The document provides resources for creative writers, including several websites that offer writing markets, networking opportunities, coaching services, and information on developing characters and plots. It also lists several printed references for writers, such as annual guides to writing markets and fiction writing books. Local in-person resources mentioned are critique groups affiliated with the Houston Writers Guild and the White Oaks Writers Group.

1. Lone Star College - Academy for Life Long Learning
Creative Writing – October 22 and November 26, 2012
Resources
On-Line
www.writersmarket.com – an on-line version of the “writer’s Bible” with hundreds of listings of
markets for freelance writing and other resources for authors. A subscription will include regular e-
letter blurbs and dozens of invitations to sign up for various webinar courses.
www.houstonwritersguild.org – the website for the local Houston Writers Guild. You can sign up for
an e-letter and find out about local critique groups. The Guild offers two local writers conferences –
one in the spring and one in the fall.
www.writenowcoach.com – a service offered by author Rochelle Melander who, for fee, will coach
you by the hour and invite to monthly free Master Mind Classes where she interviews authors and
discusses a variety of writing business related topics from getting organized to blogging to finding a
home for what you write.
www.MargieLawson.com – a professional counselor-author who has developed a “deep EDITS
System” to help authors develop realistic characters, settings, plot, and dialogue. She offers
Immersion Master Classes several times a year at her personal retreat center in Colorado and other
places.
www.editorsandpreditors.com – a site where published authors file consumer complaints against
people who take advantage of beginning writers.
In Print
The Writer’s Market – A listing of hundreds of markets for writing, plus articles on how to write, how
to publish, how to run a writing business. Updated every year and available in most libraries.
Fiction Writer’s Workshop, Josip Novakovich.
Writing Fiction for Dummies, Randy Ingermanson.
The Right to Write, Julie Cameron
The Artist’s Way, A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, Julia Cameron
Magazines: The Writer, Writer’s Digest
In Person Kathy Haueisen
Houston Writer’s Guild critique groups kathyhaueisen@sbcglobal.net
White Oaks Writer’s Group 832.922.5675
www.kathyhaueisen.com