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  • About Me
  • Places to Visit~ Writing
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  • Things that Inspire Me
  • My Library
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  • Find Me

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Places to Visit - Writing


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

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