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This is an ultimate masterlist of many resources that could be helpful for writers. I apologize in advance for any not working links. Check out the ultimate writing resource masterlist here (x) and my “novel” tag here (x).

✑ PLANNING

Outlining & Organizing

• For the Architects: The Planning Process


• Rough Drafts


• How do you plan a novel?


• Plot Development: Climax, Resolution, and Your Main Character


• Plotting and Planing


• I Have An Idea for a Novel! Now What?


• Choosing the Best Outline Method


• 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

✑ INSPIRATION

• Finding story ideas


• Choosing ideas and endings


• When a plot isn’t strong enough to make a whole story


• Writing a story that’s doomed to suck


• How to Finish What You Start: A Five-Step Plan for Writers


• Finishing Your Novel


• Finish Your Novel


• How to Finish Your Novel when You Want to Quit


• How To Push Past The Bullshit And Write That Goddamn Novel: A Very Simple No-Fuckery Writing Plan

✑ PLOT

In General

• 25 Turns, Pivots and Twists to Complicate Your Story


• The ABCs (and Ds and Es) of Plot Development


• Originality Is Overrated


• How to Create a Plot Outline in Eight Easy Steps


• Finding Plot: Idea Nets


• The Story Goal: Your Key to Creating a Solid Plot Structure


• Make your reader root for your main character


• Creating Conflict and Sustaining Suspense


• Tips for Creating a Compelling Plot


• The Thirty-six (plus one) Dramatic Situations


• Adding Subplots to a Novel


• Weaving Subplots into a Novel


• 7 Ways to Add Subplots to Your Novel


• Crafting a Successful Romance Subplot


• How to Improve your Writing: Subplots and Subtext


• Understanding the Role of Subplots


• How to Use Subtext in your Writing


• The Secret Life of Subtext


• How to Use Subtext

Beginning

• Creating a Process: Getting Your Ideas onto Paper (And into a Story)


• Why First Chapters?


• Starting with a Bang


• In the Beginning


• The Beginning of your Novel that isn’t the Beginning of your Novel


• A Beginning from the Middle


• Starting with a Bang


• First Chapters: What To Include @ The Beginning Writer


• 23 Clichés to Avoid When Beginning Your Story


• Start Writing Now


• Done Planning. What Now?


• Continuing Your Long-Format Story


• 
  How to Start a Novel 


• 100 best first lines from novels


• The First Sentence of a Book Report


• How To Write A Killer First Sentence To Open Your Book


• How to Write the First Sentence of a Book


• The Most Important Sentence: How to Write a Killer Opening


• Hook Your Reader from the First Sentence: How to Write Great Beginnings

Foreshadowing

• Foreshadowing and the Red Hering


• Narrative Elements: Foreshadowing


• Foreshadowing and Suspense


• Foreshadowing Key Details


• Writing Fiction: Foreshadowing


• The Literary Device of Foreshadowing


• All About Foreshadowing in Fiction


• Foreshadowing


• Flashbacks and Foreshadowing


• Foreshadowing — How and Why to Use It In Your Writing

Setting

• 
  Four Ways to Bring Settings to Life
  


• Write a Setting for a Book


• Writing Dynamic Settings


• How To Make Your Setting a Character


• Guide for Setting


• 5 Tips for Writing Better Settings


• Building a Novel’s Setting

Ending

• A Novel Ending


• How to End Your Novel


• How to End Your Novel 2


• How to End a Novel With a Punch


• How to End a Novel


• How to Finish a Novel


• How to Write The Ending of Your Novel


• Keys to Great Endings


• 3 Things That End A Story Well


• Ending a Novel: Five Things to Avoid


• Endings that Ruin Your Novel


• Closing Time: The Ending

✑ CHARACTER

Names

• Behind the Name


• Surname Meanings and Origins


• Surname Meanings and Origins - A Free Dictionary of Surnames


• Common US Surnames & Their Meanings


• Last Name Meanings & Origins


• Name Generators


• Name Playground

Different Types of Characters

• Ways To Describe a Personality


• Character Traits Meme


• Types of Characters


• Types of Characters in Fiction


• Seven Common Character Types


• Six Types of Courageous Characters


• Creating Fictional Characters (Masterlist)


• Building Fictional Characters


• Fiction Writer’s Character Chart


• Character Building Workshop


• Tips for Characterization


• Fiction Writer’s Character Chart


• 
  Advantages, Disadvantages and Skills 

Males

• Strong Male Characters


• The History and Nature of Man Friendships


• Friendship for Guys (No Tears!)


