Writing

A Jane Austen Afternoon | mmmandy | 8tracks

Save The Words

We've gotten so accustomed to thinking that ideas need to come about in new and exciting ways that we often neglect the utility of established paradigms.

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http://lifehacker.com/5684115/before-you-think-outside-the-box-think-inside-of-it

Use the Reverse Dictionary: NaNoWriMo Tip #18 - GalleyCat

http://suite101.com/article/how-to-plot-and-write-a-novel-a78629

How to Plot and Write a Novel: Plan Your Novel Writing with the Snowflake...

Many novelists mull over story ideas, letting them ripen and develop over time.

http://sesquipedaedalus.blogspot.com/2011/03/prettiest-words-all-of-them-23-pages.html

Prettiest Words, Alphabetized (1,027) Abattoir: a slaughterhouse; massacre Absinthe: wormwood liquor of a bright-green color

All of Them. 23 Pages. Could Always Use...

Popping Pimples on Paragraphs: 5 Things To Watch For | The World Remains...

Subject your prose to an up-close, rigorous inspection that goes sentence by sentence, word by word, to remove the "pimples" of excess words and bad constructions.

http://www.kittywumpus.net/blog/2011/03/04/popping-pimples-on-paragraphs-5-things-to-watch-for/

201 Ways to Arouse Your Creativity | Write to Done

Research

Exercises for Fiction Writers - Page 2

http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/assign/e50xs2.htm

English 50 – Intro to Creative Writing: Exercises for Story Writers More Exercises:

Read and Rate New Writers Online. Short Works & First Pages.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/creating-in-flow/201009/9-arbitrary-ways-get-your-writing-rejected

9 (Arbitrary) Ways to Get Your Writing Rejected | Psychology Today

When novelist Helen Simonson ( Major Pettigrew's Last Stand) was asked to help winnow entries for short story contests and literary journals, it was her turn to switch from seeking approval to giving it out.

Writing a novel? There's first-draft flow, and there's editing flow. And then there comes a time when you think you might be done, yet the manuscript is still not quite "there."

5 Ways Not to Write a Novel | Psychology Today

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/creating-in-flow/201002/5-ways-not-write-novel

Generators

Seventh Sanctum

6 Tips To Overcoming and Cure for Writer's Block

23 Websites that Make Your Writing Stronger

W e are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.