Useful Writing Resources

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This is an extensive list of resources for every problem you could come across while writing/planning/editing your novel. Use it well;)

{ *** } Indicate a Highly Reccommended Resource

Planning/outlining Your Work

• How To Outline ***
  
• Zigzag Method : Creating Plots
  
• How to Plot a Romance Novel 
  
• Seven Great Sources of Conflict for Romances 
  
• Let’s talk about brainstorming
  
• Writing Something With Meaning ***
  
• Past Or Present Tense? : How To Decide
  

Writing Your Work

• How To Write A Fabulous Chapter #1 ***
  
• How to Build a Romance Thread in Your Story 
  
• The Big Book Of Writing Sex ***
• 6 Ways to Get Your Readers Shipping Like Crazy 
  
• Romance Writing Tips ***
  
• 20 Tips for Writing Lovable Romance Novel Heroes
• 7 Ways To Speed Up Your Writing *** 
  
• 80+ Barriers to Love: A List of Ideas to Keep Romantic Tension High 
  
• 9 Romance Writing Mistakes to Avoid 
  
• Removing the Creeps From Romance
  
• 19 Ways to Write Better Dialogue ***
  
• 50 Things Your Characters Can Do WHILE They Talk ***
  
• How To Write Action And Fight Scenes
  
• 10 Steps To Write Arguments
  
• 9 Ways To Write Body Language
  
• Writing Good Kissing Scenes
  
• Writing Murders
  
• Create And Control Tone ***
  
• Tips for Writing Ghost Stories
  
• Incorporating Flashbacks
  
• 12 Tips To Avoid Overwriting ***

Characters

• Behind the Name
  
• Top Baby Names
  
• Looking for a name that means a certain thing? ***
  
• 7 Rules of Picking Names
  
• Most Common Surnames ***
  
• Minor Character Development
  
• Writing Antagonists, Antiheroes and Villains
  
• Characters With Enhanced Senses
  
• 5 Tips to Help You Introduce Characters
  
• How Do You Describe a Character?
  
• How To Write Child Characters
  
• 36 Core Values For Building Character
  
• Questions To Answer When Creating Characters ***
  
• 4 Ways to Make Readers Instantly Loathe Your Character Descriptions
  
• 5 Ways to Keep Characters Consistent
  
• Character Archetypes
  
• 25 Ways To Fuck With Your Characters
  
• Building Platonic Relationships Between Female Characters
  
• 9 Simple and Powerful Ways to Write Body Language 
  
• 33 Ways To Write Stronger Characters
  
• Conveying Character Emotion 
  
• How to Make Readers Love an Unlikable Character…  
  
• How to Create Powerful Character Combos
  
• How To Describe A Character’s Voice ***
  
• Describing Clothing And Appearance ***
  
• Career Masterpost ***
  
• Creating Your Character’s Personality ***
  
• Character Flaws ***
  

Editing

• DON’T EDIT>>> REWRITE THE WHOLE THING FIRST
  
• Ultimate Guide To Editing Each Aspect Of Your Work ***
  
• Why You Would Read Your Novel Out Loud ***
  
• Grammar and Punctuation ***
  
• How To Write A Captivating First Sentence
  
• 10 Things Your Opening Chapter Should Do: A Check-List for Self-Editing ***
  
• Saving Your Story: Finding Where It Went Wrong
  
• How To Condense Without Losing Anything
  
• The Stages Of Editing
  
• Dialogue/Description Balance
  
• 3 Proofreading Tips
  
• The Short Story Form
  
• Chapter & Novel Lengths
  
• Anatomy Of A Novel : Chapters and Parts ***
  
• How To Write Chapter After Chapter Until You Have A Book ***
  
• Where Chapter #2 Should Start
  
• Step By Step Guide To Editing Your Draft
  
• Writing Tool: CTRL-F (How And Why You Should Use It) ***
  
• How To Kill A Character
  
• 25 Steps To Edit The Unmerciful Suck Out Of Your Story
  
• 5 Ways To Make Your Novel Helplessly Addictive ***
  

Setting

• {Setting} How To Describe Setting In Your Stories ***
• 20 Questions To Enhance Setting
• How To Bring Your Setting To Life

