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Jennifer Phillips, Children's Author
Web Articles About Being a Writer and Publishing
- Writing Careers: The Business Behind Becoming an Author
- 3 Things You Need to Become an Author
- Author Rick Riordan blog challenging the perception authors need connections
- Picture book author/illustrator Arree Chung shares his failure resume
- Pub Rants blog by Nelson Literary Agency
- Some writers swear by time blocking as a method to stay productive. What do you think?
- Children's authors reading bad reviews of their books
Web Resources About Writing and Story Development
- Need some story inspiration? How about a list of 500 things that kids like?
- Need more story inspiration? How about a list of things kids don’t like?
- 7 Tips for Writing About Places You’ve Never Been
- Using a Revision Grid to Break Down a Story
- List of 350 Character Traits
- Web tool to generate random character motives for story inspiration
- Random Word Generator site to spark ideas (has multiple cool types of generators)
- NY Times Picture Prompts for writing and literacy
- Using the SCAMPER technique to improve writing
- Worksheets for Writers (multiple tools collected by author Jamie Gold)
- Short article - what every story must have
Web Resources about Queries and Pitches
In Western Washington
Bellingham Writers Group
Epic Group Writers, Edmonds
Hugo House
Pacific Northwest Writers Association
Red Wheelbarrow Writers, Bellingham
Shack Art Center (includes writing classes in its roster)
Skagit Valley Writers League
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Western Washington Chapter
Nationally
Association of Writers & Writing Programs
Biographers’ International Organization
Institute for Children’s Literature
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators