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Writing Advice
The 5 Biggest Fiction Writing Mistakes (& How to Fix Them)
5 Things Novelists Can Learn From Screenwriters
David Morrell On the Key to Settings
What to Look for When Editing Your Manuscript
Copyright Litigation Blog: Epigraphs, Fair Use and Poetry
Purdue OWL® - Online Writing Lab - Purdue University
Stephen King's Top 13 Writing Tips
Word Count: Why Your Book Should Be This Long — Tiffany Hawk, Writing Coach
Books
Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer by J. Michael Straczynski
The Complete Book of Scriptwriting by J. Michael Straczynski
On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft by Stephen King
The Elements of Style - Wikipedia
Writing Tools
Scrivener | Literature & Latte
The Publishing Industry, Agents, and Editors
WRITER BEWARE® by Victoria Strauss
Jane Friedman | Reporting on the Publishing Industry
How to Write a Query Letter That Gets Manuscript Requests
Questions to Ask Your Publisher Before You Sign
Manuscript Format: How to Format a Novel, with Examples (2024)
destigmatizing self-publishing - by Leigh Stein
Association of American Literary Agents - AALA
Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
Editorial Freelancers Association
The Official Manuscript Wish List Website
Events, Contests, and Symposia
Writer in Residence | Mesa Public Library
2024 Unpublished Contest Deadline 9/20/2024
2024 Adaptation Contest Deadline 9/20/2024
Symposium, from Pipeline Artists - A year-round conference in the arts.
Independent Publisher Book Awards
Author Quotes
Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first act that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third act it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.
— Anton Chekhov
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.
— Stephen King
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
— Oscar Wilde