WRITING BASICS

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For those who hate searching through list after list of links, this page serves as a point of direct access to several WWW-published articles about the challenge of writing. See the Writers' Marketplace for articles concerned with the business of writing. Suggestions for additions to this collection are always welcome (send a note to the webmaven).

DIRECTORY

Motivation and Inspiration
Fiction
Non-fiction
Improving Your Writing

MOTIVATION & INSPIRATION

• You Ain't Lazy, You're Incubating (Philip Goldberg)

• Developing Efficient Work Habits (Crawford Kilian)

• Coping With Writer's Block (Joanne Reid)

• Five Important Rules for a Successful Writers Group (Michael A. Banks)

• Writing Strategies (Daniel Chandler)

• Know Your Audience (Mary Westheimer)

• Miscellaneous Tips for Writers (Michael A. Banks)

• The Theory and Practice of Titles (Brenda W. Clough)

FICTION

• What is a Short Story? (Marion Zimmer Bradley)

• World Building FAQ (courtesy of the World-Building Email List)

• Show Or Tell: Which Is Better? (Crawford Kilian)

• Plot (Damon Knight)

• Top 10 Plotting Problems (Alicia Rasley)

• Let's Talk About Dialogue (Crawford Kilian)

• Perceiving What's At Stake in Your Story (Bill Johnson)

NON-FICTION

• The Freelance Writing FAQ (Marcia Yudkin)

• Planning Papers (Courtesy of the Purdue University Online Writing Lab)

• The Art of the Research Paper (Edited by Danny DeLong)

• How to Sell Articles to Daily and Weekly Newspapers (Phil Philcox)

• Writing for the Web (John Morkes & Jakob Nielsen)

IMPROVING YOUR WRITING

• Basic Punctuation and Mechanics (Craig Waddell)

• Conciseness: Methods of Eliminating Wordiness (Courtesy of the Purdue University Online Writing Lab)

• Self-Editing (Lori Handeland)

• The Elements of Style (William Strunk, 1918)

• Guide to Grammar and Style (Jack Lynch)