Writing and Publishing
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Characterization
- Character Motivation and Plot
- Characters What Makes Them Great
- Getting to Know Your Characters
- Lessons Learned From Girl in the Arena
- Letting More Than One Character Learn the Lesson
- Naming Characters
- Never Take Advice From a Newbie
- Shallow Characters
Description
- Adjusting the Picture for Clarity
- Descriptive Overkill
- Graphic Description
- Graphic Contexts
- The Killer Detail
- Setting the Mood With Words and Rhythm
- World Building Through Metaphor
Dialogue
Internal Monologue
Motivation and Reaction
- Character Motivation and Plot
- Foreshadowing
- Jim Bell’s Q Factor
- Plot or Character ~ What Drives Your Story
- Reacting to Stimuli
Plot/Conflict
- Conflicted
- High Concept for Novelists
- High Concept for Kid’s Books
- Inciting Incidents
- Plot ~ Conflict
- Plot ~ Internal Conflict
- Plotting or Plodding ~ Your Choice
- Tie the Damsel to the Railroad Tracks
- Wooing the Reader From the Frying Pan to the Fire
POV
- Close Third Person POV
- Point of View ~ First Person Narrator
- POV ~ Who is Interpreting Events
- POV ~ Types of Narrators
Preaching in Fiction
Publishing
Reading
Revision
Technique
- Alliteration ~ Lessons Learned From Savvy
- Backstory
- Cutting the Garbage
- Passive Voice Defined
- Reportage, Info Dump, Author Intrusion
- She Tired of Him. She Wanted to Throw His Book Across the Room. He Scoffed at Her. He Went Right On, Starting Every Sentence With a Pronoun.
- Tense Issues
- When to Use Passive Voice in Fiction
Writers’ Resources
Offsite Links
On Writing
- Alexandra Sokoloff
- Atomic-Powered Titles
- Highlights’ Tips
- ICL Articles
- SCBWI
- Verla Kay
- Writers’ Village University
- Writing With Writers
Everything Agent-y
- Guide to Literary Agents
- Bent on Books
- Books and Such
- Caren Johnson
- Greenhouse Literary
- Jennifer Jackson
- Kristin Nelson
- Mary Kole
- Rachelle Gardner
- Slushpile Hell
- The Rejecter
- Upstart Crow
- Waxman Agency
Editor Bloggers