{"id":97,"date":"2015-11-26T12:04:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T17:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/?page_id=97"},"modified":"2017-09-04T11:41:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T15:41:01","slug":"writer-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/?page_id=97","title":{"rendered":"Writer Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/quill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-128 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/quill-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"quill\" width=\"362\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/quill-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/quill-676x451.jpg 676w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/quill.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve amassed a\u00a0 lot of writerly links over the past few years. Some are helpful. Some are just distractions. Some days you&#8217;ll want the former. Some days you&#8217;ll need the latter. I intend to update this collection occasionally, so check back.<\/p>\n<h4>Writer&#8217;s Essential Library (You should own these)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2sqxkql\">Ernest Hemingway On Writing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2sPBUeS\">On Writing<\/a>, Stephen King<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2spLMie\">Being Indie<\/a>, Eeva Lancaster<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2r7deNE\">Elements of Style 2017<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2sadEGH\">The Chambers Dictionary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2sgejqS\">The Art of War for Writers<\/a>, James Scott Bell<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2sgrbxg\">Zen in the Art of Writing<\/a>, Ray Bradbury<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2re9SMX\">Writing Down the Bones<\/a>, Natalie Goldberg<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2rixXxm\">Bird by Bird<\/a>, Anne Lamott<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2vZ8uLZ\">The Rhetoric of Fiction<\/a>, Wayne C. Booth<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2iUxNNT\">The Well-tempered Sentence<\/a>, Karen Elizabeth Gordon<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2iWWj0U\">Write Right!<\/a>, Jan Venolia<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2x4HMGy\">Writing Fiction<\/a>, Janet Burroway<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Keep Writing&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersdigest.com\/prompts\">Writing prompts from Writer&#8217;s Digest<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pw.org\/writing-prompts-exercises\">Prompts and exercises from P&amp;W<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/learning.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/13\/500-prompts-for-narrative-and-personal-writing\/?_r=0\">500 prompts from the NY Times<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/141\/index.html\">The Elements of Style<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>General writing assistance<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pw.org\/toolsforwriters\">Poets &amp; Writers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/terrywhalin.blogspot.com\/\">The Writing Life<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/home\/index.html\">Publisher&#8217;s Weekly<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Publishing, editing, etc.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bubblecow.com\/\">BubbleCow<\/a>: Professional book editing<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecreativepenn.com\/\">The Creative Penn<\/a>: Contains a ton of information about publishing and links to many other resources.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/duotrope.com\/\">Duotrope<\/a>: Spend less time submitting so you can focus on writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Author\/Book sites<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independentauthornetwork.com\/\">Independent Author Network<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.authorsguild.org\/\">Authors Guild<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/askdavid.com\/\">askDavid<\/a>: Book reviews and book promotion<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beingauthor.com\/\">Being Author<\/a>: Book reviews, marketing, and promotion<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/\">GoodReads<\/a>: You should probably create an author page<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Awards\/Reviews<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/readersfavorite.com\/\">Readers&#8217; Favorite<\/a>: Book reviews and awards<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/newappleliterary.com\/Home.html\">New Apple Literary Services<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chantireviews.com\/\">Chanticleer Book Reviews<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theusreview.com\/\">The US Review of Books<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinebookclub.org\/\">Online Book Club<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebookawards.com\/index.php\">Indie Book Awards<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalbookawards.com\/home.html\">International Book Awards<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Book\/Literary sites<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/litreactor.com\/\">Litreactor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/tendency\">McSweeney&#8217;s Internet Tendency<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/pages\/books\/index.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Books<\/a>: The New York Times<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnivoracious.com\/\">Omnivoracious<\/a>: The Amazon Book Review<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/\">Book Slut<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/literature.alltop.com\/\">Alltop<\/a>: Top literature news<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=durk13\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve amassed a\u00a0 lot of writerly links over the past few years. Some are helpful. Some are just distractions. Some days you&#8217;ll want the former. Some days you&#8217;ll need the latter. I intend to update this collection occasionally, so check back. Writer&#8217;s Essential Library (You should own these) Ernest Hemingway On Writing On Writing, Stephen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}