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2012 In My Rear-View Mirror
28 Is a Tough Number
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PageViews Mean (Almost) Nothing
Muse For Hire
Spectacular September
You and I
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Curse of the Time-Starved Writer
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It Happened
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Twitterpated (And the Birdie Says...)
My Muse Tried to Kill Me Today
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Sites Worth Visiting

  • AAR Online
  • Agent Query
  • Blood of the Muse
  • Brandon Sanderson - Official site
  • Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy-Writing Crash Course (Videos)
  • Drying Ink
  • Epic-Fantasy.com
  • Fantasy Cafe
  • Fantasy Literature
  • Free Books Daily
  • Graeme's Fantasy Book Review
  • Grasping for the Wind
  • inkPageant
  • Literary Escapism
  • Preditors and Editors
  • Publetariat
  • Query Shark
  • Savvy Writers & e-Books online
  • Storm the Castle
  • The Passive Voice
  • Writer's Knowledge Base
  • Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy (WD)

Publishers & Outlets

  • Amazon.com
  • Baen Books
  • Barnes and Noble
  • DAW Books
  • Del Rey & Spectra (Suvudu.com)
  • Harper Voyager
  • Orbit
  • Orion Publishing Group
  • Pyr
  • Random House
  • Smashwords.com
  • TOR.com
  • TOR/FORGE (Macmillan)

Honing the Craft

  • 145 Writing Tips (Richard Harland)
  • A Way With Worlds (Steven Savage)
  • Brian Klems’ Questions & Quandaries Blog
  • Creating a Fantasy World (Sara Douglass)
  • Free Novel Writing Help and Advice
  • Grammar basics
  • Grammar Girl
  • Hatrack River Writers Workshop (OSC Network)
  • How to Write a Fantasy Novel
  • Just About Write (Nann Dunne)
  • Marta Stephens Self-Editing Tips
  • Purdue Online Writing Lab
  • Stack Exchange Writers Q&A
  • Writing Fiction (Crawford Kilian)
  • Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy (Jeffrey A. Carver)

Research

  • ARMA - What Did Historical Swords Weigh?
  • Gode Cookery
  • Internet History Sourcebooks Project
  • Medieval Demographics
  • Medieval Occupations (Shawn Vincent)
  • Medieval Studies for the Nonspecialist
  • Stefan's Florilegium Archive
  • The History of Costume (By Braun & Schneider)
  • The WWW Virtual Library History Index - Medieval Europe

Fun Stuff

  • Akinator, the Web Genius
  • GoToQuiz Fantasy cliche-o-meter - Hero
  • GoToQuiz Fantasy cliche-o-meter - Villain
  • Hacker Factor Gender Guesser
  • I Write Like...
  • The Writer's Diet

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