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MY WRITING MASTERPOST

I just have a lot of writing tips and masterposts and just stuff in my likes and I decided to put them all into this. All rights goes to the people who made them.

Cool Other Masterposts:

• Writing Specific Characters
• Writing References
• Writing Masterpost
• Character Guides
• Writing Help for Writers
• Ultimate Writing Resource List
• Lots of RP Guides
• Online Writing Resources
• List of Websites to Help You Focus
• Resources for Writing Bio’s
• Helpful Links for Writing Help
• General Writing Resources
• Resources for Biography Writing
• Mental Ilnesses/Disorders Guides
• 8 Words You Should Avoid While Writing
• The Ultimate Writing Masterpost

General:

• The Official Ten-Step Guide to Becoming the Next Gatsby
• The Periodic Table of Storytelling
• Joss Whedon’s Top 10 Writing Tips
• Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone
• 34 Writing Tips that will make you a Better Writer
• 50 Free resources that will improve your writing skills
• 5 ways to get out of the comfort zone and become a stronger writer
• 10 ways to avoid Writing Insecurity
• The Writer’s Guide to Overcoming Insecurity
• The Difference Between Good Writers and Bad Writers
• You’re Not Hemingway – Developing Your Own Style
• 7 Ways to use Brain Science to Hook Readers and Reel them In
• 8 Short Story Tips from Kurt Vonnegut
• How to Show, Not Tell
• 5 Essential Story Ingredients
• How to Write Fiction that grabs your readers from page one
• Why research is important in writing
• Make Your Reader Root for Your Main Character
• Writing Ergonomics (Staying Comfortable Whilst Writing)
• The Importance of Body Language
• Fashion Terminology
• All About Kissing
• Genre Help: Romance
• 187 Mental Illnesses
• Types of Mental Illness
• Eye Color List
• Spectral Groupings
• Do you have trouble creating your titles?
• On being a co-writer || Additional tips on effective co-writing 
• The length of a chapter
• How to deal with too many story ideas
• On writing two stories simultaneously || a similar ask
• When a story stops working
• Copyright
• Reading critically for writers
• The question of outlining
• Avoiding publishing scams
• Finding story ideas
• Tips on building a platform [guest blog]
• How much does writing “in genre” matter?
• What a “real writer” is
• Pennames and aliases
• A series of thoughts on series titles
• The self-pub miniseries: the why
• The self-pub miniseries: the what
• Rewriting fanfiction into original fiction
• Formatting long quotes and songs 

Characters:

• 10 days of Character Building
• Name Generators
• Name Playground
• Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test
• Seven Common Character Types
• Handling a Cast of Thousands Part 1 – Getting To Know Your Characters
• Web Resources for Developing Characters
• Building Fictional Characters
• Fiction Writer’s Character Chart
• Body Language Cheat
• Body Language Reference Cheat
• Tips for Writers: Body Language
• Types of Crying
• Body Language: Mirroring
• Character Building Workshop
• Tips for Characterization
• Character Chart for Fiction Writers
• Villains are people too but…
• How to Write a Character Bible
• Character Development Exercises
• All Your Characters Talk the Same – And They’re Not A Hivemind!
• Medieval Names Archive
• Sympathy Without Saintliness
• Family Echo (Family Tree Maker)
• Behind The Name
• 100 Character Development Questions for Writers
• Aether’s Character Development Worksheet
• The 12 Common Archetypes
• Six Types of Courageous Characters
• Kazza’s List of Character Secrets – Part 1, Part 2
• Creating Believable Characters With Personality
• Angry
• Bad Asses
• Bitches (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
• Childishness
• Emotional Detachment
• Flirtatious
• The Girl Next Door
• Introverts (2)
• Mean Persons (2)
• Psychopaths
• Party Girls
• Rich (2) 
• Rebels
• Sarcasm
• Serial Killers (2)
• Shyness (2, 3)
• Sluts
• Villains (2)
• Witt
• Body Language Cheat Sheet
• Creating Fictional Characters Series
• Three Ways to Avoid Lazy Character Description
• 7 Rules for Picking Names for Fictional Characters
• Character Development Questionnaire
• How to Create Fictional Characters
• Character Name Resources
• Character Development Template
• Character Development Through Hobbies
• Character Flaws List
• 10 Questions for Creating Believable Characters
• Ari’s Archetype Series
• How to Craft Compelling Characters
• List of 200 Character Traits
• Writing Characters of the Opposite Sex
• Making Your Characters Likable
• Do you really know your characters?
• Character Development: Virtues
• Character Development: Vices
• Character Morality Alignment
• List of Negative Personality Traits
• List of Positive Personality Traits
• List of Emotions – Positive
• List of Emotions – Negative
• Loon’s Character Development Series – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
• Phobia List A-L (Part 1), M-Z (Part 2)
• 30 Day In Depth Character Development Meme
• Words for Emotions based on Severity
• Eight Bad Characters
• High Level Description of the Sixteen Personality Types
• How Not to Write Female Characters
• Writing Female Characters
• How to write empowering female characters
• Why I write strong female characters
• Red Flags for Female Characters Written by Men
• Writing strong female characters
• The Female Character Flowchart
• Eight Heroine Archetypes
• Eight Hero Archetypes
• Help on picking character names
• A tip about realistic characters
• Strategies to create believable characters
• Additional tips on writing PoC characters
• Advice on writing genders
• Creating unstable characters
• Ambiguous Antagonists
• A tidbit on psychological trauma [trigger warnings]
• On writing accents
• What makes characters stick with me
• Sweetening up character description
• Making an introverted character stand out
• Conveying too much or too little character “inner reflection”
• Revealing a character’s asexual orientation
• Revealing a character’s gender & orientation
• A habit of killing characters
• When characters aren’t standing out
• Breaking hearts with character deaths
• Quick tips on expressing character 
• Character development versus pacing 
• A mini guide to character voice
• A Description Resource
• 55 Words to Describe Someones Voice
• Describing Skin Colors
• Describing a Person: Adding Details
• Emotions Vocabulary
• 90 Words For ‘Looks’
• Be More Descriptive
• Describe a Character’s Look Well
• 100 Words for Facial Expressions
• To Show and Not To Tell
• Words to Describe Facial Expressions
• Describing Clothes
• List of Actions
• Tone, Feelings and Emotions
• Writing A Vampire
• Writing Pansexual Characters
• Writing Characters on the Police Force
• Writing Drunk Characters
• Writing A Manipulative Character
• Writing A Friends With Benefits Relationship
• Writing A Natural Born Leader
• Writing A Flirtatious Character
• Writing A Nice Character
• Fiction Writing Exercises for Creating Villains
• Five Traits to Contribute to an Epic Villain
• Writing Villains that Rock
• Writing British Characters
• How To Write A Character With A Baby
• On Assassin Characters
• Disorders in general (2, 3, 4, 5) 
• Attention Deficit Disorder
• Antisocial Personality Disorder
• Anxiety (2, 3, 4, 5) 
• Avoidant Personality Disorder
• Alice In Wonderland Syndrome
• Bipolar Disorder (2, 3)
• Cotard Delusions
• Depression (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)   
• Eeating Disorders (2, 3)
• Facitious Disorders
• Histrionic Personality Disorder
• Multiple Personality Disorder (2)
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder
• Night Terrors
• Kleptomania (2)
• A Pyromaniac
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Psychopaths
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (2) (3)
• Sex Addiction (2)
• Schizophrenia (2)
• Sociopaths (2)
• Aspergers Syndrome
• Apathy 
• Autism
• Someone Blind (2)
• Cancer (2, 3)
• Disability
• Dyslexia
• Muteness (2, 3)
• Stutter
• Actors
• Ballet Dancer (2)
• Christianity
• Foreigners
• Gamblers
• Hinduism
• Hitmen
• Satanism
• Smokers
• Stoners
• Taoism
• Journalists
• Vegetarians
• Alcohol Influence (2, 3, 4, 5)
• Cocaine Influence
• Ecstasy Influence (2)
• Heroin Use
• LSD Influence
• Marijuana Influence (2, 3)
• Opiate Use

Tips on Writing Dialogue:

