Resources for Writers

UPDATE: This post is now a page.

Below you’ll find an index of resources for writers. It’s not a comprehensive index, but it is comprised mostly of stuff that I’ve found to be useful. It will grow in the future. Hopefully you find something new and useful, too.

• Character
  • Antagonist
    • 25 Things You Should Know About Antagonists
    • How To Write The Bad Guy
  • General
    • Constructing Characters
    • Creating Interesting Original Characters
    • Loving your characters too much
  • Protagonist
    • 25 Things You Should Know About Protagonists
• Editing
  • The art of editing
  • The Difference Between Drafting and Editing
• Grammar, Punctuation, etc.
  • General
    • Grammar Girl
    • HyperGrammar (University of Ottawa)
    • Writer’s Handbook (UW-Madison)
  • Specific Issues
    • Finding Commas in All the Wrong Places
    • How to use a semicolon
    • Passive Voice: When to Use It and When to Avoid It
    • Punctuation in Dialogue
• Plot
  • General
    • 22 #storybasics I’ve picked up in my time at Pixar
    • Spreadsheets for various plot structures
    • Story and Plot
    • Two useful plotting tips
  • Structure
    • Blake Snyder’s “Save The Cat!”
    • Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth (“Hero’s Journey”)
  • Six Act Two-Goal Structure
  • Three-Act Structure
    • Outlining a Novel in Three Acts
    • Plotting with three-act structure
• Point of View
  • General
    • Narrative Point of View: Some Considerations
    • Point of View, the Full Story
• Publishing
  • Self-Publishing
    • Advertising
      • Is it a waste of time?
      • What Works: Promo for Ebooks
    • Cover Design
      • Resources
        • Free
          • deviantArt (Creative Commons search)
          • Digital Comic Museum
          • Flickr (Creative Commons search)
          • Liam’s Pictures from Old Books
          • pixabay
          • Wikipedia Commons
    • General
      • Maybe This Will Help Someone
      • How I Write So Many Books
      • How to Sell Ebooks
      • How to sell loads of books
  • Traditional Publishing
• Social Media
  • Forums
    • AbsoluteWrite
    • KBoards
  • General
    • a writer’s starter guide to twitter
    • Twitter Guide For Authors & Illustrators
  • Google+ Communities
    • Digital Publishing
    • Writer’s Discussion Group
    • Writing Resources
• Software
  • Other
    • Commercial
      • Evernote
    • Free
      • FreeMind
      • wikidPad
  • Speciality Software
    • Commercial
      • Scrivener
    • Free
      • yWriter
  • Text Editors
    • Commercial
      • Sublime Text
    • Free
      • Emacs
  • The Woodnotes Guide to Emacs for Writers
  • Notepad++
  • Q10
  • Vim
    • The Woodnotes Guide to Vim for Writers
    • Using Vim for writing Prose
    • Writing in Vim
  • Writemonkey
  • Word Processors
    • Commercial
      • Microsoft Word
    • Free
      • Apache OpenOffice Writer
      • FocusWriter
      • Google Docs
      • LibreOffice Writer
• Websites
  • General
    • A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing
    • The Other Side of the Story
    • The Passive Voice
    • Wordplay
  • Distribution
    • Amazon
    • Apple iTunes
    • Barnes & Noble
    • Feedbooks
    • Google Play
    • Kobo
    • Smashwords
• World Building
  • General
    • 7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding
    • A critique of world building