Creative writing resources
A list of things I've found useful or interesting, or I'm making a note to take a look at. I'll keep adding to it as I go along.
Podcasts and newsletters
- Couch to 80k Writing Bootcamp
- Jane Claire Bradley's newsletter
- Start With This
- The Weird Circular
- Writing Excuses
- Stone Soup newsletter
Essays and articles
- Never Say You Can't Survive
- The Art of Dread
- Mythcreants
- Damsels In Distress
- Myth and Moor
- On trauma-informed writing
- Disrupting realism
Books
- Steering The Craft - Ursula K. Le Guin
- Writing The Other - Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward
- Never Say You Can't Survive - Charlie Jane Anders
- Big Magic - Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Right to Write - Julia Cameron
- Wonderbook - Jeff Vandermeer
- Writing In The Dark - Tim Waggoner
- Craft In The Real World - Matthew Salesses
- Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer : The Artistry, Joy, and Career of Storytelling - J. Michael Straczynski
- Real Artists Don't Starve - Jeff Goins
- On Writing - Stephen King
- The Emotional Craft of Fiction - Donald Maass
- Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction - Patricia Highsmith
Courses and workshops
- Write Like A Grrrl
- Rambo Writing Academy - Online classes
- Rambo Writing Academy - Live classes
- Writing the Other
- Disrupting Realism Masterclass: Magic, Humour, and Other Disturbances
- Community Craft
- Crow Collective
- Gotham Writers
- Clarion West
- Speculative Literature Foundation
- Horror University Online
- National Centre For Writing
- OpenLearn - Start writing fiction
- OpenLearn - Creative Writing and Critical Reading
- Fright Club
- LitReactor
- Hugo House
- Odyssey Writing Workshop