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Alternatively: On Writing: Memoirs of the Craft by Stephen King

This is (mostly) a collection of links on writing. This covers topics such as agents, characterization, critiquing, description, dialogue, genre, glossaries, manuscripts, markets, methodology, narratology, outlines, plots, scenes, tropes, world building, and writing groups. (e)

Advice, Tips and Tricks

10 laws of bad science fiction
A Basic Guide to Horror by Paula Guran
Articles on Writing SF, Fantasy, & Horror a list of links at Writing-World.com
Articles on Writing a list of links at the Horror Writers Association (horror.org)
Blending Fiction and History by Paula Fleming
Building New Worlds by Stephen Baxter
The link Creating Memorable Characters is broken, try all at web.archive.org
Creating a Realistic Fantasy World by Penny Ehrenkranz
Essay on Plot by Damon Knight
Essays on Plot by S. Andrew Swann
Exploring The Dark Side: The Anti-Hero's Journey by James Bonnet
Finessing the Infodump by Paula Fleming
Getting Published by Jeffrey A. Carver
Getting that First Horror Novel Published by Michael Marano
Handling Multiple POVs by Vicki Hinze
How to Revise a Novel by Holly Lisle
How to Write a Synopsis by Rebecca Sinclair
How to Write Fiction by Robert Harris
Hunting a Literary Agent by Chuck Rothman
Science Fiction and Fantasy at Writing-World.com
Landing an Agent by Robert J. Sawyer
Line Editing in 10 Easy Steps from DeepGenre.com
Making Monsters by James Patrick Kelly
Manuscript Preparation by Vonda N. McIntyre
Never-Say-Neverisms by William Safire
No Bones About it: How to Write Today's Horror - Part I by David Taylor
No Bones About it: How to Write Today's Horror - Part II by David Taylor
No Bones About it: How to Write Today's Horror - Part III by David Taylor
The link On Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction for Kids is broken, try all at web.archive.org by Sherwood Smith
On Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction for Kids by Sherwood Smith
Pitfalls of Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy by Vonda N. McIntyre
Q&A: Point of View by Nancy Kress
Query Letters: Do them Right! by Lori Foster
Rejection by Patricia Duffy Novak
Rights: What they Mean and Why They're Important by Marg Gilks
Science in Science Fiction: Making it Work by Joan Sionczewski
Show vs. Tell by Maria V. Snyder
The 39 Steps to Getting Published by Tara K. Harper
The Alternate View (aimed at readers and writers of "hard" science fiction) columns by John G. Cramer
The Failure Of Genre Poetry by Bruce Boston
The link The Fiction Writers Page is broken, try all at web.archive.org by Crawford Kilian
The Fully Realized World by Kate Elliott
The Language Construction Kit by Mark Rosenfelder
The Powers of Myth by Pamela Jaye Smith
The Road to a First Novel by J. V. Jones and Betsy Mitchell
The Standard Deviations of Writing by Roger MacBride Allen
The Writer's Craft by Ben Bova
Tips for Adding Tension to Your Fiction by Stacy Verdick Case
Uncle Orson's Writing Class by Orson Scott Card
What's the Magic Word: Defining the Sources, Effects and Costs of Magic by Lital Talmor
The link Worldbuilding Questions is broken, try all at web.archive.org by Patricia C. Wrede
Writing Full Time: A User's Guide by Robert Weinberg
Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy from the SFWA
Writing Tips by editor Ellen Datlow
Writing for the Web by Crawford Kilian
Writing Science Fiction For Kids by Justin Stanchfield
Using Current Events in Speculative Fiction by Paula Fleming
Using History: We Know Stuff Happens, but How? by Paula Fleming
Formatting Outlines and Manuscripts by Orson Scott Card - Mar 7, 2006
Third-Person Characters by Orson Scott Card - Sep 28, 2004
Copyrights by Orson Scott Card - Apr 1, 2004
Chapter Length by Orson Scott Card - Apr 1, 2004
Parallel Storylines by Orson Scott Card - Oct 14, 2003
A Conversation on Character by Orson Scott Card - Oct 14, 2003
Stories with Soul by Orson Scott Card - Oct 13, 2003
Naming Characters by Orson Scott Card - Mar 5, 2003
More in Naming Characters by Orson Scott Card - Mar 5, 2003
Starting a Short Story by Orson Scott Card - 05 Mar 2003
Writer's Block by Orson Scott Card - 23 Sep 2002
Classroom Writing Activities by Orson Scott Card - 10 Apr 2002
Background - How Much is Too Much by Orson Scott Card - 14 Jan 2002
Thought vs. Action by Orson Scott Card - 19 Apr 2001
Distractions from Writing by Orson Scott Card - 15 Mar 2001
Writing Spec Scripts by Orson Scott Card - 15 Mar 2001
Inventing Aliens by Orson Scott Card - 15 Mar 2001
Hot and Cold Third-Person by Orson Scott Card - 15 Mar 2001
Themes by Orson Scott Card - 2 Aug 2000
Point of View by Orson Scott Card - 2 Aug 2000
Your Inner Editor by Orson Scott Card - Aug, 2 2000
Digital Books by Orson Scott Card - Aug, 2 2000
Novel Length by Orson Scott Card - Aug 2, 2000
Plotlines and Ideas by Orson Scott Card - Apr 26, 2000
The "Maguffin" by Orson Scott Card - Apr 26, 2000
On Plagiarism, Borrowing, Resemblance, and Influence by Orson Scott Card - Dec 20, 1999
When is Conflict Good? by Orson Scott Card - Oct 05, 1999
Inventing Stories by Orson Scott Card - Jan 29, 1999
Do I need an agent? by Orson Scott Card - Jan 29, 1999
OSC Critique by Orson Scott Card - Nov 17, 1998
Beginnings by Orson Scott Card - Oct 29, 1998
Discussion of Dialogue and Style by Orson Scott Card - Aug 14, 1998
Does a Writing Career Always Mean Novels? by Orson Scott Card - Jul 16, 1998
On Rhetoric and Style by Orson Scott Card - May 12, 1998

