Writers' Resources

  Newnovelist   is based on tuition used in England’s leading university creative writing course, is simple to install, fun to use, has been enjoyed by over 50,000 people in 25 countries - and is supported by an established company, that provides support as and when you need it "The Magic of Newnovelist is that it doesn't feel as if you're writing a book"   Am I more likely to complete my novel if I use Newnovelist ? Put simply - yes! Many people who set out to write a novel do not plan the...Read Full Story

In a recent (online for about twenty hours old at the time of this being published) article in Wired Magazine, Paul Boutin urges people to stop blogging . Why? He posits that blogging has passed through the trend phase and that it is now dominated by traditional media outlets in vague electronic disguises. The Huffington Post, the New York Times, even Fox News. These outlets have resources, they have professional writers, and most importantly, they have money. And Boutin makes a good point...Read Full Story

To those who haven’t done both, writing for the web might seem very similar to writing for print, but the two are very different. Print media is largely governed by its finite space. Stories have to be not only a certain length, but also a certain size so that they may be squeezed into what is affectionately known as the “ news hole .” Online content, of course, does not suffer from this, as space is limited merely to the size of the server, and where text is concerned, that limit approaches...Read Full Story

Hi Friends, I have a request this time, looking for some assistance. As the writers amongst you know, the publishers slush-pile is almost impossible to scale. I know, I've been knocking on publishers doors so to speak for some time now, to no avail. Grrr! Recently however, Harper Collins started a website called Authonomy, a sort of social network come slush-pile. Loosely, People sign up to Authonomy, read authors work, leave comments etc and at the end of the month the five novels most read...Read Full Story

Recently the John McCain campaign has had trouble with rights holders issuing DMCA takedown notices to YouTube for bits of songs or newscasts used in McCain advertisements on the service. The McCain campaign wrote a letter to several people at YouTube (and parent company, Google) asking them to please evaluate these claims before taking the notices down. Today, YouTube’s Zahavah Levine responded with a multi-point answer. One of Levine’s points was that the DMCA places the burden of policing...Read Full Story