Genre Writing
Historical Fiction Writing and Research
Five Hundred Years of the Vulgar Tongue
1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue Historical Thesaurus of English Language!: Five Hundred Years of the Vulgar Tongue Accuracy and Authenticity in Historical Fiction Research: Neanderthals Fantasy
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Mystery/Crime/ThrillersRomance |
Writing Consciously & Diversely
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Writing With Color: a blog dedicated to writing and resources centered on racial & ethnic diversity.
7 Casually Racist Things That White Authors Do Writing the Other Dismantling the White Default (describing only people of color by race and not white people) Fat Fiction: Normalizing Fat Bodies in Literature (PDF Download) |
Rape as a Plot Device
Writing Women Characters as Human Beings GLAAD Media Reference Guide - reference for writing LGBTQ people's stories fairly and accurately Racial Slur Database The Radical Copyeditor's Style Guide for Writing About Transgender People Fantasy's Othering Fetish |
The Craft of Writing
Empathy: What 'Show, Don't Tell' Really Means in Storytelling by James B. Parker
Using sentence length to create tension by Louise Harnby
Never State What You Can Imply by Jane Friedman
Weak Sentence Construction by CS Lakin
Parallel Sentence Construction by Purdue Owl
Realistic Knife Fighting by Dan Koboldt
Body Parts Acting on Their Own (My eyes wandered the room, looking for my date.) via KM Weiland
Using sentence length to create tension by Louise Harnby
Never State What You Can Imply by Jane Friedman
Weak Sentence Construction by CS Lakin
Parallel Sentence Construction by Purdue Owl
Realistic Knife Fighting by Dan Koboldt
Body Parts Acting on Their Own (My eyes wandered the room, looking for my date.) via KM Weiland
Characters |
Point of View |
A Study of Subtext |
Languages |
Tools |
The Technical Stuff |
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Aeon Timeline: Visual Timeline Software for Creative Writers
The Bookalyser: analyses text for inconsistencies, errors and poor style Macros Overview NaturalReader: this app reads your manuscript out loud, which can help you catch errors Dictionary of American Regional English |
Querying Agents |
Publishing and Marketing |
Sites/Blogs to FollowBlurbs/Back Cover Copy |
Self-Publishing Checklist from Jane Friedman
Book Marketing Plan Checklist The Basic Components of an Author Website Freepik.com: free vectors, PSD, Icons, and photos Unsplash.com: beautiful free photos A Guide to Facebook Image Sizes Create free promo graphics with Canva or PicMonkey Social Media Image Sizes Remove the background from pictures - Remove.bg |
