MARKETING YOUR WORK: sending out, queries, book proposal guide.

LINKS FOR WRITERS: The Internet provides a plethora of web sites for writers. For the most current ones, go to Google.com, then search "Writing" + ("contests," "publication," "commercial," etc.) to narrow your search. Most sites have links to further resources such as the following lists of lists:

Writing Links & Links for Writers

Writers' Resources on The Web and More

Writer's Digest

Guide to Grammar & Style

Writer's Digest Contests

Start Blogging Online

PRINT (Remember it?) RESOURCES:

There are many good books about writing on the market. The following are especially helpful:

Dorothea Brande. BECOMING A WRITER. New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 1981. Reprint of a 1934 self-help book filled with practical and detailed suggestions on writing.
Rita Mae Brown. STARTING FROM SCRATCH. New York, Bantam, 1988. An interesting, readable, useful, inspiring book with a nuts-and-bolts approach.
Natalie Goldberg. WRITING DOWN THE BONES: Freeing the Writer Within. Boston: Shambhala, 1986. Using Zen techniques, Goldberg teaches writers how to "unlearn" wrong-headed assumptions about composition and tap into their creativity. Unusual and energizing.
Peter Elbow. WRITING WITH POWER. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. Practical techniques for mastering the writing process.
Peter Elbow. WRITING WITHOUT TEACHERS. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. Excellent common sense approach. Very helpful chapters on free writing and setting up and working in writing groups.
Joanna Field. A LIFE OF ONE'S 0". Los Angeles, J.P. Tarcher, Inc., 1981. Originally printed in 1936, this book chronicles a journey of self exploration via diary and journal into awareness and authenticity. Fields is also the author of two other books which deal with creativity: AN EXPERIMENT IN LEISURE and ON NOT BEING ABLE TO PAINT.
Anne Lamott. BIRD BY BIRD: Some Instructions on Writing and Life.
Daniel D. Pearlman and Paula R. Pearlman. GUIDE TO RAPID REVISION. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Educational Publishing, 1982. A quick and easy guide for grammar rules and correct usage. Leaves out the things you don't need to know.
Gabriele Lussar Rico. WRITING THE NATURAL WAY: Using Right Brain Techniques to Release Your Expressive Power. Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher, Inc., 1983. Stresses enhancing creativity and writing confidence by using such techniques as clustering and visualization.
Kimberley Snow. WRITING YOURSELF HOME. Berkeley: Conari, 1994.
Wm. Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White. ELEMENTS OF STYLE. New York: Macmillan, 1979. A lean classic with clear cut rules about style and usage.
Brenda Ueland. IF YOU WANT TO WRITE: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit. Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 1987. First published in 1938, this excellent book by a remarkable woman includes such chapters as "Why You Are Not to Be Discouraged, Annihilated by Rejection Slips," and "Why Women Who do too Much Housework Should Neglect it for their Writing."
William Zinsser. INVENTING THE TRUTH: The Art and Craft of Memoir.
William Zinsser. ON WRITING WELL. New York: Harper & Row, 1980,2004 Informal guide to writing good non-fiction.