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Craft Books You need on Your Shelf

• Cherry Adairs' Writers' Bible
• Elements of Style - Strunk & White
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft - Stephen King
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions of Writing and Life - Lamott
• The Fire in Fiction - Donald Maass
• GMC: Goal, Motivation, and Conflict Debra Dixon
   

Visit Your High School English Class

• Amazing Links for Writers Just Starting Out
   

Punctuation and Grammar   

• Punctuation
• Fourteen Punctuation Marks in English Grammar
• Grammar 
• More Grammar 
• Grammar and Punctuation 
• Grammar, Punctuation and Style

Dictionary and Thesaurus

• Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus 
• Dictionary and Thesaurus 
• Another Dictionary 
• Urban Dictionary
• Reverse Dictionary 
• Writing Realistic Injuries 
• Online Graphical Dictionary   

Tips from the Greats

• Stephen King
• Ernest Hemingway
• George Orwell
• A Collection

Reference
 

• Reference
• Research Guide for Students (perfect for writers)
• Great Reference Site on almost Everything
• Another Great Reference Site
• How To Do Things from Celebrate Christmas to Get Ready For Sniper Training
•  How Everything Works
• How Stuff Works
• Information of Specific Cities In USA

Legal

• Links for Legal Resources

Law Enforcement 

• Law Enforcement Information
   

Crimes

• Criminal Investigation
• Forensics

FBI

• FBI

Military

• Resources for Military Community & Military Supporters
• Information on Military Everything 
• Worlds Military Rankings 
• Military Pay-scale 
• Military Dictionary  

Visit Some of Your Favorite Authors
 

• Cherry Adair 
• Anne Stuart 

 Writing Groups

• LIRW
• CTRWA
• OIRWA 
• RWA
• Savvy Authors

Editing the Story
 

• Revisions
• Rewriting Checklist
• 5 Things To Do To Fix Your Writing 
• Strunk's Element of Style Online
• Frequency Phrase Counter 
• Everything About English-Writing, Punctuation Grammar
• Critique Group Quiz 
• Why Your Editor Doesn't Love What Your Critique Group Does
• Critique Group ~ How to Form Your 
• What Your Freelance Editor Doesn't Tell You But Should 
• Proofreading Tips 
• Editing Tips
• 21 Part Checklist for Editing Your Book 
• Scribe Guide to Editing Your Book
• 25 Writing and Self Editing Tips
• Do It Yourself Edit
• Overused Words
• Revisions and Editing  
• Edit Like a NY Publisher
  

Sharing the Story

• Writing Your Pitch
• Elevator Pitch Part 1
  Elevator Pitch Part 2
  Getting Your Pitch to Focus
• Find an Agent
• Publishers Weekly  
• Self-Publishing Tips and Resources
• Why Editor Dislikes What Critique Group Loves
  

Marketing and Social Media    
 

• Tag Line  
• Tips of Building an online Following
• Social Media Marketing
• Guide to Digital Marketing 
• How to Find Free Images to Use
• Sued for Using Pictures
• The Dreaded Reading
• Create a Social Media Posting Schedule
• Working With Social Media
• Increase Your Facebook Page Engagement 
• Promote Unpublished work on your website
• What NOT to post on Social Media 
• Promote and Market Your Book
• How to Market Your EBook 
• Book Promotion Count Down List

Query
  

• Formatting Your Query Letter  
• Query Letter 
• Parts of a good Query
  

Synopsis
 

• Synopsis
• One Page Synopsis
• 5 Steps to the Perfect Synopsis
• Writing A Novel Synopsis
  

 Always research organizations you deal with, whether listed here or elsewhere

Getting it Done 

• My Writing Calendar (This is a download) 
• Making Time to Write
• Organizing Your Time 
• Creative Procrastination 
• Stop Procrastination 
• Avoid Writers Block

