General Fiction Resources
THE FIRST LINE (Creativity Starter) - Submit your fiction or nonfiction work to this magazine that was designed to explore the different direction writers may take when they start from the same place. They give you the first line and you write the rest.
Free articles for writers - Most are available as .PDF files which needs Adobe Acrobat. Subjects include writing online, query letters, bios, literary agents, and editors.
Understanding the Process of Storytelling - The process of constructing a story from idea to premise to movement to plot to fulfillment.
Unfolding a Story from a First Sentence - A review of the opening pages of Isaac Bashevis Singer's Meshugah that explores how the story unfolds from its first sentence
Remember F-A-D! F-A-D refers to the correct order in which to present the three elements of dialogue mode in fiction: Feeling/thought - Action - Dialogue
Text and your story’s subtext - Give your readers the equation, but let them do the math. It’s more fulfilling, and keeps your reader engaged, when you let your story’s subtext reveal itself.
[Bracket] shorthand helps you draft with lightning speed - Imagine a shorthand that works for complex storytelling as well as true shorthand works for speeding up general writing. A writer’s shorthand does exist, with the use of placeholding “things-yet-to-be-written” in brackets.