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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. Crafting the braided narrative
33. Out of your head
34. The Writer’s friend
35. How to tell a great story
36. How to write a novel the snowflake method
37. Top 10 writing tips to help you write more
38. Zen power writing: 15 tips on how to generate ideas and write with ease
39. Writing tips for aspiring romance authors
40. Fiction writing tips
41. Tips from Masters
42. However, thank you for your interest…
43. Making light: slushkiller
44. What a writer needs to know about editors & agents
45. Writing world
46. Has fiction lost its power?
47. Using character sheets in fiction writing
48. Understanding the power of fan fiction for young authors
49. English teacher and noir fiction writer shares his love of words
50. Exploring the persuasive power of fiction
51. 7 book writing secrets that make your book sales soar
52. Clean up your narration
53. Story flow
54. Helping you get published
55. Detail & Dialogue
56. Speaking of dialogue
57. Writer’s Digest: 101 best sites
58. Setting effective writing goals
59. Tips on writing better dialogue
60. Get your book published
61. How to write a story
62. Avoiding too much back story
63. The keys to marketing your book
64. 5 simple marketing tips from M.J. Rose
65. Don’t be a writing diva
66. Dailywritingtips
67. Turning a novel into a screenplay
68. From idea to published book
69. The purple crayon
70. Books for writers
71. Will the editor steal my idea?
72. Publishing Advice from Jeanette Perez from HarperCollins Publishers
73. How people read on the web
74. Get the best of your writer’s block
75. Resources for romance writers
76. A WritersDigest.tv Video Exclusive with bestselling author Lee Child
77. Surviving the spite
78. Don’t write for PIE
79. Highlights for children
80. Warnings and cautions for writers
81. The fantasy novelist’s exam
82. The top 10 tips on storytelling and making an impact

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. Author-ized articles
7. Advice to aspiring writers
8. Tips for fiction writers
9. On writing in English
10. 8 rules of writing
11. 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. What do you think about self-published books?
8. Self-publishing book production & marketing mistakes to avoid
9. How to self-publish for profit
10. How to publish your short stories
11. why people hate self-published authors
12. Buried in the slush pile
13. Getting out of the slush pile
14. The shocking truth about the slush pile
15. How to outsource the slush pile
16. Secrets of book publishing I wish I had known
17. Self-publishing gets an extreme makeover
18. Is this the way to publish your book?
19. Self-publishing success stories
20. 10 disciplines for fiction writers
21. Creating special characters

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. Editor Unleashed

Submission Guidelines from foreign publishers:

1. Strange Horizons

Submission Guidelines from Singaporean publishers:

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

Editors:

1. Two Trees

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. 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