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

World Building in Fantasy

Fantasy's Othering Fetish

Mystery/Crime/Thrillers 

Crime Writing Tips

Romance

Romance Tropes

How to Write an Irresistible Romance Course

How to Create Conflict In A Love Story According to 4 Bestselling Authors

External and Internal Conflicts: Examples and Tips

Writing Consciously & Diversely

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

Characters

Point of View

Give Each Character Their Own Body Language from Writers Helping Writers

The Resource Mother Lode: How to Write Emotional Wounds

Third Person Omniscient and Third Person Limited: The Essentials

How to Define Your Character's Unique Voice

How to Seamlessly Shift Between POV Characters

A Study of Subtext

Languages

Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway

Dictionary of the Scots Language

Tools

The Technical Stuff

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

Track Changes Tutorial

How to Punctuate Dialogue in Fiction

Numbers in Fiction

List of hotkeys

20-Minute Macro Course

Using Macros to Edit and Polish

Querying Agents

Publishing and Marketing

Agent Querying Advice from Editor Lisa Poisso

Sites/Blogs to Follow

Writers Helping Writers (Angela Ackerman)

Helping Authors Become Writers (KM Weiland)

Blurbs/Back Cover Copy

How to Write an Irresistible Book Blurb in 5 Easy Steps

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

Suggested Reading