Writing Resources

[oakstone730]

This post is being made just because I'm tired of trying to remember where I read/saved XYZ writing reference link that I saw posted. Hopefully if I create one post I can add all the bookmarks/notes that I find so I can look one place instead of twenty.

** This is a work in progress ** If you have a website/resource that you've found very helpful, let me know about it!

Writing 101 (aka What I should've read before I wrote my first fanfic, instead of afterwards and now I have 1000 epithets that need to be edited out)
A (Beginner's) Guide to Fanfiction by faithwood
Open Letter to Bad FanFic Writers by jeyhawk (Relatively quick list of 36 foibles that beginning writers have, I like that s/he uses a lot of examples.)

WTF Does A Sunset Look Like? (aka descriptive prose)
Emotions (descriptions of the physical reactions to emotions...)
Geography Descriptors
Descriptive Words

Writing Sex Scenes
Writing Smut by omi_ohmy
Gay Sex is All Wrong in FanFic by reverie_indigo and its follow-up (yes, he makes generalizations, but good info is included. Updated as of May 1)
Masterlist of sorts
Sex Tips for Slash Writers Classic sex guide for writers - it is static as the creator has passed away, but contains lots of good info.

Related Resources
Essentia Whips
Bull Whip Info (includes videos of techniques. Requires Quicktime)

Creating Three Dimensional Characters
So You Want to Write an OC
Occupational Outlook Handbook (Great for looking up vocational information. United States)
Masterlist of links for picking character names
Typical Characteristics of 'Bad Guys'
Charahub.com Site for keeping track of your characters and their characteristics. Haven't used it, but looks like it has a lot of potential.

Everything Ms Espeseth Tried to Teach Me But I Failed to Learn (Grammar Rules)
Lay Vs  Laid (don't get me started on layed)
Grammar 101

Harry Potter Resources
Timelines for all the books
Characters
Potterwords! (why haven't I not heard about this resource before! Thanks, digthewriter!)

Brit-Picking (which I should use but usually I just pester folks over on Twitter)
British/American Terms by Oxford Dictionaries
Google Streetview (I use this and Google Earth all the time to get 'a lay of the land' from across the pond)

Referencey Things That Don't Fit Anywhere Else
Apps for Writers
Keyboard Shortcuts
Writing Resources/Software Masterlist
Blood Loss
Writer's Archive Collection of Resources
MasterList from Tumblr- Characters, Jobs, Locations, Gender, SmutWriting, Grammar, Art, etc.

Comments

[digthewriter]

Potterwords!

[oakstone730.livejournal.com]

!!!! I've never seen this before! How useful would this have been to know about for the last, say, THREE YEARS!!