Middles by Joe Nassise
Showing vs. Telling Sentences at writing.colostate.edu
Critiquing tag at technorati.com
Writing tag at technorati.com
List of useful links for searching for blog entries on writing
Stupid Plot Tricks By Teresa Nielsen Hayden
A Discussion of Story: From Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin

Notes on what to avoid in your writing

Archetype: The Fiction Writer's Guide to Psychology
- Writing and Editing Fiction Using Real Psychology
- Agents & Publishing

Writing Genre Fiction (SF/Fantasy/Horror/Mystery/Western) (misc.writing Recommended Reading List)

Writing Process: Writing With A Craft Goal In Mind by Kate Elliott at DeepGenre.com

Mystery Writing: Keep Your Audience Intoxicated by Patrick Davis

Mindhacks

So You Want To Write ...

Stories we see too often

Agents

Agents With Blogs
Agents and editors who blog
AgentQuery.com
Do I need an agent? by Orson Scott Card - Jan 29, 1999
Hunting a Literary Agent by Chuck Rothman
Landing an Agent by Robert J. Sawyer
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Story Beginnings

Hooking Them From the Start at CastingTheBones.com

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Blogs

40 Inspiring Writing Blogs that you Don’t Already Read

Characters

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Character
On Writing Characters
What Does Your Protagonist Want? by Paula Fleming
What "Type" Is Your Character? by Paula Fleming
What's in a Name? by Moira Allen
Third-Person Characters by Orson Scott Card - Sep 28, 2004
A Conversation on Character by Orson Scott Card - Oct 14, 2003
Naming Characters by Orson Scott Card - Mar 5, 2003
More in Naming Characters by Orson Scott Card - Mar 5, 2003
Building Characters at DeepGenre.com
Creating Fictional Characters That Hook The Reader by Lonnie Ezell
Adding Character Depth Through Perception
Some thoughts on “character” at The Pinocchio Theory
Fiction Writer's Character Chart
Character Trait Chart and Personality Components
Creative Writing 101 - Lesson 5: Character Building - Fantasy, Science Fiction and Animal Characters
Character Building Workshop
Character Profile For Fantasy Characters
Character and Setting Integration Worksheet

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Critiquing

On Critiquing
OSC Critique by Orson Scott Card - Nov 17, 1998
Thoughts on Writing #12: Good Critique, Bad Critique. by Seanan McGuire
How to Be a Good Critiquer and Still Remain Friends by James Gunn
Useful & non-useful criticism by Kate Elliott at sfnovelists.com
The Different Types of Critiquers by Elissa D Cruz at livejournal.com
Thog's Masterclass -- This regular department of the sf newsletter Ansible enshrines gems of "differently good" prose from (mainly) science fiction and fantasy. It is to be assumed that the chosen selections are stuff which brutish Thog really likes.

