journal writing, personal blog writing, family history writing or creative writing there will come a day when you find yourself staring at a blank page stumped by the dreaded writers block. When this happens with my journal writing...

The Write Prompts

What is a writing prompt? It is a word, picture, phrase, quote or set of directions to help you kick start your writing for those days when you just can't get anything to percolate. In this lens you will find a few of the above options to help yo...

How I Write: My Methods of Writing and Idea Generation

I write quite a lot. One idea leads to the next, and soon I have several pages written. My process leads to a lot of words in a hurry. My process of writing and idea generation is great whether you are writing an article, essay, or a book. I'll exp...

Writing tips for newbie writers and old-timers too 

How to write a Fantasy Novel.

Well, all will be revealed. I'll be disclosing all the hard work, shortcuts and secrets on how I write my fantasy books. You will find general advice on writing, as well as particular emphasis on creating a world of fantasy.

Creative Writing Tips and Tricks

Creative Writing Tips Do you want to be a better writer? Are you ready to be more successful at getting published? At Creative Writing Tips and Tricks I offer my best articles, tips, and ideas to help get you on the path to writing fame and fortune. T...

Creating and Using Your Writer's Notebook

Writers need notebooks. That's where they record all the flash inspirations the Muse sends them. Thoughts are fleeting. If you have a good idea for a writing project, you need a place to write it down. The logical place, the place thousands of writ...

Creating Character Profiles

A character is a person about whom you write. Every work of fiction (book, screenplay, SCA persona, RPG, LARP, MMORPG, video game, etc.) has characters in it. Question is, do you as a writer, really know as much as you should about your characters? T...

Books For Writers

What a writer needs is inspiration, and these books will give it to you. You'll find the power to go on, motivation to meet your goals, ideas for streamlining your writing process, suggestions for bringing your characters to life, exercises to improv...

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How to make an eBook

I've had a lot of success with eBook publishing and I get asked a lot about the mechanics. Here's my version--your mileage may vary!

Screenwriting School

Scene one, action. Start with a big idea, take these tools and get going. You can write a screenplay. Most of all it will take passion and perseverance. Just don't quit.

Useful Resources for the Mystery Writer

An important place in every mystery writer's home should be the library. Writing this kind of genre often requires specific and accurate information, ranging from detective work, forensics, criminal psychology to police procedure. With time, try to...

How to improve your writing: A Basic Technique

Maybe you've finished your latest fictional works, but you just aren't satisfied. If you're looking for a way to really improve the emotional impact at specific moments in your story, this technique, which I will refer to as a snapshot, can completel...

Pen Names

Do you ever wonder why some people choose a pen name? If so, this lens may have the answers that you are looking for. Let me tell you, I am not a published author yet. If and when I do get published, I already have picked a few names out as my pen na...

Here's another writing Twttrlist... 

...following the #writing Twitterwriters!

Best of #writing on Twitter

This is a resource place for all of them who love writing. Authors, writers, editors, publishers, poets, novelists, book lovers.... all will love to be a part of it.

A directory of published authors on Twitter 

Directory of Authors on Twitter

I recently joined Twitter and started searching for interesting people to follow. As an avid reader, I thought it would be great to find some well-known authors and get to know them better. Unfortunately, this wasn't as easy as I thought it would be....

More writing tips from the amazing Squidoo lensmasters! 

Preventing Writer's Block

This lens will take you down the path to achieving that illusive retort that you need to get you plot jump started again. I will take you through some organizational assessments, rethinking your plot, think about your distribution, doing more resear...

How to Publish a Book

This is a lens to help you to publish a book yourself, whether that be a poetry book or any kind of book. It is simple and easy once you learn how to do it. I learned how by simply having the intention to have my poetry published. I hope this lens...

My Writing Protection System

When challenged this week to say what I'd grab first if I had to run out of the house due to a fire, I was hard pressed to decide between my external hard drive and my journals. Then I realized it was all the same issue. I want to protect the things...

10 Commandments of Freelance Writing

These are just a few of the things I've learned over the years and I thought I'd share them with the rest of the world.

The Mechanics of Writing Romance Novels

Glad you asked. This lens is about the mechanics of writing. Yanno, the fun stuff like grammar, word choice, exposition, narrative...Okay, so it's a high school English class, only, I hope, way more fun! Definitely no research papers. Or tests. You m...

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A Possible Cure for Squidoo Writer's Block?

When you get writer's block and run out of words maybe this lens can help you get a fresh start on new lenses - or find new words you can use in your old lenses. Writer's block is a phenomenon involving temporary loss of ability to begin or continue...

Publish Your Newsletter Effectively

Writing has become a different world than even just a few years ago. I am sure there are some kids out there, that just like with the 8-track tape, they have no clue what an old fashioned word processor, or worse a real typewriter, are. But one thin...

