My Favorite Writerly Resources
I’ll continue to add to this list of resources, and find it a permanent home on the site:
Workshops and Conferences
Regional conferences – San Francisco North and East Bay
Big Sur Writing Workshop, Andrea Brown Literary Agency
Blogs
KidLit.com – Mary Kole
Podcasts
Inside the New York Times Book Review
New Yorker Fiction
The Narrative Breakdown – Cheryl Klein and James Monohan
Software
Websites
SCFWA Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions – Patricia C. Wrede
Books
The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron
Writing the Breakout Novel, by Donald Maas
Reading Like a Writer, by Francine Prose
The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, by Christopher Vogler
Videos
Martha Alderson’s 27-step plot tutorial on plot and structure
For Fun and Inspiration
On Writing, by Stephen King
Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
Favorite Local Bookstores