Actual Books That are Helpful Creative Novel Writing - Roselle Angwin Creating Character Emotions - Ann Hood Get That Novel Written! - Donna Levin
My Writing Role Models Laurell K. Hamilton - Is my main writing role model, not just because I love both her Merry Gentry and her Anita Blake series, but because she is also a super-cool person. Most writers, once they are successful seem to be quite distant from their readers, but Laurell makes herself, her writing, and her life very accessible through her blog, and I really like that. Nora Roberts - What strikes me about Nora Roberts is her writing speed! She gets tons of books out a year, and I like most of them. What makes her stand out is her sparkling dialogue. And the fact she writes eight hours a day - every day!
Writing Advice Inspired 2 Write - Shitloads of information! Writing Advice - Caro Clark - A series of no-nonsense articles on writing craft, including a small quiz on whether *you* are a real writer. Very clearly set out. The Novice Writer's RestStop - Novel-writing advice, some creative exercises, and more. Worth looking at. DOING IT WRITE - Huge bunch of articles on various aspects of writing.
Worldbuilding Sara Douglass: How To Create The Fantasy World FictionFactor - World Building - A series of articles which ask some thought provoking questions, and provide a basis to work upon when beginning a story set on a different plane/planet etc. Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions - By Patricia C. Wrede**Must See Page** Here are pages and pages of questions for you to answer when you are building your world. Covers just about everything, from custom, to religion, to biology and geology. The MythoPoets Manual - Guide to setting up religion and creating cultures on your world. Magical World Builder's Guide - While I found it a bit too basic, it has some good points. Guidelines to creating magic-systems The Language Construction Kit - For those who wish to constuct their own language(s) for the peoples of their world. World Builder's - Course on building your own world. Quite technical. On Creating an Earthlike Planet Building a world from scratch - Excellent guild to individual city-building Bard's Ink - Fantasy Fiction Writing - Big list of useful resources on writing fantasy & worldbuilding. The Domesday Book enables you to put in certain values, whereapon it will figure out how many villages, towns etc you have, and how many people from each trade is in them. Or, if you prefer to do it all yourself, or just to increase your understanding of what it is doing and what it all means, Medieval Demographics made easy is an article explaining the process. The Domesday Book is based on this article. Additionally, here is a list of earth countries and their landmass, which, by comparison, should help figure out how big your land is, which you need to know before you begin the demographics. Measuring Time is a comprehensive list of links to the different ways of measuring time, and keeping calenders that have been used over the centuries. Religious Tolerance.org has information on a huge number of religions, which may come in handy if you are inventing one for you world, or have one in mind that you need to know more about. The Household Encyclopedia - Information on Agriculture, Horticulture, Rural Economy, Cookery, Farriery, Medicine, Distillation etc etc etc! Perfect if your character lives in the medieval times, or on a farm, or is just a proud home owner. ** Must-see Site ** Enchanted Learning.com - I found this site when looking for pictures of big cats, and found they had information and pictures of a lot of animals. I figure this could be useful as a starting point when you are inventing things to put on your world. Technically, this is a kids page, but it has information on biomes, astonomy, animals and heaps more, all explained in a simple way. ** Recommended **
Miscellaneous deviantART.com - A place to display your songs/poems/stories etc, and receive comments on them if you wish to. Bowl of Writers' Cereal
Writing Tutorial - A set of questions designed to allow you to fully flesh out an idea for character + scene. Character Building Workshop - A series of indepth online questionaires for you to fill out with your character in mind. The answers allow you to delve into the personality of your characters, and assign them more traits that fit whichever psychological group they turn out to be in. Surprisingly useful. Turkey City Lexicon - An easy to read list of SF writing terms. Black on White - Encouragement site for writers; you sign a contract with yourself that you will write a certain novel in a certain time, and members will email you with encouragement/support etc if you request it. Interesting Concept.
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