I believe that a reading/writing community can be a great opportunity to learn to write better, to become a more perceptive reader, to share ideas and get feedback.
Here I'd like to collect writing stuff: tips, exercises, experiences, links...Enjoy!
Your suggestions will be much appreciated! Thanks!
Posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Here I'd like to collect writing stuff: tips, exercises, experiences, links...Enjoy!
Your suggestions will be much appreciated! Thanks!
Posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
- To Blog or Not to Blog?
- Writing a "Coming of Age" Novel (Brian Sweany)
- Famous Authors Talk about Writing (part II)
- Famous Authors Talk about Writing (part I)
- Make Me Laugh (articles about humour and writing)
- Punctuation Saves Lives (Grammar Girl)
- Writing Historical Fiction (David R. Gillham)
- A Christmas Stocking of Writing Tips (Chuck Palahniuk)
- Point-Of-View in Fiction: Deep or Shallow? (Jill Elizabeth Nelson - Donya Lynne)
- NaNoWriMo 2012:
- Tips for Building Suspense in Writing (T.M. Franklin)
- Dealing with Criticism (Lissa Bryan)
- The Best Advice (Lissa Bryan)
- In six seconds, you'll hate me. But in six months... (Chuck Palahniuk)
- Creating a Short Synopsis for Your Book (Mike Wells)
- Words to Avoid When Writing (Raum)
- What Do Writers Read? (Lissa Bryan)
- A Collection of Tips (Raum)
- How to Improve Your Writing (Lissa Bryan)
- How to Write a Review (Twilight of Craigslist Fanfic Contest)
- So You Want to Write a Lemon (jmolly)
- The Religious Theme in Fiction (Lissa Bryan)
- Everything You Shouldn’t Do And Why it Works for Me (Lissa Bryan)
- Writing a story ending (Raum)
- Training as a Writer in a Writing Community (jmolly)
- Lay, Lie, Sit, Set (HubPages)
- Creative use of Timelines in Writing (Nayarit)
- A historical dictionary of American Slang (Raum)
- Research and Feedback (State of delusion)
- Accents in writing (Nayarit)
- The perfect teaser (A Different Forest)
- When to make a new paragraph (Michael Klingensmith)
- Character. Action. Setting. (K. M. Weiland)
- Readers, Beta-Readers, Writers (RandomCran)
- Writing multiple POVs (Nayarit)
- Showing and Telling (a fic by Savage7289, commented by Raum)
- The Serial Form and Fanfic WIPs (Cecilia Tan)
- 10 tips to make your Betas love you (Emergency Beta Service)
- Crafting Unforgettable Characters (K.M. Weiland)
- Present tense vs. Past tense in fiction (Miaokuancha)
- The outline (Sandi Layne)
- Writing dialogue (Raum)
- The conflict in a story outline (LJ Summers)
- Chapter structure: title, end line, "miniteaser" (Shay Savage)
- The opening hook of a story (Cesca Marie)
- The relationship between an author and her/his characters (BrattyVamp)
- Short chapters and frequent updates (Shay Savage)
- Writing in a foreign language (Raum)
