Articles
Writing Exercises
- 12 Exercises for Improving Dialogue
- Fifteen Craft Exercises for Writers
- Autobiographical Writing: Childhood
Revising Your Novel
- Read through the first draft
- Perform a light edit
- Create a chronology
- Edit as you read
- Create an information guide
- Create a new roadmap for revision
- Add and revise scenes
- Edit with an eye towards continuity
- Have someone read and review your novel
- Start over
Short Story Writing
- Short Story Writing Project: How to Participate
- Short Story Writing Project: What is a Short Story?
- Short Story Writing Project: Clear-cut versus obscure
- Short Story Writing Project: How do you get started?
- Short Story Writing Project: Beware of the Twilight Zone Ending
- Short Story Writing Project: To make a long story short
- Short Story Writing Project: Writing about real life events
- Short Story Writing Project: Using Articles for Ideas
- Short Story Writing Project: The first draft
- Short Story Writing Project: The Second Draft
- Short Story Writing Project: Narrative Structure
- Short Story Writing Project: Fleshing out your world
- Short Story Writing Project: The Law of Diminishing Randomness
A Career in Technical Writing
- A Career in Technical Writing: The beginning of a new series
- A Career in Technical Writing: Life as a wannabee
- A Career in Technical Writing: Two dates to the prom
- A Career in Technical Writing: The fax about outsourcing
- A Career in Technical Writing: A strange new world
- A Career in Technical Writing: Life as a newbie
- A Career in Technical Writing: Workaround
- A Career in Technical Writing: Last Contractor Standing
- A Career in Technical Writing: Reversals
- A Career in Technical Writing: End games
- A Career in Technical Writing: End of Part One
- A Career in Technical Writing: Beach Time
- A Career in Technical Writing: Planes, Trainers and Automobiles
- A Career in Technical Writing: By the time I get to Phoenix
- A Career in Technical Writing: Bright Lights, Big City
- A Career in Technical Writing: Amanda
Technical Writing
A general guide to how to gain skills, experience and jobs as a technical writer.
- Overview
- What a Technical Writer Writes
- A Technical Writer’s Skill Set
- Desktop Publishing Tools
- Education
- How to Find Technical Writing Jobs
Character Building
A guide to the different ways that you can research and develop background information for your fictional characters.
- Defining Characters By Their Roles
- A Day in the Life
- Possessions
- Biography
- Interview
- Brainstorming
- Building a Character Using Multiple Perspectives
- 12 Questions
- Basing Characters on Real People
- Character Bio Sheets
Essay Writing
- A Totally Overboard Guide to Essay and Paper Writing on the Web
- Having Your Say – Writing Personal Essays
- Perfecting Your Essay Writing Skills
- A List of Essay Writing Don’ts
- Read it Out Loud
- Autobiographical Writing: Childhood
Short Story Writing
- What is a short story?
- How do you get started?
- The first draft
- Clear-cut versus obscure
- Beware of the Twilight Zone Ending
- To make a long story short
- Writing about real life events
- Using articles for ideas
- Narrative structure
- The second draft
- Fleshing out your world
- The Law of Diminishing Randomness
Character Building
- Defining Characters By Their Roles
- A Day in the Life
- Possessions
- Biography
- Interview
- Brainstorming
- Building a Character Using Multiple Perspectives
- 12 Questions
- Basing Characters on Real People
- Character Bio Sheets
Revising Your Novel
- Read through the first draft
- Perform a light edit
- Create a chronology
- Edit as you read
- Create an information guide
- Create a new roadmap for revision
- Add and revise scenes
- Edit with an eye towards continuity
- Have someone read and review your novel
- Start over
Exercises
Craft / Tips
- Want to Write a Novel Badly? Here’s How!
- Read It Out Loud
- Lean stories get published
- Earn Your Ending
- Explaining the Unreliable Narrator
- Dialog as a Tool for Communication and Division
- Creating Memorable Characters
- Building Characters Through Adversity
- Overcoming Barriers to Self Expression
- More on Self Expression: Keep writing!
- What is an Allegory?
General Articles
- Want to Write a Novel Badly? Here’s How!
- Six Ways to Jump Start a Stalled Novel
- Six Tips for Writing Descriptions
- Six Quick Tips For Starting Your Story
- Six Quick Tips on Character Names
- Formatting a Short Story for Submission to a Potential Publisher
- How do you write a role-playing character biography?
Publishing Articles
- The Rise of the Literary Paperback
- Poetry Dot Shaft
- The Tricky Art of Self-Publishing
- Who Should Self Publish
- Clarification About Self Publishing
- Lean stories get published
- Wronging Writers: Don’t Get Taken
- How to Find Publishing Industry Jobs
- Formatting a Short Story for Submission to a Potential Publisher
