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CHARACTER, POINT OF VIEW, DIALOGUE

• 10 Days of Character Building
• Name Generators
• Name Playground
• The Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test
• Priming the idea pump (A character checklist shamlessly lifted from acting)
• How to Create a Character
• Seven Common Character Types
• Handling a Cast of Thousands – Part I: Getting to Know Your Characters
• It’s Not What They Say …
• Establishing the Right Point of View: How to Avoid “Stepping Out of Character”
• How to Start Writing in the Third Person
• Web Resources for Developing Characters
• What are the Sixteen Master Archetypes?
• Character: A compilation of guidance from classical and contemporary experts on creating great dramatic characters
• Building Fictional Characters
• Fiction Writer’s Character Chart
• Character Building Workshop
• Tips for Characterization
• Fiction Writer’s Character Chart
• Villains are People, Too, But …
• Top 10 Tips for Writing Dialogue
• Speaking of Dialogue
• Dialogue Tips
• Advantages, Disadvantages and Skills (character traits)
• How to Write a Character Bible
• Character Development Exercises
• All Your Characters Sounds the Same — And They’re Not a Hivemind!
• Medieval Names Archive
• Sympathy Without Saintliness
• Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Difference for Successful Fiction
• Family Echo (family tree website)
• Interviewing Characters: Follow the Energy
• 100 Character Development Questions for Writers
• Behind the Name
• Lineage Chart Layout Generator

PLOT, CONFLICT, STRUCTURE, OUTLINE

• How to Write a Novel: The Snowflake Method
• Effectively Outlining Your Plot
• Conflict and Character within Story Structure
• Outlining Your Plot
• Ideas, Plots & Using the Premise Sheets
• How to Write a Novel
• Creating Conflict and Sustaining Suspense
• Plunge Right In … Into Your Story, That Is!
• Fiction Writing Tips: Story Grid
• Tips for Creating a Compelling Plot
• Writer’s “Cheat Sheets”
• The Thirty-six (plus one) Dramatic Situations
• The Evil Overlord Devises a Plot: Excerpt from Stupid Plotting Tricks
• Conflict Test
• What is Conflict?
• Monomyth
• The Hero’s Journey: Summary of the Steps
• Outline Your Novel in Thirty Minutes
• Plotting Without Fears
• Novel Outlining 101
• Writing the Perfect Scene
• Fight Scenes 101
• Basic Plots in Literature
• One-Page Plotting
• The Great Swampy Middle

SETTING, WORLD BUILDING

• Magical World Builder’s Guide
• I Love the End of the World
• World Building 101
• The Art of Description: Eight Tips to Help You Bring Your Settings to Life
• Creating the Perfect Setting – Part I
• Creating a Believable World
• An Impatient Writer’s Approach to Worldbuilding
• Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions
• Setting
• Character and Setting Interactions
• Creating Fantasy and Science Fiction Worlds
• Creating Fantasy Worlds
• Questions About Worldbuilding
• Maps Workshop — Developing the Fictional World Through Mapping
• World Builder Projects

IDEAS, INSPIRATION

• Quick Story Idea Generator
• Solve Your Problems Simply by Saying Them Out Loud
• Busting Your Writing Rut
• Writing Inspiration, or Sex on a Bicycle
• Creative Acceleration: 11 Tips to Engineer a Productive Flow
• 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 and Idea Generators

REVISION

• How to Rewrite
• One-Pass Manuscript Revision: From First Draft to Last in One Cycle
• Editing Recipe
• Cliche Finder
• Revising Your Novel: Read What You’ve Written
• Writing 101: So You Want to Write a Novel Part 3: Revising a Novel

TOOLS and SOFTWARE

• My Writing Nook (online text editor; free)
• Bubbl.us (online mind map application; 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 software; free trial, $45.95; Windows, portable)
• Scrivener (novel organization and writing software; free trial, $39.95; Mac)
• SuperNotecard (novel organization and writing software; free trial, $29; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)
• yWriter (novel organization and writing software; free; Windows, Linux, portable)
• JDarkRoom (minimalist text editor; free; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)
• AutoRealm (map creation software; free; Windows, Linux with Wine)