I’ll continue to add to this list of resources, and find it a permanent home on the site:

Workshops and Conferences

SCBWI Summer Conference

Regional conferences –  San Francisco North and East Bay

Big Sur Writing Workshop, Andrea Brown Literary Agency

Better Books Marin

 

Blogs

R.L. LaFevers, For Writers

KidLit.com – Mary Kole

Nathan Bransford

 

Podcasts

Inside the New York Times Book Review

New Yorker Fiction

The Guardian Children’s Books

The Narrative Breakdown – Cheryl Klein and James Monohan

 

Software

Scrivener

Freedom

 

Websites

SCBWI

Publisher’s Marketplace

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

Laini Taylor’s Blog

Pinterest

 

Favorite Local Bookstores

Copperfield’s Books

Book Passage