Jim Macdonald On Writing
- Learn Writing with Uncle Jim
- This is Jim Macdonald on, well, pretty much everything about writing fiction.
- Index to Learn Writing with Uncle Jim
- This is an index to Macdonald's topics.
- Uncle Jim Undiluted
- This is an index to just the posts by Macdonald.
- A list of Macdonald's assignments
- Only the assignments are listed.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden On Writing
- TNH on "Worldcon Going."
- A survival guide to cons, especially Worldcons.
- TNH on "Cover Letters."
- Everything you need to know.
- TNH on "Varieties of Insanity Known to Affect Authors"
- These are all authentic descriptions.
- TNH on "Slushkiller."
- Everything you need to know but are afraid to think about, never mind ask.
- TNH on "Namarie Sue"
- A meditation on Mary Sue/Marty Stu characters.
- "Everything You Wanted to Know About Literary Agents"
- Neil Gaiman asks TNH to tell his readers All About Agents.
Laura Mixon on Writing
- Damon Knight's Damon Knight's "Plot" from Creating Short Fiction.
- A "brilliant essay on plot" recommended by Laura Mixon.
- Laura Mixon's "The Care And Feeding Of Your Beast"
- Laura Mixon on "the process of writing."
Recommended
- Stephen King on "The Writing Life."
- This is, well, Stephen King on the life of a writer.
- Diagramming Sentences
- One way to look at English grammar.
- Pirate Monkey: a Mary Sue Comic
- Harry Potter comic; be sure to click through to the pages after page 1.
- The American Heritage Dictionary
- This dictionary not only has the usual definitions, it has usage notes, and proto Indo-European Roots