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102 Resources for Fiction Writers
Are you still stuck for ideas for National Novel Writing Month? Or are you working on a novel at a more leisurely pace? Here are 102 resources on Character, Point of View, Dialogue, Plot, Conflict, Structure, Outlining, Setting, and World Building, plus some links to generate Ideas and Inspiration.
CHARACTER, POINT OF VIEW, DIALOGUE
The Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test
Priming the idea pump (A character checklist shamlessly lifted from acting)
Handling a Cast of Thousands – Part I: Getting to Know Your Characters
Establishing the Right Point of View: How to Avoid “Stepping Out of Character”
How to Start Writing in the Third Person
Web Resources for Developing Characters
What are the Sixteen Master Archetypes?
Fiction Writer’s Character Chart
Fiction Writer’s Character Chart
Villains are People, Too, But …
Top 10 Tips for Writing Dialogue
Advantages, Disadvantages and Skills (character traits)
How to Write a Character Bible
Character Development Exercises
All Your Characters Sounds the Same — And They’re Not a Hivemind!
Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Difference for Successful Fiction
Family Echo (family tree website)
Interviewing Characters: Follow the Energy
100 Character Development Questions for Writers
Lineage Chart Layout Generator
PLOT, CONFLICT, STRUCTURE, OUTLINE
How to Write a Novel: The Snowflake Method
Effectively Outlining Your Plot
Conflict and Character within Story Structure
Ideas, Plots & Using the Premise Sheets
Creating Conflict and Sustaining Suspense
Plunge Right In … Into Your Story, That Is!
Fiction Writing Tips: Story Grid
Tips for Creating a Compelling Plot
The Thirty-six (plus one) Dramatic Situations
The Evil Overlord Devises a Plot: Excerpt from Stupid Plotting Tricks
The Hero’s Journey: Summary of the Steps
Outline Your Novel in Thirty Minutes
SETTING, WORLD BUILDING
The Art of Description: Eight Tips to Help You Bring Your Settings to Life
Creating the Perfect Setting – Part I
An Impatient Writer’s Approach to Worldbuilding
Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions
Character and Setting Interactions
Creating Fantasy and Science Fiction Worlds
Maps Workshop — Developing the Fictional World Through Mapping
IDEAS, INSPIRATION
Solve Your Problems Simply by Saying Them Out Loud
Writing Inspiration, or Sex on a Bicycle
Creative Acceleration: 11 Tips to Engineer a Productive Flow
The Seven Major Beginner Mistakes
Complete Your First Book with these 9 Simple Writing Habits
Free Association, Active Imagination, Twilight Imaging
Story Starters and Idea Generators
REVISION
One-Pass Manuscript Revision: From First Draft to Last in One Cycle
Revising Your Novel: Read What You’ve Written
Writing 101: So You Want to Write a Novel Part 3: Revising a Novel
TOOLS and SOFTWARE
My Writing Nook (online text editor; free)
Bubbl.us (online mind map application; free)
Freemind (mind map application; free; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)
XMind (mind map application; free; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)
Liquid Story Binder (novel organization and writing software; free trial, $45.95; Windows, portable)
Scrivener (novel organization and writing software; free trial, $39.95; Mac)
SuperNotecard (novel organization and writing software; free trial, $29; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)
yWriter (novel organization and writing software; free; Windows, Linux, portable)
JDarkRoom (minimalist text editor; free; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)
AutoRealm (map creation software; free; Windows, Linux with Wine)
screaming
Reblogging for convenience sake.
Things to remember for NaNo …
Still not sure if I wanna do NaNo again this year.
Can’t remember if I’ve reblogged this before. I’m certain I have but it can’t hurt, eh?
(Source: ruthlesscalculus)
9th November 2012
Reblogged From notesonascandal
Notes: 80268
I actually finished a story today. Okay that was a lie. I didn’t finish the whole story, that seems like a daunting task. But I finished a section of a story. An entire three pages! That’s crazy. I honestly haven’t written or finished anything in so long that this is a proud accomplishment. Instead of just leaving off mid-sentence and having the document glare at me every time I look at my desktop I know have something to work with and work from. The story is going somewhere! Characters are starting to develop. The plot is going somewhere (eventually)! I’m excited. Maybe I’ll actually flesh out an entire short story…but let’s not get ahead of ourselves here. I finished three pages. Baby steps.
Inspired. I gotta fucking write. Release all the tension that’s brewing inside of me.
“Snacks of the great scribblers” by Wendy MacNaughton
Walt Whitman began the day with oysters and meat, while Gustave Flaubert started off with what passed for a light breakfast in his day: eggs, vegetables, cheese or fruit, and a cup of cold chocolate.
I have to write a four page paper on one, (probably pejorative) polyvalent, word.
……
I want to write about “hipster”. My girlfriend told me that was very hipster of me (I don’t see how). BUT ANYWAY. I feel like it would be an interesting topic. But difficult, we have to write about the word itself and how it changes across contexts, and we have to try not to talk about the concept itself.
I mean I could just play it safe and write about dyke.
BUT THAT WOULD BE SO CLICHE OF ME
ugh
tumblr, you guys are experts on this sort of thing.
wut do?
Haven’t written a poem in like a year. That’s ending tonight.
Hopefully?
Probably going to get too frustrated and quit, LET’S SEE!
Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language (by RogersCreations)
The writer in me absolutely loves this.
