Writing

Tools

• Literary Devices
• Fighters' Block
• Critical Concepts by Lyman A. Baker
• Common Errors in English Usage
• Research Resources for Writers
• Phrase Finder
• wordcounter.net
• Wordsmith
• Little Details
• WriteWords Phrase Frequency Counter
• Random Lists
• writing about DRUGS
• Medical Meta Series
• Cheat Sheets For Writing Body Language
• The Fifty Headed Hydra
• A Word Crawl for the Motivationally Challenged!
• JSanderson's Write or Die Clone
• Inform 7 (interactive fiction)
• Twinery (interactive fiction)
• Renpy (visual novels)

Advice & Insight on the Craft

• How to Balance Action, Narrative, and Dialogue in Your Novel
• Never Say You Can’t Survive: When Is It Okay To Write About Someone Else’s Culture or Experience?
  • Response: How Not to Be All About What It’s Not All About: Further Thoughts on Writing About Someone Else’s Culture and Experience
• How to write long-form stories
• Discussion topic: The End of it All
• Exposition, or "I first came to Chicago..."
• When do you hit that return key, and why?
• "Show, don't tell": what it really means.
• The Ins and Outs of Effective Dialogue
• Grammar Girl's Quirk and Dirty Tips Podcast
• Daily Writing Tips
• The Big List of Fanfic Peeves
• All you ever wanted to know about semicolons
• What's the Point of Point of View?
• The Interrupter: Blending Action and Dialog Dynamically
• A few grammar/vocabulary-related tips.
• Process
• Ah, the simpler past.
• Maybe not all adverbs are bad guys
• Other articles on Flogging the Quill
• Wordcount Dracula
• Resources For Describing Physical Things
• bettsfic's writing advice
• Get a Real Degree by Elif Batuman

Editing/Beta Reading

• Not Just Talking to the Monitor: an Examination of Beta Reading
• Thoughts of the role of the Beta
• The Different Types of Critiquers
• How I Beta
• The Necessity of Having a Good Beta-Reader (or Why Spell-Check Just Doesn't Cut It)
• Why Writers Need Betas
• In praise of brutal beta
• Pinning Down Those Butterfly Souls (Honesty in Asking for Feedback)
• A curious confluence of mostly crap. (Meta.)
• Advice for the thin-skinned
• For Beta, For Worse: Marriage guidance advice for authors and betas.
• On Being Betaed
• On the beta process and how to get the most out of it

Inspiration/Prompts

• A Softer World
• SAYA IN UNDERWORLD (horror)
• I Wrote This For You

Vocabulary/Body Language

• Cheat Sheets For Writing Body Language
• 400+ Alternative Words for "Said"
• OneLook Reverse Dictionary
• Master List of Gestures and Body Language for Writers

Lists of links to writerly resources

• Writing help links by lira_snape
• Writing Resources by kerryblaze
• Writing Meta Table of Contents by synecdochic