Miscellaneous Resources You Can Use In Between

• How to Write from a Guy’s POV 
  
• The Emotional Wounds Thesaurus
  
• Text To Speech Reader
  
• Compare Character Heights 
  
• A Visual Dictionary of Tops
  
• Writers Helping Writers
  
• 7 Tricks To Imrove Your Writing Overnight
  
• Work Out/ Word Count : Exercise Between Writing ***
  
• Most Important Writing Tips ***
  
• Let’s talk about diversity in novels
  
• Letting Go Of Your Story
  
• Keeping A Healthy Writing Schedule And Avoiding Procrastination ***
  
• How To Create A Good Book Cover
  
• Write or Die
  
• Tip of my Tongue
  
• Character Traits Form
  
• Online Thesaurus
  

Writing Sketchy/Medical/Law

• Coma: Types, Causes, etc
  
• Tips for writing blood loss
  
• Gunshot Wound Care
  
• Examples of Hospital Forms
  
• Common Legal Questions
  
• The Writer’s Forensics Blog
  
• Brain Injury Legal Guide
  
• Types of Surgical Operations
  
• Types of Mental Health Problems
  
• A Day in the Life of a Mental Hospital Patient
  
• Global Black Market Information ***
  
• Crime Scene Science
  
• Examining Mob Mentality
  
• How Street Gangs Work

Writers’ Block Help/ Productivity

• Story Plot Generator
  
• @aveeragemusings ‘ Cure To Writers’ Block ***
• 50 Romance Plot Ideas
  
• Reading Like A Writer ***
  
• Defeat Writers’ Block
  
• Writing In A Bad Mood ***
  
• Writers Block
  
• When You’ve Lost Motivation To Write A Novel ***
  
• What To Do When The Words Won’t Flow ***
  
• 9 Ways To Be A More Productive Writer
  
• “I Cannot Write A Good Sentence Today” (How To Get Over It) ***
  
• Real Writing Advice ***

Info You Need To Know & Words You Didn’t Think Of

• A Writer’s Thesaurus ***
  
• Words To Describe… ***
  
• Words & Phrases To Use In Your Sex Scenes ***
  
• Colors (An Extensive List Of Colors)
  
• List Of Kinks & Fetishes ***
• List Of Elemental Abilities
  
• inkarnate.com : World Creator And Map Maker For Your Imaginary Setting
  
• Body Language Phrases
  
• List Of Legendary Creatures
  
• How To Write Magic
  
• Hairstyle References
  
• Hemingway : Writing Checker
  
• Body Types: Words To Describe Bodies and How They Move Around
  
• Poisonous Herbs and Plants ***
  
• The Psychology of Color
  
• The Meaning behind Rose color
  
• Types of Swords
  
• Color Symbolism
  
• How a handgun works
  
• How to Write a Eulogy
  
• Types of Crying
  
• Avoiding LGBTQ Stereotypes ***
  
• Superstitions and More
  
• The 12 Common Archetypes
  
• Language of Flowers
  
• 12 Realistic Woman Body Shapes
  

Using Feedback And Reviews

• Turning Negative Reviews Into Positive Ones ***
  
• Proofreading Marks : Easy Symbols To Make Reviewing/Feedback Easier ***
  

Authonomy
Teen Ink
Figment
Fiction Press
ReviewFuse

These Are Trusted Critique Sites 😉

Side note: the critique sites on the bottom of this post are totally up for criticism. I’ve never used them, but my writer friends have recommended them in the past and that is why they were included. If you’ve had negative experiences with them, that’s totally understandable and I encourage you to share in the comments. It will only help people who find this in the future. I just wanted to address several comments about those 5 sites.
Cheers x

I spy Reading Like A Writer on here 🙂 Thanks for including me, @wordsnstuff

Of course darling. Your posts are brilliant 👌🏻 @writerkaitlinm