• It’s Not What They Say…
• Top 8 Tips for Writing Dialogue
• Speaking of Dialogue
• The Great Said Debate
• He Said, She Said, Who Said What?
• How to Write Dialogue Unique to Your Characters
• Writing Dialogue: Go for Realistic, Not Real-Life

Tips on Writing Point of View:

• Establishing The Right Point of View
• How to Start Writing in the Third Person
• The I Problem

Style & Craft of Writing:

• The literary “weak verb”
• Do you have word tics?
• Victoria’s Vitamins: vague descriptive words
• Victoria’s Vitamins: mood
• Breaking writing habits
• Varying sentences
• Describing colors
• Sweetening up character description
• Purple prose
• Grammar is a tricksy thing
• “Smartening” the language of your narrative
• Building suspense and making readers sweat
• A couple tips about description in fast-paced scenes

Content:

• The story of exposition
• 10 ways to hit your reader in the gut
• Make your reader root for your main character
• Make your reader hold their breath
• What’s the big deal about intros?
• A tip about description
• The word count of your manuscript
• Things that make me keep reading
• Choosing ideas and endings
• When to describe setting
• Battling cliches
• Is your story YA, NA, or adult?
• When a plot isn’t strong enough to make a whole story
• Flashbacks with multiple POVs
• Bulking up your word count
• Avoiding cliches
• Conquer that opening line || response || discussion
• Tips on revealing setting awesomely kind of
• Deciding between different ideas for the same story 

Revision:

• You’ve finished your manuscript! Now what?
• Revision sucks but doesn’t have to suck
• Where to find beta readers/critique partners
• Tips on taking critique
• Tips on giving critique
• What to do with bad writing advice
• Additional insight on bad writing advice
• Five quick steps to get into revising that manuscript
• When to say you’re done revising
• Beginning the awesome journey of revision
• Friends are not always the best readers 

Plot, Structure, & Outline:

• Writing A Novel Using the Snowflake Method
• Effectively Outlining Your Novel
• Conflict and Character Within Story Structure
• Outlining Your Plot
• Ideas, Plots and Using the Premise Sheets
• How To Write A Novel
• Creating Conflict and Sustaining Suspense
• Plunge Right In…Into Your Story, That Is
• Tips for Creating a Compelling Plot
• 36 (plus one) Dramatic Situations
• The Evil Overlord Devises A Plot: Excerpt from Stupid Plot Tricks
• Conflict Test
• What is Conflict?
• Monomyth
• The Hero’s Journey: Summary of Steps
• Outline Your Novel in Thirty Minutes
• Plotting Without Fears
• Novel Outlining 101
• Writing The Perfect Scene
• One-Page Plotting
• The Great Swampy Middle
• How Can You Know What Belongs In Your Book?
• Create A Plot Outline in 8 Easy Steps
• How to Organize and Develop Ideas for Your Novel
• Create Structure in your novel using index cards
• Choosing the best outline method for you
• Hatch’s Plot Bank

Setting & Making Your Own World

• Magical Word Builder’s Guide
• I Love The End Of The World
• World Building 101
• The Art of Description: Eight Tips to Help Bring Your Settings to Life
• Creating the Perfect Setting – Part 1
• Creating a Believable World
• Setting
• Character and Setting Interactions
• Maps Workshop – Developing the Fictional World Through Mapping
• World Builders Project
• How To Create Fantasy Worlds
• Creating Fantasy and Science Fiction Worlds

Helpful Tools & Software:

• Tip Of My Tongue – Find the word you’re looking for
• Write or Die – Stay motivated
• Stay Focused – Tool for Chrome, lock yourself out of distracting websites
• My Writing Nook – Online Text Editor, Free
• Bubbl.us – Online Mind Map Application, Free
• Family Echo – Online Family Tree Maker, Free
• Freemind – Mind Map Application; Free; Windows, Mac, Linux, Portable
• Xmind – Mind Map Application; Free; Windows, Mac, Linux, Portable
• Liquid Story Binder – Novel Organization and Writing Application; free trial, $45.95; Windows, Portable
• Scrivener – Novel Organization and Writing Application; free trial, $39.95; Mac
• SuperNotecard – Novel Organization and Writing Application; free trial, $29; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable
• yWriter – Novel Organization and Writing Application; free; Windows, Linux, portable
• JDarkRoom – Minimalist Text Editing Application; free; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable
• AutoRealm – Map Creation Application; free; Windows, Linux with Wine

