Blogs
How to Write
Characterization
- A List of Body Language Phrases
- Body Language Basics
- Characterizing Details
- Elsa S. Henry: So, You Wanna Write A Blind Character? « terribleminds: chuck wendig
- Giving My Characters Voice
- How to Craft Great Voice
- Loving Your Characters Too Much
- Master List of Body Language and Gestures
- Romance From the Guy's Perspective
- There And Not
- Translating Emotions to Body Language
- Voice: An Agent's Perspective
- What Interiority Is and Why It Matters Kidlit
- What Makes a Character?
- Whose Eyes? Whose Voice?
- Writing Active Character Reaction
- Writing Emotional Meaning
Description and Dialogue
- Character Self-Description
- Description Issues
- Eliminating the Frame
- Ideas for Using Knowledge of Body Language in Your Writing
- More on the Descriptions: The When and Why
- On Descriptions and Breathing
- Rules of Three
- Tag, You're It! How To Write Dialogue Tags
- Writing Advice: Dialogue
- Writing Better Dialogue
General Writing Tips
- 25 More Hard Truths About Writing And Publishing
- A Million Bad Words
- A Very Good List Of Vital Writing Advice — Do Not Ignore! « terribleminds: chuck wendig
- A Writer's Worst Enemy
- Annie Dillard and the Writing Life
- Avoiding Transition Words in Writing
- Do You Suffer From One of These Writing Maladies?
- Embracing Inappropriate, Violent, and Blasphemous: Three Writers Make Negative Reviews a Fashion Statement…
- Everything Mattering
- Grounding the Reader
- Heard It Through the Grapevine
- How to Create and Use a Style-sheet to Keep the Details in Your Books Consistent
- How to Layer Points of View
- How to Write a Novel
- Kiss of Death: The Renaissance Writer
- Making Your Writing Exciting at the Sentence Level
- Playing With Blocks
- The Art of Storytelling | Pixar in a Box
- The Big Ol' Genre Glossary
- The Eternal Question: What Should I Write?
- Ultimate Fiction Writing Guide
- Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
- Words to Use When Writing
- Working Without Distractions in Scrivener
- Worksheets for Writers by Jami Gold, Paranormal Author
- Writer's Block
- Writing Conferences: Should You or Shouldn't You?
- Writing Habits of Successful Authors I Have Known
- Writing in the Age of Distraction
Hooks and Openings
Plot
- Authenticity vs. Outline
- Chronicling a Non-Chronological Story: Writing a Dual Timeline Novel
- Creating Storylines
- Definition of Plot For Writers
- Genre-Appropriate Ninjas
- How to Hook a Reader and Never Let Go
- How to Keep Track of All Your Novel’s Details
- Lions, Tigers, and Bears, Oh My!
- Outline Level of Plot
- Outlining Your Novel: Why and How
- Pace Charts
- Supertaunt Tension and Sizzling Stakes
- The Bomb Under the Sofa
- The Series Bible
- There's Always Conflict
- What the Fiction Editor Looks For
- Why Subplot?
- Writing a Hot Plot
Revision and Editing
Worldbuilding
Research & Reference
Software
What to Write
Fandom and Fanfiction
Inspiration and Ideas
Writing Prompts
Writing Business
Finding Agents and Querying
- Agenting 101: How to Handle An Editor's Call With an Offer
- Bad Blog! No Cookie For You
- Dealing With Agents
- How a Writer Makes Use of Rejection
- How to Pitch
- Overzealous is Your Middle Name
- Querying With a Series and Series In General
- Should I Send a Revision to Agents Looking At My Work?
- Why Your Story Was Rejected
Literary Agents
Marketing and Publicity
- 9 Tips For Successful Author Readings
- Around the World ARC Tours
- Attention Shoppers: Lessons Learned From a Book Signing Disaster
- Debut Author Lessons
- On The Value Of Your Authorial Platform « terribleminds: chuck wendig
- Online Platform Do's and Dont's
- The Great Big All You Can Stand Super Self-Promotion Post
- The Pros and Cons of Pro Cons for Writers
Publishing and the Industry
- Hard to Fly, Easy to Fall
- How a Book Gets Published
- How to Complain About Your Publisher In Public
- How to Get Published
- How to Request Rights Reversion From Your Publisher
- How to Start Your Own Publishing Company
- Keeping Track of Things
- Manuscript Length
- O Fortune, Fortune!
- Obtaining Reversions of Publishing Rights: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly
- The Best Way to Break Into Science Fiction is Online Publishing
- The Myth of the Unearned Advance
- The Process of Making a Book
- The Publishing Lottery and Other Insults
- When to Keep Your Trap Shut? Almost Always
- Writing As Business
- Your Writing Should Not Be Your Main Source of Validation For Who You Are as a Person – Nelson Literary Agency