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Description

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Writing Descriptively by Howard Andrew Jones

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Dialogue

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Forums

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Generators

List of generators for writing

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Genre

Genre
The Failure Of Genre Poetry by Bruce Boston
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About Five Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty Words by Samuel R. Delany

Glossaries and Lexicons

Writer's Glossary

Ideas - Or, Where do you get those ideas?

Lectures on Writing

http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2009/03/100-free-lectures-that-will-make-you-a-better-writer/

Manuscripts

Manuscript tagged links at Fritz's http://del.icio.us
Manuscript Preparation by Vonda N. McIntyre
Formatting Outlines and Manuscripts by Orson Scott Card - Mar 7, 2006

Manuscript Setup at eclectics.com
Generic Manuscript Setup at eclectics.com
Manuscript Format Checklist] by Robert J. Sawyer
Miss Snark confesses she is ..yes...compulsive by Miss Snark
Manuscript
Manuscript Format by John Gregory Betancourt at SFWA

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Markets

Market Research Links

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Methodology

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Narratology

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Outlines

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Formatting Outlines and Manuscripts by Orson Scott Card - Mar 7, 2006
To Outline or Not to Outline? by Timothy Hallinan

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Notes

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Plots

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http://delicious.com/fritz/plot
http://delicious.com/fritz/plot+writing
Plot
Plots at TvTropes
Great plots and their incarnations
Essay on Plot by Damon Knight
- Also here Plot by Damon Knight at The Rose & Thorn (a literary e-zine)
Essay on Plot by S. Andrew Swann at Genrewonk
Plotlines and Ideas by Orson Scott Card - Apr 26, 2000
Thirteen things to do when you run out of plot by Elizabeth Bear
Also see Wikipedia Plot (narrative) at Wikipedia
See Category:Plot at Wikipedia
Plots at TVTropes.org
Stupid Plot Tricks By Teresa Nielsen Hayden
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
Big list of RPG Plots / The Big List of RPG Plots
The "Basic" Plots in Literature
Share Plotting Templates (3-Act Structure, etc.) (forum)
Literary Devices - Plot at narriti.com
The law of conservation of detail
20 Master Plot Exercises
Script of T D Edge's third article for Starship Sofa, on Plot (part one)
Script of T D Edge's third article for Starship Sofa, on Plot (part two)
Plotting Without Fears by Alicia Rasley || sff.net
Let's talk about books by brown_betty at LiveJournal
9 Ways of Plotting a Novel by Darcy Pattison
4 More Plot Variations by Darcy Pattison

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Question and Answers

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Reading

Good writers are good readers

Reference

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Dictionary (e)
Thesaurus (e)
English Idioms at usingenglish.com
Free Dictionary, Thesaurus, and Encyclopedia at thefreedictionary.com
History, decade by decade from 1650 to 1990 at writersdreamtools.com
Idioms at wiktionary.org
Writer's Glossary
SF critique lexicon
See Category:Narratology at Wikipedia
Literary Terms by K. Wheeler
Dictionary of Literary Terms
The Jargon File for computer and hacking related terms.
The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
A Guide to Writing Well
http://www.tameri.com/write/write.html
http://www.tameri.com/edit/edit.html

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Resources

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Scenes

Writing Scenically by James Van Pelt at LiveJournal

Show vs. Tell

Short stories

On Establishing a Personal Canonical Collection of Short Stories by James Van Pelt
- Notes on establishing a personal canonical collection of short stories

Slush pile

http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/writing+slush

Tropes

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Words

The antimagic of crutch words

Worksheets

http://www.google.com/search?q=writing+worksheet

World Building

Iceberg style of worldbuilding
Building New Worlds by Stephen Baxter
Creating a Realistic Fantasy World by Penny Ehrenkranz
Creating New Alien Species by Lee Masterson
The Fully Realized World by Kate Elliott
The Language Construction Kit by Mark Rosenfelder
Worldbuilding
The link Worldbuilding Questions is broken, try all at web.archive.org by Patricia C. Wrede
Worldbuilding by S. Andrew Swann at Genrewonk
Worldbuilding v2 at Genrewonk by S. Andrew Swann
http://io9.com/tag/worldbuilding/
- http://io9.com/7-deadly-sins-of-worldbuilding-998817537
- http://io9.com/you-cant-speculate-about-technology-without-speculatin-1524576131
#Writing and #Worldbuilding Resources - Unleaded – Fuel for Writers

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Writers on Writing

Dwight V. Swain
(more...)

Writing Groups

Writing Wikis

http://springhole.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Miscellaneous Writing Resource Links

Genre Links: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Resources

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