What is the BEST "writing advice" website you have found?

Probably Baen's Bar or it was at one time. I haven't been there in a long time. Critique Circle is also an active writing advice forum where you can find a lot of beta readers for your work.

ETA: Baen's Bar is mainly for SF and Fantasy. CC has writers of all genres who are members.

I'll put in a plug for Romance Divas (http://www.romancedivas.com), where I'm a mod, and the Ruby-Slippered Sisterhood (http://www.rubyslipperedsisterhood.com), where I'm a contributor.

RD has won numerous awards (6 years straight in Writers Digest 101 Best websites), and the Ruby blog is frequently mentioned by aspiring and debut authors as being instrumental to their success. Just yesterday I came across a random newly-published book in which the author (who is NOT a Ruby, btw -- I had no idea who she was) gave a shout-out to the Rubies because it was our Winter Writing Festival that finally gave her the push to complete her first manuscript.

Story Fix http://storyfix.com/ Larry Brooks

Today's lead is: Beware the Under-Cooked Story Concept

I liked his book on writing, too. Story Engineering

Holly Lisle has a lot of resources for writers. Some are free, some aren't. I can vouch for her two paying courses, How to Think Sideways and How to Revise Your Novel, which are great!

http://www.hollylisle.com

Seriously, I have learned SO MUCH from her about every aspect of writing. She had something like...what, 32? novels trade published before taking the self-pub leap a couple of years back. But even before that, I was buying her books on writing, and taking her courses (How to Revise Your Novel saved a project I really thought was hopeless)

But even before that, I was eating up all the free writing stuff on her website. Hands-down my favorite.

ETA: Yay Nathalie! Great minds think alike

I've gotten lots of good advice from Gail Carson Levine's blog - http://gailcarsonlevine.blogspot.com/

Author S.M. Boyce also has a section on her website for indie authors that I found very helpful - http://writing.smboyce.com/

I enjoy listening to the Creative Penn Podcasts:

http://www.thecreativepenn.com/podcasts/

I like Holly Lisle, too!

Not a web site, but [urlhttp://selfpublishingpodcast.com/]The Self-Publishing Podcast[/url] is full of good advice and interesting tidbits on writing via the archives. Beware of coarse language, if you are sensitive to such things!

ElHawk said:

I like Holly Lisle, too!

Not a web site, but [urlhttp://selfpublishingpodcast.com/]The Self-Publishing Podcast[/url] is full of good advice and interesting tidbits on writing via the archives. Beware of coarse language, if you are sensitive to such things!

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Very cool!
I will have to check that out.
Thanks for sharing.

Word Play has lots of craft articles & videos: http://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/

Other than here, I'd say the most thought provoking and helpful site I read daily has to be Dalya's YA INDIE.

Backspace rocks! www.bksp.org Lots of craft threads and if you're into writing short stories, they have regular free contests with excellent critiques.

Nathalie Hamidi said:

Holly Lisle has a lot of resources for writers. Some are free, some aren't. I can vouch for her two paying courses, How to Think Sideways and How to Revise Your Novel, which are great!

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Ditto to Holly. There's a bunch of free awesomeness over there.