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Table of Contents

Beginnings
Characters
Description
Dialogue
Editing
Fiction
Genre Articles
Ideas
Language
Method
Non Fiction
Novels
Pacing
Plot
Point of View
Realism
Scriptwriting
Theme
Writer's Block
Writing Tips
Other Useful Articles

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Beginnings

Getting Beginnings Right
How do I start?
How to start your story!
Presenting your Presentation: Titling your Title!
Presenting... Your Story

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Characters

5 Tips for Realistic Characters
Advanced Character Development
An Inordinately Long Article On Writing Sexual Orientation
Antagonists and Villains
Basic Character Development and Dialogue
Cal's Soapbox #3
Character, Action, Idea
Character Development Workshop: Active Modes of Development
Character Development Workshop: Complex Modes of Development
Character Development Workshop: Unlocking Your Characters
Character Flaws
Character Interaction
Creating the Perfect Secondary Character
Creating Villains
Feminine Characters
5 Tips For Fantastic Characters
Good and Bad
Hero Clichés to Avoid
The Importance of Names
Motivation - Why'dja Do That?
Mysterious Characters
PTSD and Characters
Round Characters and Appropriate Dialouge
SLAM DOWN!
Villain Cliches to Avoid
Writing a Character From a People Group Not Your Own
Writing Rounded Characters

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Description

Atmosphere In and Out
Breathing emotion into scenes
Description
Description
Do You Smell That?
Do You Smell That? #2
Histrionics
Not Getting Carried Away with Descriptions
Quick Course: Descriptive Writing
Scenery Descriptions
Show and Tell
Unneeded Information

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Dialogue

Bored of Said?
Cutting back on 'said'
How to Get Rid of Talking Heads
Leading Your Scene by the Coattail of Dialog
Linguistics and Dialogue, Intro
Linguistics and Dialogue, Application
Natural-Sounding Dialogue and Fantasy Accents
Said
Writing Good Dialogue

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Editing

Editing Your Work
Major Revision in Novels
Listening to Music While Editing
Sentence Structure

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Fiction

5 Steps to Create Tension and Suspense in Fiction Narratives
Adding Dimensions (2) -- Action Sequences
Dramatic Structure: The Five Essential Parts of Fiction
On "Happy Endings"
Writing about Societies
Serious Work

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Genre Articles

A Clueless Writer's Guide to Writing Romance
Basic Overview on Writing Historical Fiction
Cal's Soapbox #5
On Writing a Dystopia
Something Wicked This Way Comes
What NOT to do in detective fiction

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Ideas

Building A Story
Building a Fantastic Story
The Nature of Ideas
The 'Onion Layers' of Writing

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Language

Cal's Soapbox #1
Diction: Right Word, Right Time
English as a non-native speaker/wrter
Pretty words don't make the story
Repetition
Overexaggeration versus Subjective Reality
Translation 101 (In the Miscellaneous Forum)
Verbs Are The New Adjectives (In the Grammar & Research Forum)
Voice (In the Grammar & Research Forum)
Writing Fresh Prose and Poetry

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Method

All Important Groundwork
Before You Begin <the stuff you didn't want to know>
Finding Your Writing Niche
5 Tips For Before You Write
Strengths and Weaknesses
The Importance of Being...Disingenuous?
To Share or Not To Share
What do I write?
Your Style

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NonFiction

Essay Writing: How to Take the Formulaic and Make it Yours
The Guide to Non-Fiction
Writing Non-Fiction. (Tutorial/Guidance)

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Novels

Chapter endings
5 Tips for Finishing a Novel
How to Write Chapters
Non-Catchy Titles

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Pacing

Boring is Good
Pacing, and why it is important
Summary vs. Scene

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Plot

Adding Dimensions (3) -- A Fantabulous Climax
And Now We Plot Against Plotting
Cliffhangers
Conflicting Conflicts
Keeping the Same Events From Being Boring
Keeping Things Unpredictable: The Dos
Keeping Things Unpredictable: The Don'ts
Motivational Plotting
Outlines Are Like Prescription Glasses
Plot Your Way
Plotting With Excel
Deus Ex Machina
Suddenly a big dragon flew out and killed everyone...

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