What are some of the writing website you hang around at to learn the craft of creating stories or writing non-fiction?
Favorite Sites
Here are my favorite sites which I haunt on a daily or almost daily basis:
I am still a newbie at writing fiction and so I look for websites that have practical information and places that have a sense of writing community. Because writing is a lonely business.
First Page analyses
There are some wonderful first-page analyses happening at Writer Unboxed, Kill Zone, and Fiction University. Writer Unboxed has started All the King's Editors recently. I really appreciated David Corbett's column just this week. It helps me to look at my own skill in sentence and paragraph formation, to help me figure out focus.
And isn't that one of a new writer's biggest nemesis? Bringing the story into focus?
As I work with my story, now in its 5th draft, I am combing through my words and trying to sort out themes and subtexts through the use of particular words.
Not only do I want to use a character's point-of-view to describe setting but I also want to use words that will set the atmosphere for the reader, when the character might yet be unaware of the danger coming toward her.
What are some of your favorite writing websites?