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Good overview of how we as fiction writers could apply 'write what you know'. Practical. 

A panel of publishers, writers and journalists at the Emerging Writers' Festival shared their tips on getting paid for your writing.

Take a story by a writer you really, really admire - preferably a short short story that won't take for ever to reproduce. Analyze it in minute detail: from word choice to sentence length. Now, choose a different setting and different characters with different dreams from that of the originals, and write a copycat story, following the exact structure and tone of the original.

I've belonged to this for more than ten years. It is a huge community of people who write, at all levels of experience. Mostly Americans, but many from all around the English-speaking world. There is a free course you can do to see if you like it, before paying to join. If you join, there are many interest groups, self-moderated. I belong to one focusing on literary short story writing, invitation only, full at the moment and not taking members. There are groups writing every kind of genre you can think of. The standard varies hugely from group to group, and from course to course.

For Mac, iPad & iPhone users to write without distractions. WriteRoom is a full screen writing environment.

A fabulous post by YA author Libba Bray on her writing (or not) process. Hilarious but true. Recommended reading.

I spent ages one day checking the dates on my spices and tossing out the ones that were old. At the end of that time I had no writing and lots of empty spice bottles - in alphabetical order. I loved this article. I'm sticking to short stories. Novels sound even more horrifying to try to produce.

Great software for drafting - much easier to use than MS Word for longer pieces of writing. It's worth downloading the trial and setting aside some time to play with the tutorial.

Yes it is, though it's only about $40. Have a play.

Writing software designed especially for writers. Costs around $40 (but do a search for vouchers and you may get a discount).

A whole lot of stuff, tools, advice, articles and comments - some of which are quite useful or get you thinking at least.

Handy post on a few places to get online critiques, info and support

This is an example of one of the intensive writing events I was talking about. NaNoWriMo (National Novel-Writing Month) is another.

new, unique collection of interviews with some of the most significant Tribal Elders of Australian publishing and writing.

This is the home site for AWM. Each Wednesday night they invite people to write for an hour together, via Facebook. I think you don't need to be a member to join in.

I keep copies of all my writing on this Cloud site.

I use Dropbox for pictures and Google Drive for text, in essence. The benefit of Google Drivein my opinion is that it ties in (almost) seamlessly with Google's online word processing tools.

Agreed. Simple to use and really terrific for online collaboration. Slightly different concept as the files aren't natively in Word or Excel or whatever, but still very handy.

Site listing huge number of writing opportunities. Used to be free but recently became necessary to pay to join. Weighted towards the US, but does list Australian opportunities, such as anthologies. Basically world wide publishing opportunities.

Interesting if you like keeping an eye out for what is happening in the international writing world.

Interesting....... 'All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.' George Orwell, with his breezy advocacy of a very British 'common sense', often seems as much crackpot as savant.

American markets for children's magazines

This is how I feel today. :D

The name says it all - a simple app for taking notes or writing on your mobile device, but in this case it also synchs your notes into Scrivener.