Fun and Interesting Websites for Writers

Do you love to write and need some extra help getting inspired. I have a found some excellent resources on line that will help you with your writing and get you inspired.

Online-stopwatch.com is a great website to get you motivated. This is a free online countdown clock to get motivated. The clock starts and you only have a set amount of time to write a story.

Wildpoetryforum.com is a great online community of writers and poets that are striving to improve their writing skills and to share their creative thoughts with each other.

At Moontowncafe you can upload great poety on YouTube. It is a social networker and a publishing site.

At writersbbs.com there are many writers who post on here daily. It is also a great side for students as well.

Do you belong to a writers group? Rallystorm.com is an online site where you can create your own forum. It is fairly easy to set up and could be a great tool for high school students who would like to showcase their work.

Want to paid to write. Check out these sites. Mediajobmarket.com is said to be one of the most powerful media job search engines on the internet. They have hundreds of postings for jobs as well as articles on job hunting for the writing industry. Another site to research is ed2010.com for job listings and duotrope.com is a database of over 2,300 markets of short fiction, poetry and novels. Helium.com is also a great site to research for freelance gigs.

Need writing tips. Plotwhisphere.blogspot.com is a great site for plot tips for writers.

Editorunleashed.com offers freelance writers help with writing tips and sharing interviews with high profile authors. Maria Schneider is the editor and writer for this site.

Want help from an agent? Janet Reid looks at queries and posts lots of examples of what writers are doing right and wrong. Send her a query letter at queryshark.blogspot.com for a critique. Good luck.

Kristin Nelson is an agent who is based in Denver, Colorado. Her website pubrants-blogspot.com is a must read for those getting started in the publising industry.

Have you ever wanted to write a screenplay? Moviebytes.com and scriptwritersnetwork.org and are great sites for screenwriting contests and script formatting as well as some free newsletters.

There are so many great sites on the Internet for writers. Have fun writing and please let me know what you think of these sites and if they have been beneficial to you as a writer.A list of some great websites for writers