Resources for Writers

[originally posted by Olly Buckle in The Writers' Lounge]

Piglet's Picks

Some of these are good threads, some good posts, they are all things which strike us as useful, or at least worth a look at.

Beware some contain off-site links over which we have no control, follow them on your own initiative.

I have called it “Piglet’s picks” because Piglet from Portugal has done most of the grunt work (Blame amsawtell for the pun, it was too good to miss) seeking out these posts, thank you PiP. I have simply put them in order of the boards on which they appear.

If you see anything you think worthy of adding to this list please post it below or notify me of it and I will edit it in.

Keep an eye on the thread, people are passing stuff on all the time, a new post is usually a new link, go to the post and you will not have to read through the list to see what's new since you last looked.

Posting and Critiquing
The Dark Art Of Posting
Need a Critique?
Strange Uncle George's Tips and Tactics
Reviewers' Handbook

Techie Stuff
How to make symbols with keyboard.
Stuff You May Not Know How To Do
Formatting for Kindle DeMystified

Writers' Resources
Plagiarism, copyrighting, and trademarks
Copyright Basics
Writing Advice from Thirty Published Authors
World Building Interview
D.I.Y Publishing

Writing - Hints and Tips
Homonym confusions!
Advice to those writing long stories(especially if using multiple POV's)
Clear and Concise
Compound Adjectives
Letters of Note: You've got to sell your heart
World Building Interview
The Balance between Detail and Imagination (This is a thread from writing discussions about balance in a piece, there are some excellent replies throughout, but post 18 determined it's place here.)

Poetic Discussion - Hints and Tips
On critiques and replies
Basics of Free Verse Poetry
What the reader expects
Teach me Metaphor
Writing A Poem Based On A Picture
Rules for poetry

Other Useful Resources (off-site)
Perfect Pitch (Book Publishers Accepting Submissions by Category)
A Guide to Rhetoric
A Guide to Verse Forms aimed at the would-be Poet/
Dealing with rejection by famous authors
Encyclopedia of Mythology (should be useful to fantasy writers)


[Reorganised by the original Piglet, PiP]