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