Writing tips
Craft Books You need on Your Shelf
- Cherry Adairs' Writers' Bible
- Elements of Style - Strunk & White
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft - Stephen King
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions of Writing and Life - Lamott
- The Fire in Fiction - Donald Maass
- GMC: Goal, Motivation, and Conflict Debra Dixon
Visit Your High School English Class
Punctuation and Grammar
- Punctuation
- Fourteen Punctuation Marks in English Grammar
- Grammar
- More Grammar
- Grammar and Punctuation
- Grammar, Punctuation and Style
Dictionary and Thesaurus
- Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus
- Dictionary and Thesaurus
- Another Dictionary
- Urban Dictionary
- Reverse Dictionary
- Writing Realistic Injuries
- Online Graphical Dictionary
Tips from the Greats
Reference
- Reference
- Research Guide for Students (perfect for writers)
- Great Reference Site on almost Everything
- Another Great Reference Site
- How To Do Things from Celebrate Christmas to Get Ready For Sniper Training
- How Everything Works
- How Stuff Works
- Information of Specific Cities In USA
Legal
Law Enforcement
Crimes
FBI
Military
- Resources for Military Community & Military Supporters
- Information on Military Everything
- World's Military Rankings
- Military Pay-scale
- Military Dictionary
Visit Some of Your Favorite Authors
Writing Groups
Editing the Story
- Revisions
- Rewriting Checklist
- Fix the "Fatal Flaws"
- Strunk's Element of Style Online
- Frequency Phrase Counter
- Everything About English-Writing, Punctuation Grammar
- Critique Group Quiz
- Why Your Editor Doesn't Love What Your Critique Group Does
- Critique Group ~ How to Form Your
- What Your Freelance Editor Doesn't Tell You But Should
- Use Brainstorming to Edit
- Editing Tips
- 21 Part Checklist for Editing Your Book
- Scribe Guide to Editing Your Book
- 25 Writing and Self Editing Tips
- Do It Yourself Edit
- Overused Words
- 4 Tips to Edit the First Draft
- Edit Like a 4x Bestseller
Sharing the Story
- Writing Your Pitch
- Elevator Pitch Part 1
Elevator Pitch Part 2
Getting Your Pitch to Focus - Find an Agent
- Publishers Weekly
- Self-Publishing Tips and Resources
- Why Editor Dislikes What Critique Group Loves
Marketing and Social Media
- 10 Steps to Include in Your Book Marketing Plan
- Tag Line
- Tips of Building an online Following
- Social Media Marketing
- Guide to Digital Marketing
- How to Find Free Images to Use
- Sued for Using Pictures
- The Dreaded Reading
- Create a Social Media Posting Schedule
- Working With Social Media
- Increase Your Facebook Page Engagement
- Promote Unpublished work on your website
- What NOT to post on Social Media
- Promote and Market Your Book
- How to Market Your EBook
- 7 Phases of the Book Marketing Timeline
- A Marketing Timeline For Authors
Query
Synopsis
Getting it Done
- My Writing Calendar (This is a download)
- Making Time to Write
- Organizing Your Time
- Creative Procrastination
- Stop Procrastination
- Avoid Writers Block
Hear Your Story
Miscellaneous Writing
- Author's Voice
- Building a Better Voice
- Author Bio
- Where are you on the road to Publication?
- Questions Agents Ask
- Tips for Self Publishing & Self Promotion
- Supercharge Your Writing
- Why Writing Makes You a Badass
- What To Have On Your Website
- Be Your Own Writing Teacher
I've got Ideas
- Brainstorming
- Brainstorm Plot and Scenes Brainstorming Techniques
- Coming up with Ideas
- Need Story Ideas? This 5-Step Process Works Every Time
- Use Brainstorming to Edit
- Active Vs. Passive Voice
- Guide To Storytelling
- Deadly First Page Sin
- Random Generators for Writers
- More Random Generators
- Writing Better ~ 7 Instant Fixes
- Understanding the Process of Story Telling
- Getting Started
- Write the Story Using The Snowflake Method
- Help Develop Your Plot With The Story Spine
- 7 Types of Stories
- Writing Mistakes
- Word Counter
- The Last Point Of View Sheet You'll Need
- Use Brain Triggers
- 65 Trigger Words and Phrases
- Layering Emotions
- Heavy Emotions
- Show Don't Tell Emotions
- Words To Describe Feelings
- Negative Feeling Words
- Characters Emotions
- Stress Symptoms, Signs, and Causes
- Common Stress Reactions
- Stress Symptoms
- Stages of Grief
- 140 Words to Describe Mood
- Emotions and Moods
- My Character Chart (This is a download)
- Character Names
- Character Questionnaire
- Create Compelling Characters
- The Myers-Briggs Types of 202 Fictional Characters
- 10 Ways to Make Everyone Root for Your Amoral Protagonist
- Make Characters Stronger
- Character Chart
- Character Motivation
- Protagonist
- Characters w/ Tragic and Traumatic Back-story
- Characters w/ Phobias
- Random Character Traits Generator
- Myers-Briggs Personality Types and Their Job Compatibilities (With Chart)
- Plot Driven vs Character Driven Story
- Writing Your Antagonist
- Using A Character Web
- Make Your Characters More Memorable
- Cherry Adair's Plotting by Color
- Plot Generator
- Using The Snowflake Method
- Character Driven/Plot Driven
- The Hero's Journey, A Path To Plotting
- 10 Plot Problems
- Plot and Story
- Killer Plot Twist
- Laying Clues and Adding Twists
- Bones of your Story
- Scene List
- Create and Heighten Conflict
- Create Inner Conflict
- Creating Tension
- Build Tension & Heighten Stakes
- Tighten your Tension
- Create and Sustain Suspense
- Add Tension During Revisions
- Ten Tips to Increase Tension
- Eight Steps to Create Tension
- Uneven Balance Kills Tension
- Show Don't Tell Worksheet for Kids
- Show Don't Tell
- Show Don't Tell
- Show Don't Tell in Every Section of Your Writing
- Dialogue Tools
- Real Dialogue
- Dialogue ~ Make your Characters Unique
- Dialogue to Distinguish between Characters
- Dialogue
- More on Dialogue
- Enhance Dialogue
- Dialogue Tags
- Purpose of Dialogue 1
- Purpose of Dialogue 2
- Purpose of Dialogue 3
- Advice on Dialogue
- Get Rid of Dialogue Tags
- Use Body Language, Action and Internal Thought in Dialogue
- Body Language in Dialogue
- Keep Your Story Moving Part 1
- Keep Your Story Moving Part 2
- Pacing Tips
- Sagging Middle
- Pacing
- Pace Yourself (This is a pdf file)
- Master Pacing