THE BASICS
Glossary of Publishing Terms
Book Bibles And How to Write Them
BEFORE YOU WRITE
Plotting Beat Sheet (get your villains and twists first!)
Finding A Blockbuster Plot by Graeme Shimmin
How To Draft A Novel
Finding A Story Idea You Love
Setting Goals For Writing And Publication
ALL ABOUT FAST DRAFTING
How to Write 10k A Day by Rachel Bach
Magical Cookies Scenes by Susan Dennard
How To Write a Book In Three Days by Michael Morecock (a short book but still…)
The Master Fiction Plot by Lester Dent
A Deep POV by Wendy Sparrow
Can We Be Honest (Why do a fast draft at all?)
NaNoWriMo BOOT CAMP
Day 1: Establish a Baseline
Day 2: Finding a Plot
3: The Antagonist
Day 4: The Protagonist
Day 5: Motivation and Inspiration
Day 6: Set The Stage
THE EPIC PLOTTING SESSIONS (for fixing lost or broken plots and not letting them break in the first place)
Plotting Session 1: Structure
Plotting Session 2: Beat Sheets
Plotting Session 3: The Epic Plotting Video
A Beat Sheet of Your Own – Copy/Paste to your computer
THE DOWN AND DIRTY DETAILS
Write a First Chapter That Gets Read
Subplots And How To Write Them
How To Write Endings by C.S. Lakin
Voice And Your Voice As An Author
Writer’s Block And How To Handle It
GENRE TIPS AND TRICKS (Romance)
Stages of Love: Lost and Rough-Hewn Spears
Stages of Love: Attraction and Rejection
Stages of Love: Commitment and Happily Ever After
Writing Realistic Relationships (the basics)
WHEN YOU FINALLY FINISH
Grande Finales by C.S. Lakin
Writing a Killer Logline by Graeme Shimmin
The Essential Editing Checklist For Fiction
How To Write Yourself An Editing Letter
Query Examples
How To Write A Synopsis
What To Do Before You Hire An Editor Or Write A Query
Twitter Pitches (a workshop with examples)
How To Write A Query
OTHER USEFUL LINKS
Getting ready to query? Searching for an agent? Read these before you move ahead!
* AgentQuery (for researching agents)
* Duotrope (for researching short story and novella markets)
* An Open Letter to Authors by Daisy Frost
* Writing Habits of Successful Authors by Alan Rinzler
* 3 Things To Do Now To Prepare For Published Authorhood
* Diagnosis of Isuckitis and Igottaedititis
* Genre War
* Glossary of Publishing Terms
* 7 Deadly Publishing Sins by Holly Root
* Things to Avoid in a Query Letter by Janet Reid
* Query Do’s and Don’ts
* Query Shark with Janet Reid
* Self-Publishing Math
* The Pros and Cons of the 99cent Price Point
* E-publishing 101
* The Emotion Thesaurus from the Bookshelf Muse
* The Character Traits Thesaurus from the Bookshelf Muse
* The Setting Thesaurus from the Bookshelf Muse (see if you can find my entry!)
* Joss Whedon’s Advice For Getting Things Done
* Handling The Fear Behind Writer’s Block by Susan Dennard
* Short List of Short Story Publishers
* Writer’s Block, Depression, and Identifying the Problem
* How to do a Hard Launch – for Indie Authors
*I will add to the list as time goes by.
** If the author is not listed next to the link the author is Liana Brooks.