Links for Writers:

  1. Bullet  Writers’ Guild of Alberta

  2. Bullet  Canadian Authors’ Association

  3. Bullet  Editors’ Association of Canada

  4. Bullet  Other Voices Magazine

  5. Bullet  On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic


Book News:

  1. Bullet  Stephen King talks about The Stand during this interview

  2. Bullet  From fiction to fact: Atwood’s new book.

  3. Bullet  Breaking News from Quill & Quire

  4. Bullet The White Tiger wins the Man Booker

  5. Bullet What’s hot in Canadian fiction?


Writing Tips:

  1. Bullet How to Create an Author Platform

  2. Bullet Story Prompts to Inspire Your Inner Muse

  3. Bullet More Story Prompts to Inspire Your Inner Muse

  4. Bullet Still More Prompts to Inspire Your Inner Muse

  5. Bullet Scary Prompts to Inspire Your Inner Muse

  6. Bullet The Business of Writing

  7. Bullet  Caffeine Dreams

  8. Bullet  Bad Writing Advice


Other Links:

  1. Bullet  Malawi Girls on the Move (APU)

  2. Bullet  Silent River Kung Fu

  3. Bullet  Greenpeace

  4. Bullet  World Society for the Protection of Animals

  5. Bullet  Rotary Run for Life

  6. Bullet  World Wildlife Fund of Canada

  7. Bullet Boreal Songbird Initiative

  8. Bullet The Council of Canadians

 

As writers, we can never know everything. Instead we must accept the council of others. We must be fully cognizant of where to seek advice, information and inspiration.


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Resources for Writers:

Here are some books I have found helpful and inspiring:


  1. Bullet The Write Brain Workbook by Bonnie Neubauer

  2. Bullet Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir by Natalie Goldberg

  3. Bullet On Writing by Stephen King

  4. Bullet Spunk & Bite by Arthur Plotnik

  5. Bullet The Freelance Writer’s Bible by David Trottier

  6. Bullet The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers by Betsy Lerner

  7. Bullet The Freelance Writer’s Bible by David Trottier

  8. Bullet On Writing Well by William Zinsser

  9. Bullet The Elements of Editing: A Modern Guide for Editors and Journalists by Arthur Plotnik

  10. Bullet The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White

  11. Bullet Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing by Margaret Atwood

  12. Bullet Virginia Woolf’s Nose: Essays on Biography by Hermione Lee


Still more books for writers:

  1. Bullet Council of Literary Magazines and Presses: Literary Press and Magazine Directory. Soft Skull Press

  2. Bullet The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way by Bill Bryson

  3. Bullet A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel

  4. Bullet The Stories of English by David Crystal

  5. Bullet Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss

  6. Bullet Editing Canadian English: The Essential Canadian Guide prepared for the Editors’ Association of Canada


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