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Writing tips:

1. Writing mysteries for children’s magazine
2. Writer Beware Blogs!
3. LifeReboot
4. Manuscript Format: Short Story
5. Keep me in suspense
6. Writers Digest
7. Fiction Factor
8. The different types of fiction
9. Different types of editing
10. Composition patterns: narrative and descriptive
11. Fiction writing tips: story grid
12. Short Stories: 10 Tips for Novice Creative Writers
13. Short story writing: 10 beginnings to avoid
14. Short story writing: 10 endings to avoid
15. Four Essential Phases Of A Great Story
16. Tell a story!
17. 3 reasons why you should use storytelling
18. Anthropomorphism: the ancient storytelling tool
19. Have you established your main character at the start?
20. Writerisms and other Sins: A Writer’s Shortcut to Stronger Writing
21. 5 killer ways to improve your writing right now
22. How to write your own manga
23. Angle on writing: character development
24. Breathing life into characters
25. 8 unstoppable rules for writing killer short stories
26. Tips for writing effective dialogue
27. Tips on finding great ideas for a short story or novel
28. Tips for writing a fantasy novel
29. How to write a novel: advice and guidelines on writing fiction
30. Write clearer story themes
31. Fantasy writing tips for fantasy writer
32. Ten tips to help you finish your novel
33. 5 tips for realistic characters
34. Crafting the braided narrative
35. Story structure and plot
36. Out of your head
37. The Writer’s friend
38. How to tell a great story
39. Could you be the next John Grisham?
40. How to write a novel the snowflake method
41. Top 10 writing tips to help you write more
42. Zen power writing: 15 tips on how to generate ideas and write with ease
43. Writing tips for aspiring romance authors
44. Ernest Hemingway’s top 5 tips for writing well
45. Fiction writing tips
46. Tips from Masters
47. However, thank you for your interest…
48. Making light: slushkiller
49. Are kids’ books boring?
50. What a writer needs to know about editors & agents
51. Writing world
52. Has fiction lost its power?
53. Using character sheets in fiction writing
54. Understanding the power of fan fiction for young authors
55. English teacher and noir fiction writer shares his love of words
56. Exploring the persuasive power of fiction
57. On writing science fiction and fantasy for kids
58. Fiction writing for dummies
59. 7 book writing secrets that make your book sales soar
60. Clean up your narration
61. Story flow
62. BEWARE agents
63. Helping you get published
64. Detail & Dialogue
65. Speaking of dialogue
66. Writer’s Digest: 101 best sites
67. Setting effective writing goals
68. How to write with style
69. Tips on writing better dialogue
70. Get your book published
71. How to write a story
72. Avoiding too much back story
73. The keys to marketing your book
74. 5 simple marketing tips from M.J. Rose
75. Don’t be a writing diva
76. Dailywritingtips
77. Turning a novel into a screenplay
78. From idea to published book
79. The purple crayon
80. Books for writers
81. How editors might change stories
82. Will the editor steal my idea?
83. Publishing Advice from Jeanette Perez from HarperCollins Publishers
84. How people read on the web
85. Get the best of your writer’s block
86. Resources for romance writers
87. A WritersDigest.tv Video Exclusive with bestselling author Lee Child
88. Surviving the spite
89. Don’t write for PIE
90. Highlights for children
91. Warnings and cautions for writers
92. The fantasy novelist’s exam
93. The top 10 tips on storytelling and making an impact

AMWC Members share:

1. moontique: how to start writing
2. sarahcoldheart’s tips on getting published
3. Moontales

About writing and its art:

1. Findcliches
2. From Hairdresser to comic book writer
3. Writer of steel
4. A comics writer…Kurt Busiek
5. Bestselling author plots a new career in comics
6. Finding the right editor
7. Publishing in Singapore
8. Author-ized articles
9. Advice to aspiring writers
10. Tips for fiction writers
11. Short stories vs novels
12. On writing in English
13. 8 rules of writing
14. Learn from the Greats: 7 writing habits of amazing writers

Publishing tips:

1. How to self publish a book
2. “Manuscripts Wanted” – questions you should ask the publisher before you sign
3. Getting published
4. So you wanna get a short story published
5. Writing a query to editors and agents
6. Where to submit your fiction work
7. 4 ways to market your self-published book
8. What do you think about self-published books?
9. Self-publishing book production & marketing mistakes to avoid
10. How to self-publish for profit
11. How to publish your short stories
12. why people hate self-published authors
13. Buried in the slush pile
14. Getting out of the slush pile
15. The shocking truth about the slush pile
16. How to outsource the slush pile
17. Secrets of book publishing I wish I had known
18. Mathworld publishing woes: a valuable lesson
19. Self-publishing gets an extreme makeover
20. Is this the way to publish your book?
21. Self-publishing success stories
22. 10 disciplines for fiction writers
23. Creating special characters
24. Answers from Agents

Writing sites:

1. Fictionpress
2. Scribd

Writers’ networking / platforms:

1. Writers.net
2. Nanowrimo
3. QLRS
4. Silverfishbooks
5. Startastory
6. Write4Kids
7. Authonomy
8. GenReality
9. Poets & Writers
10. Editor Unleashed

Submission Guidelines from foreign publishers:

1. Strange Horizons
2. BL Twist
3. Snowbooks

Submission Guidelines from Singaporean publishers:

1. AsiapacBooks
2. Flame of the Forest
3. Monsoon Books
4. Graham Brash Publishing
5. Renaissance Publishing

Online self-publishing sites:

1. Lulu.com
2. Amazon: digital text platform
3. BookSurge

Understand your rights & copyrights:

1. Understanding rights and copyrights
2. Rights: what they mean and why they’re important
3. How to recycle your writing and get away with it
4. Copyright guide for newsletter editors in Singapore

Editors:

1. Two Trees

Writing contests from all over the world:

1. SHOMI
2. Tokyopop Rising Stars of Prose

Writing grants & schemes in Singapore:

1. NAC – literary arts financial assistance and development
   

Literary Agents:

1. Paul Rozario
2. Geraldine Cooke
3. Bookends, LLC
4. JABberwocky

Writing tools:

1. RoughDraft
2. WordWeb Pro
3. Mindmap freeware
4. Celtx
5. Scribus

ISBN & legal deposit:

1. NLB deposit
2. ISBN registration (Singapore)

Other types of writing – freelance:

1. The top 100 freelancer blogs
2. Writing 101