9. Key resources and key people

Irish Writers Podcast

This time we talk about the things that we’ve used that helped us: books, websites, courses, conferences, and everyone refuses to enable my insistence that movie watching counts as writing! I then asked when are you ready to go looking for an agent. And we talk about the agent’s role, finding the right agent, how writers become authors, and the luxury of time for first time authors…. and the beginnings of a Santa origin story.

Resources we mention are:

• Aerogramme Writers Studio http://www.aerogrammestudio.com/
• Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76788.Becoming_a_Writer
• How to write Science Fiction and Fantasy by Orson Scott Card http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31363.How_to_Write_Science_Fiction_Fantasy
• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12543.Bird_by_Bird
• Irish Writers Centre http://irishwriterscentre.ie/
• Write your Novel from the Middle by James Scott Bell http://jamesscottbell.com/styled-7/styled-35/index.html
• Thanks, But This Isn’t For Us by Jessica Page Morrell http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5945430-thanks-but-this-isn-t-for-us
• Write and Get Paid for it by Terry Prone http://www.londubh.ie/?p=239
• www.Writing.ie
• National Museum of Ireland www.museum.ie
• Scriptfrenzy http://nanowrimo.org/forums/script-frenzy
• Internet movie script database http://www.imsdb.com/
• 2015 Oscar nominated screenplays https://screencraft.org/2015/02/22/2015-oscar-nominated-screenplays/
• More screenplays http://gointothestory.blcklst.com/free-script-downloads/
• Scriptnotes podcast http://johnaugust.com/podcast
• Save the Cat by Blake Snyder http://www.savethecat.com/
• Twitter #amwriting #amediting #writerstips
• Women Writers, Women Books http://booksbywomen.org/
• Writers and Artists Yearbook https://www.writersandartists.co.uk/

Presented and produced by Cathy Clarke, Kate Mulholland and Máire Brophy.

Music by Gavin Mulhall