Tips for Breaking into the Ghostwriting Industry

This lens is aimed at anyone who has ever wanted to work from home and make a decent wage. If you have a passion for the written word, love to read, create and write, you may be missing out on the chance of a lifetime! For ten years I drove a truck...

Revising and Aditing Your Novel

It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all. Will Shetterly So you wrote a book. Great. What's next? Revisions. Aditing (thank you Nell Dixon for that lovely word...) Submitting.

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Writing for Squidoo

You won't find sales copy on this lens. You won't find HTML codes or funky graphics. What you will find is practical advice on writing content for Squidoo lenses. I'm looking at the screen right now and wondering how I'm going to start this lens. It...

How to create a Squidbook

What is a Squidbook you ask? It is a way of using Squidoo lens to publish a book. I came up with this idea recently and have started creating my first squidbook. You can check it out here My first Squidbook My second squidbook...on Squidoo  ...

Jeff Herring, The Article Writing Guy

To learn all about article writing, I started reading everything I could find that was written by Jeff Herring. Jeff's advice is always clear, easy to understand and concise. Jeff not only teaches how to write articles, he also explains how to marke...

How to use the web to help you as a writer, whether you are an author or author-in-waiting

I'm new to squidoo so bear with me if I have a few teething problems but my aim is to share information that will help fellow writers or people interested in expanding their skills in writing on ways the web can help them. You can find out more abou...

Tips For Writing Middle Grade Novels

If you have any writing skills at all, you are able to write a middle grade novel. It is easy to do and I'll show you how. A middle grade novel is intended to appeal to children ages 8 to 12. If you want to write a middle grade novel, the best way t...

How to Write an eBook

With paperback books costing at least $10 and sometimes much, much more, many readers are turning towards eBooks as a solution. Why pay $10, $20 or $40 on a paperback or hardcover book when you can get an eBook for a couple of bucks? Of course, with...

How to Write an Article

Having just completed a site on how to write an eBook, I decided it would be a good idea to write one on how to write an article in twenty minutes or less. It might sound impossible to you, but I assure you it's possible and I do it every single day...

Article Writing and Promotion

Of all the internet marketing techniques I've used to market my business online, nothing has been more effective than article writing and promotion. Articles have allowed me to brand myself as an expert, build valuable backlinks to my websites, drive...

The writing life 

The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art

    Writing is a form of art. Many people would like to think that as long as you know grammar and you recognize the parts of speech, you'd have all the tools you need to become a good writer. But behind the words that writing uses as...

wannabe a writer?

wannabe a writer? by Jane Wenham-Jones is one of the best books anyone has ever given me. So, whether you are a WAHM (Work at Home Mum) or Dad, part or full time writer, if you want to learn about writing and getting published AND laugh at the same t...

How To Jump-Start Your Writing

Maybe you're just starting out with your writing career, but you don't want it to take years to get off the ground. Maybe you used to write, but life got in the way, and now you want to start back. Or maybe you are a writer, but your career has stall...

Top 10 Reasons to Become a Writer

These are my top ten reasons for becoming a writer. Perhaps you can identify with one or more of these reasons why writing could be a good profession for you. I will warn you in advance -- I tossed a bit of what I consider humor into this list, alon...

NaNoWriMo 

NaNoWriMo Notations

This is a guide to finding news, hints, tips and suggestions for NaNoWriMo inspiration and success. NaNoWriMo = National Novel Writing Month (every November!) During NaNoWriMo thousands of writers and aspiring writers get together to write their nov...

EelKat's Lensography: The NaNoWriMo Edition

Veteran NaNoer tells you everything you need to know to survive the madness of the annual National Novel Writing Month 50,000 words in 30 days contest.

Nanowrimo

So you must be asking what Nanowrimo is. It is National Novel Writing Month. In the month of November all of the world, people whom are interested in writing novels join in and try to write 50,000 words or more before November 30th. This year is my f...

Keystone's NaNoWriMo Experience

The image at the left might catch some of you by surprise but, it is a heavy run on the two sites that have captured most of my attention for the past few months. A few short months ago, while entangled in the mass hysteria that is my month of writi...

Get Ready For NaNoWriMo

National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo, encourages ordinary people to write a novel during the month of November. The novel must be at least 50,000 words in length, which is short by most novel writing standards. This feat can be accomplished by wri...

My novels and blogs 

Linda Jo Martin

Linda Jo Martin, author of The Scribe of Irohila, The Seagull Rebellion, The Alyssa Project, and other novels, lives in Northern California in the Klamath National Forest.

My articles on Gather 

Gather.Com - Articles, Groups, and Friends

Gather.Com is a friendly writing site where you can get feedback on your articles and express your concerns about life. I've been a member of Gather.Com since December 1, 2006, and have posted dozens of articles there. I find that the readers often...