• ‘I Love You, Man’ and the rules of male friendship


• Male Friendship


• Understanding Male Friendship


• Straight male friendship, now with more cuddling

Character Development

• P.O.V. And Background


• Writing a Character: Questionnaire


• 10 Days of Character Building


• Getting to Know Your Characters


• Character Development Exercises

✑ STYLE

Chapters

• How Many Chapters is the Right Amount of Chapters?


• The Arbitrary Nature of the Chapter


• How Long is a Chapter?


• How Long Should Novel Chapters Be?


• 
  Chapter & Novel Lengths 


• Section vs. Scene Breaks

Dialogue 

• The Passion of Dialogue


• 25 Things You Should Know About Dialogue


• Dialogue Writing Tips


• Punctuation Dialogue


• How to Write Believable Dialogue


• Writing Dialogue: The Music of Speech


• Writing Scenes with Many Characters


• It’s Not What They Say …


• Top 10 Tips for Writing Dialogue


• Speaking of Dialogue


• Dialogue Tips


• Interrupted Dialogue


• Two Tips for Interrupted Dialogue

Show, Don’t Tell (Description)

• “Tell” Makes a Great Placeholder


• The Literary Merit of the Grilled Cheese Sandwich


• Bad Creative Writing Advice


• The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do


• DailyWritingTips: Show, Don’t Tell


• GrammarGirl: Show, Don’t Tell


• Writing Style: What Is It?


• Detail Enhances Your Fiction


• Using Sensory Details


• Description in Fiction


• Using Concrete Detail


• Depth Through Perception


• Showing Emotions & Feelings

Character Description

• Describing Your Characters (by inkfish7 on DeviantArt)


• Help with Character Development


• Creating Characters that Jump Off the Page


• Omitting Character Description


• Introducing Your Character(s): DON’T


• Character Crafting


• Writer’s Relief Blog: “Character Development In Stories And Novels”


• Article: How Do You Think Up Your Characters?


• 5 Character Points You May Be Ignoring


• List of colors, hair types and hairstyles


• 
  List of words to use in a character’s description 


• 200 words to describe hair


• How to describe hair


• Words used to describe the state of people’s hair


• How to describe your haircut


• Hair color sharts


• Four Ways to Reveal Backstory


• Words Used to Describe Clothes

Flashbacks

• Using Flashbacks in Writing


• Flashbacks by All Write


• Using Flashback in Fiction


• Fatal Backstory


• Flashbacks as opening gambit


• Don’t Begin at the Beginning


• Flashbacks in Books


• TVTropes: Flashback


• Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear: Flashback Techniques in Fiction


• 3 Tips for Writing Successful Flashbacks


• The 5 Rules of Writing Effective Flashbacks


• How to Handle Flashbacks In Writing


• Flashbacks and Foreshadowing


• Reddit Forum: Is a flashback in the first chapter a good idea?


• Forum Discussing Flackbacks

P.O.V

• You, Me, and XE - Points of View


• What’s Your Point of View?


• Establishing the Right Point of View: How to Avoid “Stepping Out of Character”


• How to Start Writing in the Third Person


• The Opposite Gender P.O.V.

LANGUAGE

•  How To Say Said


• 200 Words Instead of Said


• Words to Use Instead of Said


• A List of Words to Use Instead of Said


• Alternatives to “Walk”


• 60 Synonyms for “Walk”

✑ USEFUL WEBSITES/LINKS

• Grammar Monster


• Google Scholar


• GodChecker


• Tip Of My Tounge


• Speech Tags


• Pixar Story Rules


• Written? Kitten!


• TED Talks


• DarkCopy


• Family Echo


• Some Words About Word Count


• How Long Should My Novel Be?


• The Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test


• Writer’s “Cheat Sheets”

Last but not least, the most helpful tool for any writer out there is Google!

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