The Trendsetter

The Internet makes writing seem much easier these days. Blogging about your hobbies or interests becomes one of the must do type of activities for bloggers. Writing is one of them. Everyone has their own blog to express their interests, business and experiences in getting into networking. It is an exciting activity nevertheless. I enjoy writing for my blog as much as I enjoy reading other’s writing on their sites.

While looking for a websites for ideas and inspiration for my writing, I found several that have encouraged me to keep the writing momentum going. I would like to share them with you.

1. Writer’s Break - For writers. Articles on fiction, nonfiction, freelance writing, author interviews. This site has many how to articles for writing fiction and nonfiction. Jen Minar is the managing editor and a freelance writer based in Washington D.C. The articles written in this site are really helpful for a writer like me and I hope it will help you too.

2. Quotable Online – if you’re looking for inspiring quotes for your writing, this site has tremendous content in their database. It is over 25,000 quotes! I like the writing quotes and it give me all the motivation I need to inspire me to write.

3. Reader’s Digest – This is one of my favorite magazines to read whenever I have the time. Their site has archived many articles to help you get ideas for your writing.

4. Writer’s Digest Blogs - Writer’s Digest provides blogs on their site. Check it out. There is a lot of information available – especially from the editor’s blog. I always read their blogs when I need to find some info about getting publish. They also update the contest page frequently.

5. Fiction Writing - This site has a lot of advice on writing fiction and writing in general. I find the content to be very informative and I hope it will help you too.

Writing can be very daunting at times. It is best to find and read other sites to refresh your ideas and then get back to your writing. There are so many resources on the net and the five sites on my today list is only a fraction of it.

Happy writing!

Writing definitely becomes much easier to perform if you have several resources available for assistance. I always turn to sites on the net when I am looking for information regarding my creative nonfiction writing. As I have dwelled mostly on writing the memoir in this week posts, I share here with you five sites that I have found to be very helpful in writing creative nonfiction.

These sites cater mostly for those who interested to write creative nonfiction like a memoir, essay or autobiography as well as writing fiction.

1. www.creativenonfiction.org– The journal devoted exclusively to the creative nonfiction genre. I haven’t subscribed to this journal yet, but I have read two of the founder’s books about writing: The Art of Creative Nonfiction: Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality
and Creative Nonfiction.

2. www.kporterfield.com - Lives Your Creative Vision. I find this site fascinating because there are so many articles written by this established author about tips in getting your writing done.

3. www.capturingmemories.com/tips-s.html - Helping you capture the memories of a lifetime. This site has a list of writing tips for the memoirist. As a beginning memoirist, I’ve found it to be very helpful.

4. www.memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/ – Record the stories of your life by Jerry Waxler. Jerry’s blog about writing is an inspiration to many beginning writers like me and he also has many links to other writing sites.

5. www.teacher.scholastic.com/writeit/memoir/ - Find your voice. Develop your craft. Publish your work. Scholastic, the largest publisher and distributor for children’s books, has this site dedicated to the young writer. It is very impressive that at such a young age, children and young adults are already on their way to establishing themselves as authors. This site provides an insight about what teenager’s like to write about.

Happy writing and have a great weekend. I will see you Monday.