A writer needs all the help she can get, so here's a few suggestions from my own tool box.
1. Scrivener is software I use to manage my writing projects. It's a UK product and was developed for the MAC. They recently added PC's to their universe. You can purchase for either computer type at http://literatureandlatte.com. They have a 30 day free trial. It helps to tame the beast when trying to revise. I won't go into details, go check it out.
2. The Internet Writing Workshop www.internetwritingworkshop.org is a listserve managed by some people at Penn State. It is one of Writer's Digest 101 Best Web Sites for writers. I don't know if there is any association with the school, but I have made many good writing contacts through this site. You can submit an entire ms one chapter at a time. Some of the critters are published authors.
3. You Write On www.youwriteon.com is based in the UK. You can submit the first 7 K words of your ms. For every critique you give, you will receive a critique in return. Assignments are done randomly. When you are critiqued, your ms is graded in 8 categories from Characters, Pace, Story, Language, Voice, Dialogue to Theme and Setting. After your ms receives 8 critiques (I don't know why everything is in eights) it is ranked with all the other ms on the site (hundreds & hundreds). Every month the top rated submissions receive a critique from an editor at Orion or Random House. You can read all the critiques by these professional editors and learn quite a bit.
Sharon
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