(Updated 02/01/21) Hey all, I’ve got quite a few writing advice posts & answered Asks on my blog at this point, so I’m making this reference guide to make it easier to find what you’re looking for. Hope it helps!
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Books
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General
- 8 Ways to Improve Your Writing
- 10 Best Books About Writing Fiction
- How to Spot Bad Writing Advice: 6 Red Flags to Look For
- “Show Don’t Tell”? Not Always. Here’s When to Use Summary
- How to start a story
- More about starting stories
- The first sentence
- Weak words
- Why Just About Every Published Book in the World Does 57 Things That Just About Every Book About Writing Tells You Not to Do
- Creative Nonfiction Cliches to Avoid
- How to Read Like a Writer
- How to Write During a Pandemic
The Writing Process, Writer’s Block, & Inspiration
- To all the Writers Suffering from Depression
- How to Train Yourself to Write Faster
- Just a friendly reminder that creativity is difficult to quantify.
- Quick Writing Tip: Make a Note to Your Future Self in Your WIP
- Quick Writing Tip: Take Notes!
- Just a friendly reminder that writing is not always a linear process.
- Quick Cure for Writer’s Block: Lower Your Expectations
- Set Realistic Goals
- Your Skills May Need Time to Catch Up to Your Vision
- It’s Okay to Experiment and Be Weird As Fuck
- Surround Yourself With Supporters
- It’s okay to take a break.
- Your First Draft is Raw Material
- Getting into “The Zone”
- Vomit Brain
- Writing from Your Imagination vs. Reality
- Dealing with Criticism
- Getting Bored with Your Own Writing
- Getting past a block
- Doing research on topics you don’t have first-hand experience with
- Journalling about your writing
- How to Keep Yourself From Editing As You Write
- Advice for Getting Over a Writing Slump
- Dealing with Procrastination
- How to Write Like You Used to, Before You Learned Stuff that Fucked Up Your Natural Creative Flow and Turned Your Writing into Boring, Stilted Garbage
- Concept: Maybe Your First Draft DOESN’T Suck
- How to Deal with Post-Writing Depression
- Being Flexible With Your Writing Routine
Character Development
- Creating Character Arcs with the DCAST Method
- What Does Your Main Character Want?
- How to Activate Your Passive Characters, One Verb at a Time
- How to Use Description to Show Character Development
- How to Create a Non-Cliched First-Meeting Scene
- The “It Depends” Post
- Shifting internal goals
- When to identify your character’s goal
- Writing about normal people with normal problems
- If you’re worried about your character being too similar to someone else’s character
- Describing your characters without messing up your pacing
Story, Plot, & Pacing
- Quick Plotting Tip: Write Your Story Backwards
- Pause at the Threshold
- How to Spot an “Info-dump”
- Slowing Down the Pace of Your Story Without Boring Your Reader
- Time Transitions
- How to Create a Non-Cliched First-Meeting Scene
- Creating Conflict
- When & how to cut a scene
- If you’re good at creating characters but awful at creating plot
- When you’ve plotted your story but can’t get started
- En Media Res
- Writing to Your Ideal Reader
- Deus Ex Machina
- Foreshadowing
- Finding an Ending
- What to write between moments of conflict
- Starting a story with waking-up scene
- How to Know When You’re Done Outlining
- Doing a Structural Overhaul on Your Story
- How to Find an Ending from a Beginning
- Editing Tip: How to Speed Up or Slow Down Your Pacing
- Adding Stakes to Your Story
Description, Setting, & Worldbuilding
- How to Make Your Descriptions Less Boring
- How to Spot an “Info-dump”
- Adding Descriptions to Intense Scenes Without Messing Up Your Story’s Flow
- How to Use Description to Show Character Development
- Worldbuilding: How much is too much?
- Modeling your fantasy world from stuff in the real world
- Internal Consistency
- Utilizing Sound
- How to Do World-Building Research
- 5 Tips for Writing Great Descriptions
Point of View
- How to Choose the Right Point of View for Your Story
- A Beginner’s Guide to Multiple Point of View
- 6 Questions to Ask About Your Point of View
- How to decide if you should use first person or third person
- More point of view basics
- Head hopping
- How to Head Hop without Head Hopping
- What to Do When You’re Halfway Through Your Story and Realize Your POV Isn’t Working
- 3 Tips to Avoid Overusing “I” in a First Person Story
Dialogue
- How to Improve Your Dialogue
- 3 Ways to Make Your Dialogue More Interesting
- Starting a story with dialogue
- Are You Using Too Much Stage Direction?
- Which is Better: Exposition or Expository Dialogue?
Publishing & Sharing Your Work
- 7 Tips to Build an Audience for Your Writing
- Pros and Cons of Self Publishing
- Quick Publishing Tip: Don’t Bury Your Gold
- How to Properly Format Your Manuscript for Publication
- A warning about posting writing online that you intend to publish later
- Advice for writers who are worried about people stealing their work or ideas
- Getting feedback on your writing
- How to Create a Cover Letter for a Literary Magazine or Journal
- How to Make a 3D Mockup of Your Book for Free
Editing
- 10 Questions to Ask an Editor Before Hiring Them
- Quick Revision Tip: Read Your Writing Out Loud
- How to Keep Yourself From Editing As You Write
- Cut the fidgeting
- Are you suffering from -ing disease?
- Are you Using Too Much Stage Direction?
- What “Editing” Really Means
- Quick Editing Tip: “That”
- Quick Revision Tip: Read Faster
- Editing Tip: Dialogue
- Tips for Editing a Story
- Should You Use a Contract When Hiring an Editor?
- Quick Tip: Up & Down
- Pre-Editing Checklist
Miscellaneous
…if you find any broken links please let me know and I will fix them! xo
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The Literary Architect is a writing advice blog run by me, Bucket Siler. For more writing help, get my FREE Fiction Writing Toolkit or The Complete Guide to Self-Editing for Fiction Writers. xoxo
A few people have messaged me that the Why Just About Every Published Book in the World Does 57 Things That Just About Every Book About Writing Tells You Not to Do link is broken. I’ve fixed it in the updated version of the post guide which you can access from the main menu of my blog, but there are a LOT of reblogs out there with the old link. So here it is:
Thanks to the folks that pointed out this was broken. Always happy to get messages letting me know when stuff isn’t working. xo
mercoledì 10 febbraio 2021
Writing Advice Posts: A Handy Reference Guide
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