Grammer & Revision:

• How To Rewrite
• Editing Recipe
• Cliche Finder
• Revising Your Novel: Read What You’ve Written
• Writing 101: Revising A Novel
• 20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Makes
• Synonyms for the Most Commonly Used Words of the English Language
• Grammar Urban Legends
• Words Instead of Walk (2)
• Commonly Confused Adjectives
• A Guide on Punctuation
• Common Writing Mistakes
• 25 Synoms for ‘Expession’
• How to: Avoid Misusing Variations of Words
• Words to Keep Inside Your Pocket
• The 13 Trickiest Grammar Hang-Ups
• Other Ways to Say..
• Proofreading
• 300+ Sophiscated and Underused Words
• List of Misused Words
• Words for Sex
• 100 Beautiful and Ugly Words
• Words to Use More Often
• Alternatives for ‘Smile’ or ‘Laugh’
• Three Self Editing Tips
• Words to Use Instead of ‘Walk’, ‘Said’, ‘Happy’ and ‘Sad’
• Synonyms for Common Words
• Alternatives for ‘Smile’
• Transitional Words
• The Many Faces and Meanings of ‘Said’
• Synonyms for ‘Wrote’
• A Case Of She Said, She Said

Creativity Boosters:

• *Creative Writing Prompts
• *Ink Provoking
• *Story Starter
• *Story Spinner
• *Story Kitchen
• *Language is a Virus
• *The Dabbling Mum
• Quick Story Idea Generator
• Solve Your Problems By Simply Saying Them Out Loud
• Busting Your Writing Rut
• Creative Acceleration: 11 Tips To Engineer A Productive Flow
• Writing Inspiration, Or Sex on a Bicycle
• The Seven Major Beginner Mistakes
• Complete Your First Book with these 9 Simple Writing Habits
• Free Association, Active Imagination, Twilight Imaging
• Random Book Title Generator
• Finishing Your Novel
• Story Starters & Idea Generators
• Words to Use More Often
• How to: Cure Writer’s Block
• Some Tips on Writer’s Block
• Got Writer’s Block?
• 6 Ways to Beat Writer’s Block
• Tips for Dealing With Writer’s Block

Improvement:

• Improve Your Writing Habits Now
• 5 Ways to Add Sparkle to Your Writing
• Getting Over Roleplaying Insecurities
• Improve Your Paras
• Why the Right Word Choices Result in Better Writing
• 4 Ways To Have Confidence in Your Writing
• Writing Better Than You Normally Do
• How’s My Driving?

Motivation:

• Backhanding procrastination
• On habits and taking care of yourself || Response
• More troubles with writing motivation
• The inner critic and ways to fight it
• The writing life is hard on us
• For troubles with starting your story
• Writing to be published
• “You’re a writer, will you write this for me?”
• Writing a story that’s doomed to suck
• Writing stamina builds slowly
• When depression goes and writing goes with it
• Additional inner critic strategies
• Tips on conquering NaNoWriMo (or any project, really)
• You will change as a writer
• Ways to keep writing while in school
• 13 quick tips when you’re starting your novel
• First draft blues
• Getting in your own way 

Writing an Application:

• How to: Make That Application Your Bitch
• How to: Make Your App Better
• How to: Submit a Flawless Audition
• 10 Tips for Applying
• Para Sample Ideas
• 5 Tips on Writing an IC Para Sample
• Writing an IC Sample Without Escaping From the Bio
• How to: Create a Worthy IC Para Sample
• How to: Write an Impressive Para Sample
• How to: Lengthen Short Para’s

Prompts:

• Drabble Stuff
• Prompts List
• Writing Prompts
• Drabble Prompts
• How to Get Into Character
• Writing Challenges/Prompts
• A Study in Writing Prompts for RPs
• Para Prompts & Ideas
• Writing Prompts for Journal Entries
• A List of Para Starters