It's All About The Links, Bout The Links, No Filler
It's All About The Links, Bout The Links, No Filler
This is the post with the links to all the past writing articles by topic.
Hi, everyone! I’m going to try to update this post every month, and it’s a way to go to links by topic. I’m feeling vaguely heroic for doing this, thus the photo up there. ^^^
If you go to archive, you can see the list of everything, presumably by date.
If you go to new, you can see the list by date.
This bad boy is more of a list by topic for just writing posts.
And the last time it was organized was February 2023. It’s super tedious to compile, but hopefully, it’s worth it!
Writing Life
Ideas aren't the sexy gods we think they are. Gasp!
Chagall Advice: Do Not Be Afraid
Being Quiet Isn't the Same As Being Timid
The Power of Personal Narrative
Is there a time a writer should say, "Eh, good enough?"
Editors Aren't Your Enemy, Writers
Being Self Deprecating For the Win?
I Don't Know How To Fangirl Even About Writers and Some Advice
Not So Wild and Crazy Writing Advice
Using the Tools of Actors to Be a Better Writer
Chapters
The Role and Length of Chapters
Writing Transitions Between Story Elements
Hooking Your Reader
SIX QUICK HINTS ABOUT HOW TO KEEP YOUR READERS READING
How to Begin Your Story So it's Scrumptious
Cause and Effect
Cause and Effect in Novel Writing
Does Your Story Make Sense?:Cause and Effect is The Super Hero Structure of Story
Cause and Effect Is A Powerful Tool
Voice
Mixing Up Your Sentence Lengths Like the Sultry Writer You Are
ALL ABOUT VOICE IN YOUR WRITING
The Power of Silence In Writing
WOULD AN AI DETECTOR THINK YOUR WRITING IS HUMAN? Maybe? Maybe not? And should you want it to?
Show vs Tell
Super Important Writing Tip For When You Think Your Story Is a Little Boring
Writing Isn't About Being Clever; It's About Story
Don't Be Boring: Show Me, Don't Tell It To Me
Novel Endings
Writer Mid-Week Crisis: All About Endings
Writing Action and Fight Scenes
Don't Make Your Readers Bad Swoon
Zombie Hamsters and Action Scenes
Does Your Form Match Your Function?
Focus on Tension In Your Story
The Tension Interview with Steven Wedel, He Who Writes Erotic Werewolf Novels and So Much More
Make Your Story Tense, Plus Editor Andrew Karre
How To Create Tension In Your Novel
Writing In The Tension Into Your Story Interview with Author Mark Del Franco
Random Grammar Help
Astonishers. Gaspers. Screamers. What your exclamation point addiction or avoidance says about you.
Weather vs Whether. It’s sexy to know the difference.
PROS AND CONS OF PRESENT AND PAST TENSE
To e.g. or to i.e., that is the question.
Ah, Ahh, Aah, Awe, Aw, or Ah Is That Underwear
Writing Character
Showing Your Character's Emotions: Let's be fancy and talk about interiority
Making Your Writing Better: Character Interiority and in sentence suspense
Showing Character's Interior Lives
Why Do We Think There's Only One Way: Character interiority and natural order of emotion
The Big Scary Fear Monster Is Really the Rock Star of Your Novel
Character Development and Novel Structures are Creepy Besties. Here’s why.
The Three Main Ways Your Character Changes
Desire vs danger, it's what your story is about
How To Be Specific About Yearning To Make Your Reader Care About The Character
How and To Make Your Characters Flawed As F And Why You Should
A Cool Exercise About Character Development and Awesome Links
Backstory
Writing Exceptional Characters Part One Backstory
The Three Uses of Backstory and Some Good Rules
Oh Baby, Look at that Backstory and Goals
Scenes
How to find good disasters for your scenes
It is Super Natural: Four Basic Elements To Your Story
The sexy part of story structure: Scene and Sequel
Mid-Level Plotting. Yeah, it's cool. I swear
Scene and sequel explained by the masters at explaining scene and sequel
Putting Scene and Sequel Together
Talking Heads Are Bad (not the band) So How Do You Imagine Yourself In a Scene.
THREE BIG PIECES TO BUILDING BETTER STORY VIA SCENE AND SEQUEL
Let's talk scene and sequel and story pacing: Scene structure is sexy, damn it
Dialogue
Camper Wisdom and Dialogue Hints
Don’t Be Chunky – Put Your Dialogue in Paragraphs
Listening to Butt Faces and Writing Dialogue
Exposition
Examples of Exposition Ruining a Story
How to Conquer The Beast Called Exposition
Don't Chunk: The Key to Overcoming Bad Exposition
Episodic Fiction
What it means and how to deal with it if you aren't in the episodic fan club
All About Episodic Fiction Part 2
Revision
Writing Style
Why Use Writing Prompts and Free Write?
Point of View
A Quick Point of View Overview
Mood and Atmosphere
Let's set the mood, part two: getting atmosphere in your story
Putting Mood and Atmosphere in Your Fiction
Pacing
The Demon Named White Room Syndrome and How to Exorcise It From Your Story
Some of the Round Ups. There are usually some prompts in here, too.
Being Quiet Isn't the Same As Being Timid
Putting Mood and Atmosphere in Your Fiction
Don't Be Boring: Show Me, Don't Tell It To Me
Cause and Effect Is A Powerful Tool