Websites for Writers

Stephen King’s article Everything You Need to Know about Writing Successfully in Ten Minutes is a great read. Full of excellent advice. But I wanted to remove two sentences. Stephen said: Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. While I agree…

I read Call My Agent all the time. It’s clever, witty, entertaining and full of useful information. Can’t ask for more than that! Some of the information might be obvious to more experienced writers – but then again how easy is it to forget or overlook the obvious. I regularly learn something I never knew…

This is a site I found particularly useful in the early stages of my writing when I wanted to get a physical feel for word counts. I wanted to know what 85,000 words looked and felt like. I wanted to know how many words were in specific titles like Tamar by Mal Peet. You can…