Writing Lab

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.

• Survival Tecniques (Lissa Bryan)
• Top Ten Most Useful Things in An Apocalypse (Lissa Bryan)
• Reasons Why You May Choose to Read the Books You Read (Brooke Williams)
• What NOT to say to a writer (Isabella Biedenharn)
• Experience Writing Historical Fiction (Elise de Sallier)
• What Stops Readers in Their Tracks? (WriteDivas)
• Experience Writing Éire’s Devil King (Sandi Layne)
• Experience Writing Shadows Have Gone (Lissa Bryan)
• Your Writing Routine - Experience Writing Maybe (Amber L. Johnson)
• The Most Difficult (and the Easiest) Scene To Write (Brooke Williams)
• Writing about Vampires (Lorenz Font)
• Experience Writing Breeder (K.B. Hoyle)
• Experience Writing Wrong Place, Right Time (Brooke Williams)
• Crafting Your Characters (Amber L. Johnson)
• Having a Book Translated (Suzy Duffy)
• Sophie Kinsella's Top 10 Tips for Being a Best-Selling Author (Sophie Kinsella)
• Five Things Writers Have to Learn to Do that Have Nothing to Do with Writing (T.M. Franklin)
• Writing Fiction and Writing for a Newspaper (N.R. White)
• Writing Tip and Reading Suggestion: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
• Writing Tip and Reading Suggestion: G. K. Chesterton
• The Inspiration Behind "Anniversary Killer" (Alexandra Allred)
• Writing Tip and Reading Suggestion: Edgar Allan Poe
• Experience Writing Ready to Love Again (Annalyse Knight)
• Writing Tip and Reading Suggestion: Chekhov
• Writing Tip and Reading Suggestion: C. S. Lewis
• Writing Tips: "Come in here. You want to know about this." Stephen King and James Patterson
• Writing Tips and Reading Suggestion: Maya Angelou
• Writing Tips and Reading Suggestion: George Orwell
• Into the Mindset of... (Venita Ellick)
• Seven Traits of Enduring Characters (Michael A. Stackpole)
• Angst (Shay Savage)
• Point of View 
• Do you use your own experiences to inspire your writing? (Brian Sweany)
• Writing About Anne Boleyn (Lissa Bryan) 
• Annoying Grammar Mistakes People Always Make (Christina Sterbenz)
• 5 Ways to Write a Good Sentence (CopyBlogger.com)
• When to Use Paragraphs 
• Writing Quote: #Fountain of Youth (Sophia Loren)
• Writing Quote: #Creativity (Scott Raymond Adams)
• "Candy Bar" Scenes (Mike Wells)
• Editing Tips (TheWriteLife.com)
• A Novel in 30 Days. Seriously? [NaNoWriMo] (T.M. Franklin)
• Ten Rules of Writing (Elmore Leonard)
• The Birth of a Book (Suzy Duffy)
• What JK Rowling Can Teach about Writing (Michelle V. Rafter) 
• What Successful People Do With the First Hour of Their Work Day (Kevin Purdy)
• Transitioning Into a Sex Scene (Raum for Project Team Beta)
• Is Your Plot Predictable? (Rita Karnopp)
• You Have to See It to Believe It! (Alexandra Allred)
• 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: [FandomNaNoWriMo] [Lissa Bryan] [Raum]
• 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)