Best Websites for Writers in 2024
Writers are always looking for new and interesting ways to improve their craft. Whether it's finding a new online community to share work with, or locating resources that can help with specific aspects of writing, the web is a vast and valuable resource. Here are some of the best websites for writers.
Daily Grammar
Daily Grammar is a fun, convenient way to learn grammar. They simplify complex grammar subjects making it a great teaching tool for anyone needing to refresh their grammar skills. They provide a complimentary email service through the Daily Grammar Blog. Lessons are posted on the blog Monday through Friday, with a quiz on Saturday. They also have a Twitter account that has daily tweets with links to their lessons. Daily Grammar consists of 440 lessons and 88 quizzes. Lessons 1-90 cover the eight parts of speech, which are verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
Duotrope
Duotrope is an established, award-winning resource for writers and artists. They can help you save time finding publishers or literary agents, so you can focus on creating. Their publication and agent listings are up to date and full of information you won't find elsewhere. Duotrope also offer submission trackers, custom searches, deadline calendars, statistical reports, and extensive interviews. Duotrope isn’t free. An annual subscription costs £42.50 (at time of publishing.) They do offer a free trial.
Globe Soup
www.globesoup.net
Forgive the self-promotion, but we’re including ourselves on this list! We use writing competitions and challenges — with cash prizes — to motive writers to build a writing habit, practice and develop specific writing skills, work to a deadline and get feedback and encouragement on their work. Our contests use prompts and themes to help bypass writers’ block and our challenges often see writers writing against the clock (which is really useful for any writers who struggle to finish projects). We even have mini challenges designed to tackle specific writing skills individually. Every contest and challenge has a cash prize and free feedback for all entries. Most of our contests and challenges are free, but some have a small fee. Sign up to our mailing list at the bottom of this page to start receiving contests and challenges directly to your inbox. There’s no subscription fee, you simply pick and choose which ones to enter as they come up!
Evernote
Evernote will help you to get your ideas down fast and combine them with images, sketches, documents, and audio recordings to turn passing thoughts into plans for action. Keep all your project materials in one place—including checklists, emails, and PDFs. Their smart search feature puts it all at your fingertips.
NaNoWriMo
National Novel Writing Month began in 1999 as a daunting but straightforward challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days. Now, each year on November 1, hundreds of thousands of people around the world begin to write, determined to end the month with 50,000 words of a brand new novel. Writing a novel alone can be difficult, even for seasoned writers. NaNoWriMo helps you track your progress, set milestones, connect with other writers in a vast community, and participate in events that are designed to make sure you finish your novel. Oh, and best of all, it’s free!
Fancy trying your luck with a writing competition? Check out our ‘Big List of International Writing Competitions!’
Hemingway Editor
The app highlights lengthy, complex sentences and common errors. Paste in something you're working on and edit away. Or, click the Write button and compose something new.
DIY MFA
The beauty of DIY MFA is that while it covers most of what you’d get in a traditional MFA, you get to decide how to structure your writing, reading and community so you can reach your goals. Learn how to make writing a priority while still fitting it into your existing life. Boost your creativity through prompts and writing exercises. Hone your craft and master writing techniques. Discover tools to help you keep up your motivation so you can finish that project you’ve always wanted to write.
Query Shark
Query Shark critiques fiction queries. You have to send a query to the shark for it to be considered. If the shark thinks you made some interesting errors in your query, the shark will post it along with a critique. Not all queries are published and critiqued, so it’s a good idea to use the site as a resource and read as many previous critiques as you can!
Writer’s Digest
At Writer’s Digest, their mission is to help ignite writers' creative vision and connect them with the community, education and resources they need to bring it to life. From inspiring prompts, practical techniques and insightful interviews, to instructional workshops, writing competitions and professional services — They help writers of all genres and formats develop their craft and hone their business skills at every stage of their career.
Medium
Anyone can write on Medium. Thought-leaders, journalists, experts, and individuals with unique perspectives share their thinking here. You’ll find pieces by independent writers from around the globe, stories they feature and leading authors, and smart takes on their own suite of blogs and publications.
Campfire
Campfire is a creative writing software platform that allows you to plot and plan your writing projects in a slick, appealing, and highly organised way. Campfire is broken down into individual modules, meaning you only use the parts of their software that you actually need. These modules include: Character Sheets, Relationship Webs, Timelines, story Arcs, custom Encyclopedias, Research Storage, Language Creation, Magic System Templates, and System Flowcharts. Campfire has three sections. Campfire Write for writing software tools, Campfire Learn for free educational resources for all writers, and Campfire Explore for a platform to publish your stories and read stories from the rest of the community. You can also write your manuscript on Campfire, which means you can actually write while referencing your notes and keeping track of all your story’s moving parts. Campfire was originally geared more towards science fiction and fantasy writers, but they’ve worked hard to make their platform suitable for all writers who like to plan and plot their stories. The best thing about Campfire is that you can try all the modules for free, and they have flexible pricing if you decide to upgrade to a subscription.
Agentquery.com
AgentQuery.com offers one of the largest searchable database of literary agents on the web—a treasure trove of reputable, established literary agents seeking writers. The best part is that there’s no subscription required to use their resources.
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