Writing Resources

THE WRITING PART OF IT...

Technique

• Grammar and Style Notes (the place to start...:-)
• Strunk's 1918 Elements of Style
• Roget's Thesaurus
• A Reader's Request (Stephen Jarjoura)
• Names for Sexy Legs - alternative names for body parts, in English and many other languages
• Thoughts on Character (Serdar Yegulalp)
• Twain's Rules of Writing
• Standard Deviations in Writing (Roger Allen)
• Storytelling (Bill Johnson) - Essays on the art of storytelling, from a filmwriter's perspective

  Genre

• On Writing Erotica (John McMullen)
• A Query Into Writing Erotica (Charisse van der Lyn)
• Katy Terrega's Resources for Writers of Porn and Erotica
• The Slot (Bill Walsh) - newspaper writing/copyediting/more
• Science Fiction Writing Tips

  Process

• So You Want to Be a Writer?
• Writing Past Dark: On Envy and Fame (Bonnie Friedman)
• Strange Highways (Dean Koontz)
• SALON Interview with Nicholson Baker (author of the erotic novel "Vox")
• A Clarion West Diary (E. Jay O'Connell & Michael Belfiore) - sf/f/h writing conference
• Mary Anne's Clarion West Journal

  Misc

• Books on Writing - An Annotated List
• Writers on Writing - a selection of quotes

  THE BUSINESS PART OF IT...

• The Freeland Writing FAQ
• Publishing on the Web - Copyright
• 10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained (Brad Templeton)
• Electronic Publishing: Fiction and Fact (ASJA Contracts Committee)
• Your First Contract
• The Contract of the Future
• A Little Tax Advice for Writers
• Death, Taxes and the Writer (Elisabeth Waters)
• The Part Time Writer (Vivan Unger)

  THE PUBLISHING PART OF IT...

• How to Publish Your Sex Stories
• Erotica/Porn Writers' FAQ
• Letter to a Nervous Young Porn Writer
• How to Publish Your Novel (Joel Rosenberg)
• 7 Ways to Get your Novel to a SF/F Editor
• The Saga of Myrtle the Manuscript (Tappan King)
• Road to Publishing (Margaret Atwood)
• On Simultaneous Submissions
• A Quick Glance at Self-Publishing
• How to Edit An Anthology (Gary Bowen)
• So You Want to Start a Magazine (Kent Brewster)
• Keeping Your Book Alive: A Writer's Survival Guide (Suzette Haden Elgin)

  THE MARKETS

• Bodies of Water: Call for Subs
• Literary Markets
• SF Online Markets
• Porn/Erotica Writers' Resource List
• Internet Directory of Literary Agents

  THE COMMUNITY

• SFRT on the Web - SF/F/H-focused resources
• Writers on the Net - charges for lessons
• The On-Line Writing Workshop
• The EROS Workshop