Writing

This is a page for items that you might find useful in your writing. At least, they’ve helped me.

Learning to Write

I wrote a post a while ago where I showed the online stuff that has helped me the most.

The Ultimate Fiction Writing Online Study Course

Free Downloads

Ideas For Getting Published – by Randy Ingermanson. Includes information about writing query letters, proposals, and finding an agent.

StoryWorld – by Randy Ingermanson. Create more a more engrossing world for your characters to live in. Great ideas, especially for fantasy/sci-fi writers.

Dialogue And The Art Of War – by Randy Ingermanson. Write better dialogue between your characters. The notion that it should sound like real conversation is crap.

How To Write A Fight Scene – by Randy Ingermanson. Make your fight scenes flow better. Make them more exiting. Make them better.

Creating Characters- by Randy Ingermanson. Give your characters a little extra life and make them much more interesting.

Software

Text Tree – this is my outline based text editor that I wrote to help me follow Randy Ingermanson’s “Snowflake Method” of writing a novel. It’s free now.

New Novelist – A popular software program for writing novels. (Affiliate link)

yWriter – freeware novel writing software from Simon Haynes, an author with three novels in print. I haven’t tried it out yet.

Websites

WriteSF.com – essays and information on writing science fiction and fantasy.

Write A Novel – A free online “how to” course by Crawford Killian.

Blogs

Advanced Fiction Writing – Blog of Randy Ingermansen. Has great tips.

Story Fix – Thriller writer Larry Brook’s blog on writing. Especially check out his posts on story structure.

Crawford Killian – Canadian writer and professor.

The Fiction Writer’s Journey -

Podcasts

Creative Writing Podcast @ American Writers – Some great audio essays on topics important to fiction writers.

Holly Lisle On Writing – She’s got some great ideas, but unfortunately she seems to have stopped doing these. However, there are five up for your listening enjoyment.

I Should Be Writing – A podcast by a wanna-be writer for wanna-be writers.

The Writing Show – “Where writing is always the show.”