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Readings, Sites and Other Stuff for the Writing Hurts Like Hell Workshop
Really Neat and Useful Sites on the Internet:
Preditors & Editors (lists of publications, agents, forums, review sites, jobs, and other resources for writers) This site lists warnings and
recommendations for publications, agents and editing services. Always check here before contacting a fee-based service.
http://www.anotherealm.com/prededitors
Scribe & Quill (ezine with articles of interest to writers, sign up for free newsletter)
http://www.scribequill.com
Dictionary.com (access to online dictionaries, thesaurus, and other grammar-related resources)
http://dictionary.reference.com
Work For Writers (free writers’ group with free – and highly useful – newsletter)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WorkForWriters
Rose & Thorn literary ezine (a literary ezine with free newsletter, bulletin boards)
http://www.theroseandthornezine.com
Projected Letters (a literary ezine)
http://www.projectedletters.com
Zoetrope Studios (a free writers’ community and workshop started by Francis Ford Cupppola)http://www.zoetrope.com
About.com section for writers (lots of useful links)
http://fictionwriting.about.com/?once=true&
Overcoming Writer’s Block (from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_block.html
The Writer’s Block (from SFF.net)
http://www.sff.net/people/LisaRC
Creating Characters
Creating Believable Characters (from Scribendi) Very short, very true.http://www.scribendi.com/advice/creating_believable_characters.en.html
Settting/Scene/Senses
A short article on sensory information in fiction:
http://www.uoflife.com/wc/creative/sensory.htm
About.com’s Creative Writing for Teens section on scene:
http://teenwriting.about.com/library/weekly/aa111102g.htm
Randy Ingermanson’s “Disturbing Your Universe” web site (Writing the Perfect Scene):
http://www.rsingermanson.com/html/perfect_scene.html
Fiction Factor Magazine, “Conflict in Fiction” by Tina Morgan:
http://www.fictionfactor.com/articles/conflict.html
Plotting
Article from FictionFactor:
http://www.fictionfactor.com/guests/indexplot.html
Lesson from fiction writing course at ArtsEdge:
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2230
The top 10 plotting problems
http://www.sff.net/people/alicia/10prob.htm
Internet Public Library’s basic plots in literature:
http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/plotFARQ.html
The 36 Plots (additional detail on one of the plot types at the IPL):
http://www.rpglibrary.org/articles/storytelling/36plots.html
Dialogue
Dialogue Tips from Pam McCutcheon:
http://www.pammc.com/dialogue.htm
“Good Dialogue,” The Editor Said from Fiction Factor:
http://www.fictionfactor.com/guests/dialogue.html
Action
3 Tips for Writing Successful Flashbacks from WritersDigest.com:
http://www.writersdigest.com/articles/column/kress/flashbacks.asp
Writing Action from Elfwood Tutorials:
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/thewriting/dra2action/dra2action.html
Voice
“Putting Voice Into A Paper” from Writer’s Web:
http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/voice.html
“Finding Your Voice” from Write101.com:
http://www.write101.com/lethamfind.htm
Point-of-View
Scroll down to point number 4:
http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/creative/shortstory/#view
Revising and Editing
Reading and Revision from About.com:
http://teenwriting.about.com/library/weekly/aa111102k.htm
From Anglefire
http://www.angelfire.com/wi/writingprocess/editing.html
Suggested Books
Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande (Putnam, 1981, ISBN 0874771641)
The Elements of Style by Strunk and E.B. White (Allyn & Bacon, 2000, ISBN 020530902X)
You can buy it at any bookstore or from Amazon, or get it free online at:
http://www.bartleby.com/141
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