Advice to Another Writer

I was having a chat today with a barista at the coffee shop where Hubby and his Dad spend some ten hours per week. (Apparently there's nothing wrong with the previous statement.)

In any case, she's been writing in her spare time and wants to make a career of it so that she can travel, and Hubby's dad wanted me to have a chat with her to see what happened. It turns out, she's ready to submit her first kids' book for publishing, which is a totally awesome effort and possibly disqualifies me from giving her any advice (at least until I've entered the rejection-resubmission cycle with Futureproof :P). In any case, as usual, I recommended fanfiction as a cheap and easy way of getting feedback and growing as a writer, and NaNoWriMo as a way of getting a quick and dirty and most of all finished first draft. We chatted about not expecting to be the next Rowling, and about the horror stories we'd heard about trying to get published.

I'd forgotten to make a list of the blogs and books I'd recommend beforehand, but I put one together for her afterwards.

( Then I realised I should probably post them here. )

So that's my list of favourite resources. Who's got something to add?