RESOURCES-TIPS: For writers of all genre who want to write, and the readers who love them.

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
- Somerset Maugham

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary -- it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
- Somerset Maugham

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.
- Alice Munro

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.
- Edgar Rice Burroughs

Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil -- but there is no way around them.
Isaac Asimov

To write fiction, one need a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.
- Aldus Huxley

Get it down. Take changes. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good.
- William Faulkner

Books aren't written, they're rewritten. Including our own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
- Michael Crichton

Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer.
- Ray Bradbury

Youth Writing Markets

Markets, RESOURCES-TIPS

Absolute Write – Excellent resource and Market (No pay)

AdLit.org – Adolescent Literacy offers news and reviews of the best of books for teenagers. Includes advice and strategies for teachers and parents.

Children’s Writing Resource Center

Creative Arts In Action – Writing club and workshops that help your child learn to love to write.

Creative Writing for Teens-Find tips, news, activities, a chat room, a selection of young authors’ works, plus creative writing & homework help. Submit your work for a chance to be published online. Market

CyberKids-Art and writing accepted. Ages 7-12 Market

CyberTeens-Fiction, Non Fiction, and Poetry. Ages 13-19 Market

Education World : Curriculum: Ten Tips for Young Writers.

EZeeWriter.com – EZeeWriter helps the beginning and veteran writer along the word path.

Fear of Writing – Fear of Writing is for anyone who experiences that familiar thud in the pit of the stomach when they visualize sitting down to write.

FundsforWriters-Funds for Writers provides a source for struggling writers seeking funds for their dreams. Funds consist of grants, awards, fellowships, markets and contests to open doors for writers making a living through their passion for words.

Insight – A Christian magazine for teens. Writer’s guidelines INSIGHT; 55 W. Oak Ridge Drive; Hagerstown, MD 21740-7390. Paying Market

Journal For You -This site offers the how, who, what, when, where, and why journaling is for you.

Markets for Young Authors – young writers looking for a place to publish their work. Also an aid for teachers.

MerlynsPen.com – “Fiction, Essays, and Poems by America’s Teens” Market

Modern Language Association – MLA Bibliographic format. Standards for research papers.

New Moon Girls – For young girls 8 to 14 years. Market

Stone Soup Magazine-Now in its 28th year, Stone Soup brings young readers thought-provoking stories, heartfelt poems, and beautiful art by their peers worldwide. Budding writers and artists are encouraged to create and submit their own work. Market

Story Book Online – Loads of things to do from writing stories, read original stories, create interactive stories and much more.

SynergEbooks E-book Market
Includes books ‘By Teens For Teens’ in it’s regular publishing program.

Teen Ink: Written By Teens Market
A web site, a monthly print magazine and a book series written by teens for teens. Now in its 13th year.

Teen Writers Resources – for teen interested in writing Science Fiction and Fantasy

Teens Writing for Teens – Teens Writing for Teens is a community of young adult authors writing YA fiction. We’re here to offer insight, encouragement and amusement as we live the lives of young novelists and deal with that ever-popular question, “So…aren’t you a little young to write a book?”

The e-Writer’s Place-Packed full with information. Home of the column Writer’s of the Next Generation.

Tips For Young Writers by Ralph Fletcher

Willamette Writers – an organization for published and aspiring writers of the Pacific Northwest

Write From Home – this site strives to offer work-at-home writers tips, information and resources to help you balance your writing career and children under one roof.

WashingtonPost.com KidsPost

Word Dance Magazine (Market) Accepts writing and art.

Writing to Inspire – Tips and Resources for Inspirational and Christian Writers.

Writing-World.com – A World of Writing Tips – for Writers Around the World.

Writer’s Help Desk – Answers questions about your writing and publishing needs.

Young Writer’s Society –

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