Elements of Building A Story Part 2: Mechanics, Editing, Transitions & Contests
Updated & Organized 12/16/2015 This page is 1 of 9 contents pages reworked from one single page to several for readability and accessibility.
What are strong verbs or action verbs?
- List of Action Verbs
- List of strong Verbs
- Using Strong Verbs University of Houston Writing Center
- Awesome Action Verbs University of West Georgia
HOW TO WRITE BOOK REVIEWS
MUST VISIT WEBSITES FOR WRITING
CONFLICT
MANUSCRIPTION REVISION, EDITS & OTHER
- One-Pass Manuscript Revision: From First Draft to Last in One Cycle © by Holly Lisle All Rights Reserved
- 101 Writing Tips To Improve Your Writing Today Bryan Collins on Write To Done
- Six Ways To Self-Edit & Polish Your Prose Kristen Lamb’s Blog
- We’re Ready for Revision Pre-Flight: 10 Self-Editing Tips By Janice Hardy Fiction University
EDITING SERVICES
- Silver Jay Media Editing services Excellent for those who intend to self-publish. Writing something is hard work. Writing something good is even harder, so take a look what the Silver Jay can offer to help you get from first draft to published in no time! Affordable pricing, Excellent service.
DECONSTRUCTING FOR STUDY, RESEARCH & LEARNING FROM OTHER NOVELS
- Deconstructing Bestselling Novels, One Doodle at a Time.
- Research & its Value for all Authors from Chris McMullen
- What We Can Learn from J.K. Rowling’s Series Gridby C.S. Plocher on Novel Writing Project
- The Ultimate Amazon Kindle Spy Tool “New Unique Software Application ‘Reverse Engineers’ The Kindle Marketplace & Reveals Lucrative Kindle Niches – In Seconds!” Introducing KDSPY v4
STUDYING CRAFT: FIRST PAGES
- First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: Live Write Thrive
- Learn to Write: Top Writing Posts of 2015 K M Weiland
STORY SCENE TRANSITIONS
- Mastering Scene Transitions by Fiction Editor Beth Hill
- Scene transitions in fiction by Bruce Byfield
- Pulse on Pacing: How Smooth Transitions Keep Your Story Moving by Angela Ackerman
SYMBOLISM IN YOUR NOVELS
IMPROVING WRITING
- You have a natural ability to fascinate others that you may or may not be taking full advantage of. Read more here–>Sally Hogshead on How You Can Unlock Your Natural Ability to Fascinate from Copyblogger
- PRODUCTIVITY FOR WRITERS by Chris Perry at Mash Stories
- How to Become The Writer You Were Always Meant To Be by Bryan Hutchinson Positive Writer
- RESOURCES FOR WRITERS
- Study the masters, pen the prompts, hone the skills! RideThePen.com
- Scared to Write What You Really Think? Why it Will Make You a Better Writer BY Deena Nataf on Write To Done
- Bulletproof Writing! Deena Nataf
WRITER PRODUCTIVITY
- PRODUCTIVITY FOR WRITERS by Chris Perry Mash Stories
- THE BENEFITS OF DAILY WORD QUOTAS by Robyn Bradley Mash Stories
WORDINESS
WRITING MISTAKES
- Most Common Writing Mistakes, Pt. 48: No Conflict Between Characters K M Weiland Helping Writer’s Become Authors
- The 5-Step Process that Solves 3 Painful Writing Problems Written by BRIAN CLARK CopyBlogger
WRITING MECHANICS
- The Creative Penn On Writing
- 7 Ways to Help You Be Precise in Your Writing by Dawn Fields on Live Write Thrive
GRAMMAR STUFF: ADVERBS & COMMAS
- How to Eliminate “To-Be” Verbs in Writing June 12th, 2009 | Mark Pennington, MA Reading Specialist Pennington Publishing Blog
- A Tale of Adverbs & Commas The Editor’s Blog Beth Hill
- Homophones. A Spell Check Nightmare. by Anna Simpson on Elements of Emaginette
- The Basics of Clauses in English SHUNDALYN ALLEN Grammarly
- Improving Your Writing Will Improve Your Thinking GRAMMARLY
REVISING, EDITION & WHAT IT MEANS
WRITING CONTESTS
- 20 Tips For Winning Writing Contests From Daily Writing Tips
- Writer’s Digest Contests
- Mash Story Competition
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