The Single Best Piece of Advice I’ve Gotten as a Writer

Great Sources for Writers:

Poets & Writers Magazine
The Nebraska Center for Writers

Books on Writing that I’ve Found Particularly Helpful:

The Art of Fiction by John Gardner: perhaps a little overwhelming for new writers, but I go back to the chapter on plotting again and again
The Weekend Novelist by Robert Ray: a goofy title, but it does a nice job of laying out for the beginner a way to write a novel from start to finis...