Hear Your Story 

• Text to Speech

Miscellaneous Writing 

• Author's Voice 
• Building a Better Voice
• Author Bio 
• Where are you on the road to Publication?
• Questions Agents Ask
• Tips for Self Publishing & Self Promotion 
• Supercharge Your Writing   
• Why Writing Makes You a Badass
• What To Have On Your Website
• Be Your Own Writing Teacher 

I've got Ideas

• Brainstorming
• Brainstorming Techniques
• Coming up with Ideas
• Finding Ideas In Two Steps 

Writing the Story 

• Active Vs. Passive Voice
• Guide To Storytelling 
• Deadly First Page Sin 
• Random Generators for Writers
• More Random Generators
• Writing Better ~ 7 Instant Fixes
• Understanding the Process of Story Telling 
• Getting Started 
• Write the Story Using The Snowflack Method
• The Basic Story
• Expanding the Basic Story 
• Writing Mistakes
• Word Counter
• Points of your Story 

Emotions 

• Use Brain Triggers 
• Layering Emotions
• Heavy Emotions
• Show Don't Tell Emotions 
• Words To Describe Feelings
• Negative Feeling Words
• Characters Emotions
• Physical Emotional Response
• Stages of Grief
• Emotions and Moods

Location/Setting

• Importance of Location
• Settings 
• Setting
• Make Your Setting More 

Characters

• My Character Chart (This is a download) 
• Character Names
• Character Questionnaire
• Create Compelling Characters 
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces
• 10 Ways to Make Everyone Root for Your Amoral Protagonist 
• Make Characters Stronger
• Character Chart 
• Character Motivation
• Protagonist  
• Characters w/ Tragic and Traumatic Back-story   
• Characters w/ Phobias 
• Character Traits  
• Careers for Personality Types
• Plot Driven vs Character Driven Story
• Writing Your Antagonist
• Using A Character Web
• More on Characters 

Plot

• Cherry Adair's Plotting by Color
• Plot Generator
• Using The Snowflake Method
• Character Driven/Plot Driven 
• The Hero's Journey, A Path To Plotting
• 10 Plot Problems
• Plot and Story
• Killer Plot Twist 
• Laying Clues and Adding Twists
• Bones of your Story
• Scene List 

Tension 

• Create and Heighten Conflict
• Create Inner Conflict 
• Creating Tension
• Build Tension & Heighten Stakes
• Tighten your Tension
• Create and Sustain Suspense 
• Add Tension During Revisions
• Ten Tips to Increase Tension
• Eight Steps to Create Tension
• Uneven Balance Kills Tension 

Humor 

• Adding Humor To Your Story  
• Seven Tips 
• Six Tips 
• Secret of Writing Funny 

Point of View 

• Deep POV
• More Deep POV 
• Basic POV
• Male POV
• Deep POV Checklist 

Show vs Tell 

• Show Don't Tell Worksheet for Kids  
• Show Don't Tell  
• Show Don't Tell
• Show Don't Tell in Every Section of Your Writing

Dialogue  

• Dialogue Tools
• Real Dialogue
• Dialogue ~ Make your Characters Unique
• Dialogue to Distinguish between Characters 
• Dialogue
• More on Dialogue 
• Enhance Dialogue
• Dialogue Tags
• Purpose of Dialogue 1
• Purpose of Dialogue 2
• Purpose of Dialogue 3
• Advice on Dialogue 
• Get Rid of Dialogue Tags
• Use Body Language, Action and Internal Thought in Dialogue
• Body Language in Dialogue

Scenes

• Writing the Perfect Scene
• Fitting Scenes Together 
• Fire Up Your Scenes
• Scenes

Pace 

• Keep Your Story Moving Part 1
• Keep Your Story Moving Part 2
• Pacing Tips 
• Sagging Middle
• Pacing
• Pace Yourself (This is a pdf file)
• Master Pacing 

All the needed Extras

• Layering and Adding Texture   
• Story Threads