Resources!

[healingmirth]

What do you depend on when you write? I'm sure we all do our fair share of googleing, but are there websites (or, gasp! books?) that you go back to again and again for the mechanics of putting a story together?


Just to get the ball rolling:

Grammar Girl - Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Covering the grammar rules and word choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers, Grammar Girl makes complex grammar questions simple with memory tricks to help you recall and apply those troublesome grammar rules.

Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com are my go-to word-checking places, for no reason other than habit - I was subscribed to their Word of the Day list for a long, long time. (Today's word is bumptious.)

little_details - An already-impressive back-catalog of questions answered, and literally thousands of members willing to contribute their diverse expertise and interests to making your story more accurate. A fantastic resource for when you just can't find the answer you need. (I am willing to admit that I don't write anything nearly as ambitious as the things that most of the people there seem to be researching for. It's fascinating to read, anyway.)

Introductions: What kind of writer are you?

[healingmirth]

Introduce yourself, if you wish to! This is not at all a questionnaire to be filled out, just some thoughts to get people started.

What do you write? How long have you been writing it? Are you a write-every-day sort of person? Do you go dormant for months at a time and then churn out an epic? Or go dormant for months and churn out a drabble?

Do you have a type of story that you return to again and again to perfect, or do you branch out to new styles and structures every time you pick up a pen or sit down to the keyboard?

Do you like to spend three paragraphs on the sun setting behind the trees? Do your characters have a passion for discussion or banter? Is everything better with a few mysteries to solve?

Is there an author (pro, amateur, original, fanfic, whatever) whose writing you particularly aspire to?