Blogs
Characterization
- A List of Body Language Phrases
- Body Language Basics
- Characterizing Details
- Conversations With Your Characters: On Building the Character Bible
- 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
- On Character Attributions
- Romance From the Guy's Perspective
- Souls For the Soulless: Advice on Characters in Fiction
- 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
- 7 Tips to Nail The Perfect Title
- Character Self-Description
- Characters Make Talky Talky: How to Write Dialogue That Doesn't Suck
- 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
Fandom and Fanfiction
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
- How to Sign With an Agent
- On Agent Responses
- One Page Summaries
- Overzealous is Your Middle Name
- Querying With a Series and Series In General
- Should I Send a Revision to Agents Looking At My Work?
- Turn One Agent's No Into Another Agent's Yes
- What's Not To Like?
- Why Literary Agents Won’t Shop Your Self-Published Book
- Why You Should Never Submit Unagented to Publishing Companies
- Why Your Story Was Rejected
- Yes, Virginia, You Need an Agent
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
- Advice for Authors
- Annie Dillard and the Writing Life
- Avoiding Transition Words in Writing
- Crap Habits of a Highly Ineffective Professional Writer
- Do You Suffer From One of These Writing Maladies?
- Embracing Inappropriate, Violent, and Blasphemous: Three Writers Make Negative Reviews a Fashion Statement…
- Every Writer is a Baseball Card
- Everything Mattering
- Grounding the Reader
- Heard It Through the Grapevine
- How to be a Creative Badass: A 12-Point Plan
- How to Create and Use a Style-sheet to Keep the Details in Your Books Consistent
- How to Layer Points of View
- How to Make Your Novel a Page Turner
- How to Write a Novel
- How to Write Horror: The Weirdo Argues With Himself
- Kiss of Death: The Renaissance Writer
- Making Your Writing Exciting at the Sentence Level
- Overwriters Anonymous
- Playing With Blocks
- Repeat After Me, Writers: No Unitaskers
- Strangling My Darlings In a Clawfoot Bathtub
- The Art of Storytelling | Pixar in a Box
- The Big Ol' Genre Glossary
- The Dangers of Writing to an Ever-Changing Market | BookEnds Literary Agency
- The End of the Beginning: Now the Real Work Begins
- The Eternal Question: What Should I Write?
- Ultimate Fiction Writing Guide
- Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
- Why Do Authors Have to Wreck Everything? (and other bullshit)
- Words to Use When Writing
- Working Without Distractions in Scrivener
- Writer's Block
- Writers Don't Do That
- 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
Inspiration and Ideas
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
- Defending Your Brand Online
- Manifesto: I Am Not A Brand
- Marketing Principles
- My Horrible New York Times Review
- On The Value Of Your Authorial Platform « terribleminds: chuck wendig
- Online Platform Do's and Dont's
- Pimpin' Your Book: How to Work Effectively With Your Publicist
- Pimpin' Your Book: What is Publicity & Marketing, Anyway?
- The Great Big All You Can Stand Super Self-Promotion Post
- The Pros and Cons of Pro Cons for Writers
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
- How to Make a Series Bible
- 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
Publishing and the Industry
- A Peek Behind the Publishing Curtain
- A Tax Cheat Sheet for Kindle eBook Self-Publishing
- 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
- Making a Case For Knowing Your Place
- Manuscript Length
- O Fortune, Fortune!
- Obtaining Reversions of Publishing Rights: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly
- On Word Counts and Novel Lengths
- The Best Way to Break Into Science Fiction is Online Publishing
- The Myth of the Unearned Advance
- The Process of Making a Book
- The Process of Publishing 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
Research & Reference
Revision and Editing
Software
Worldbuilding
Writing Prompts
Writing Resources
Writing Sex