HERE is a great links page with some good writing podcasts!
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10 Creativity Boosting Techniques
Writing is a creative process. Most of the time, it’s just you and your brain, clicking away at that story. It’s not always easy to connect with that creativity, though. […]
Short-short: Cross Genre Novels
HERE’S a good link to an article from Writer’s Digest – writing a cross-genre novel
The Writer’s Guide to Eavesdropping
Writers are incurable eavesdroppers — and we should be. It’s our job to create believable characters, and in order to create, you have to understand. Thus, we spend a great […]
Short-Shorts: WikiAnswers Category
HERE’S a link to the WikiAnswers.com Creative Writing category … supervised by Yours Truly, of course. Browse through the questions and you might learn something interesting!
Short-shorts: Photos of the Wild West
Legends of America has a great PHOTO GALLERY – tons of photos of the Old West for research.
Short-Shorts: Last Names
HERE’S another little website I found while researching – it’s a LAST name generator for your characters, using US census data.
365 Days: Writing Prompts
Lots of writers enjoy exercise – not the sort where you jog around the block, but where you have a writing prompt and spend a few minutes working out your […]
21 Rules For Writers
Here are some more guidelines from the masters Keith Waterhouse’s Ground Rules for Writers Use specific words (red and blue) not general ones (brightly coloured). Use concrete words (rain, fog) […]
Short-Shorts: Western Plot Kickers
Stephen Bly has a nice little blog with some realistic plot kickers for those of you who also write Westerns!