What are the best Knowledge Base articles?

I need some help! I'm looking at putting together a Young Writers Bible filled with the best articles from the Knowledge Base. Before including any, I'll have to get the author's permission of course, but the first step to putting this together is just identifying the stuff that'd ideally be included.

So, what article (or articles) from the Knowledge Base do you find really helpful?

Sounds like a good idea to me.. Being a person who actually read through a lot of forums when I first joined, I'll try to find the ones I found particularly helpful.

If I may suggest, by the way, moving the Big Book of YWS Codes to the Welcome Mat or somewhere, I think that may do good - a lot of new members ask about posting pictures or links, and there it's all nicely explained but people seem to have troubles finding it. Unless it's already somewhere in the Welcome Mat as well, and I'm the one with failing seeking abilities >.<

I think everything in the Knowledge Base is extremely helpful x) Including a variety of topics like common grammar mistakes alongside tips for things like creating plot, characters, world-building and all that good stuff would be best.

Oh wait, I do have a favorite. The articles on punctuation within dialogue, I'm always linking people to those. I struggled with that a lot when I started writing and I think a lot new writers have the same problem. These articles really cleared things up:

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I think maybe a good way to tell which topics in the KB are the most helpful is to just check the number of views for each one. Some topics like "Your VS You're" and "How to use Wikipedia" only have a few hundred views, whereas other threads have 1,000-2,000 views (even if they are older, it gives a bit of an estimate I think).

Are you really naming it the Young Writer's Bible though? haha. (or is it just a tentative title?)

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I have, in rants, said many times that this article should be compulsory reading before anybody joins YWS

Why, I came back.. And my list ended up longer than I thought it to be. But oh, well.

This is one of my favourites for sure - the point comes across in a very interesting way, I'd say.

This one has some interesting thoughts on villains. Seeing that they do make for an important part of most of the stories out there, I figure it comes handy.

These are, in my opinion, some very useful tips.

This one is another great topic on villains. What can I do, I like villains, so I found stuff about writing them :p

Also a very good article about a very common problem.

This one I suppose, comes rather naturally to most of you, but I still see a lot of people doing it wrong, thus here's the link.

This is also something we should already know about, but nevertheless this topic gives some good advices and sums it up nicely.

This is pretty interesting too, not only the first post but the replies as well.

This is a nice one too. Snoink is good at these stuff, I must say. Again, the comments are interesting too.

Here is another one of hers, rather encouraging, I think.

This is for tips about characters, also one I liked.

Here is another good one, this time on critiquing.

And so is this one.

Oh my, make me stop. The point, I guess, is that everyone on here is very helpful and I'm glad they (you) all share the knowledge with others. The first few are my favourites, though I find all of them great and they're not listed here in any particular order. I also second Stella and Sheep.

These two are a must when looking into dialogue in a story.
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A few that I'd like to see included:

Reviewing

How To Write A Good Critique By Emerson.

What isn't a good critique? By Snoink.

Art & Photography Reviews By Elinor Brynn.

How to Respond to Critiques By Elinor Brynn.

Writing: Poetry

Rhyme...all the time! By Cade.

How-To: Iambic Pentameter By Lumi.

Poetry-Editing Checklist By Jasmine Hart.

Secret Treasures in Poetic Devices By Hannah.

Writing: Fiction

Five Steps to Finishing a Novel By Skins.

The Seven Deadly Sins of Island Hopping by Writersdomain.

Mysterious Characters By Snoink.

The Nature of Ideas By Conrad Rice.

Description By Rydia.

Five Tips For Before You Write By Nate.

Building a Story By Master_Yoda.

Basic Playwriting By smorgishborg.

Winning The Battle By Firestarter.

Keeping Things Unpredictable: The Do's By RachaelElg.

All Important Groundwork By Jiggity.

5 Tips for Realistic Characters By Teague.

There's a really horrid one on Non-Fiction by me some two years ago.

If anyone thinks it useful I can mop that up and recreate a Guide to Non-Fic.

Let me know.

BenFranks wrote:There's a really horrid one on Non-Fiction by me some two years ago.

If anyone thinks it useful I can mop that up and recreate a Guide to Non-Fic.

Let me know.

Quite frankly, BenFranks, that'd be awesome. It'd be great to have a Non-Fic guide by you in there.

I am on it.

For when it's fully updated, Fantasy Map-Making Tutorial by TheSunChildren

The Beginning Writer's Guide to Publishing by Lauren2010

Why It's Ok Not To Have A Writing Environment by Jasmine Hart

Three hours work later...

The brand new Guide to Non-Fiction

Please let me know feedback/whether it's up to scratch.

Literally my most linked article is Demeter's Punctuation within Dialogue, which Stella already threw up there but I just have to second. Because it's wonderful. And everyone should read it.

I may return later with more.

The Beginning Writer's Guide To Publishing by Lauren2010