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  1. Comprehensive Character Profile Sheet
    Includes a personality-specific variant and the detailed original version. - by Dean Stride
    Updated: May 21, 2014
  2. Writing with Color: Words for Skin Tone
    A blog dedicated to writing and resources centered on racial & ethnic diversity. - by Spacer
    Updated: Nov 8, 2017
  3. Fake Identity
    Generate an identity by country and country of residence - by Lifeline
    Updated: Nov 21, 2016
  4. Tips if you want to write a blind character
    What's it like to be blind? - by Link the Writer
    Updated: May 16, 2016
  5. The Passion of Former Days
    The look and feel of yesteryear - by Wreybies
    Updated: Apr 22, 2014
  6. How Steinbeck used his diary
    steinbecks journal while writing grapes of wrath - by minstrel
    Updated: Jul 30, 2019
  7. A Woman in Berlin DVD (and book)
    Good resource material for anyone writing about the aftermath of WW2 - by Lifeline
    Updated: Sep 14, 2017
  8. Tips from a publisher
    Originally posted by Kaeso - translated from a norwegian writing blog - by kaeso
    Updated: Aug 12, 2017
  9. From Dictatorship to Democracy
    How to topple a regime. - by Scot
    Updated: Aug 21, 2016
  10. Springhole.net
    Articles about every possible aspect of creating a story - by Simpson17866
    Updated: Apr 5, 2016

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  1. Comprehensive Character Profile Sheet

    Includes a personality-specific variant and the detailed original version.
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  1. EFMingo

    Essay Writing Skills Handbook

    EFMingo, Nov 7, 2020
    University constructed handbook on essay writing.
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    Nov 7, 2020
  2. Stormburn

    Fear and Writing with Emma Newman

    Stormburn, Jul 30, 2019
    Writing excuses podcast
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    Jul 30, 2019
  3. BayView

    Digging deeper in writing

    BayView, Jul 30, 2019
    An example of how mundane events can have deeer meanings
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    Jul 30, 2019
  4. Iain Aschendale

    Cory Doctorow Cold Equations and Moral Hazard

    Iain Aschendale, Jul 30, 2019
    This is an interesting article by Cory Doctorow on the limiting situations that characters face
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    Jul 30, 2019
  5. Steerpike

    Shirley Jackson talks about writing

    Steerpike, Jul 30, 2019
    Newyorker article
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    Jul 30, 2019
  6. big soft moose

    To busy to focus?

    big soft moose, Jul 30, 2019
    Few people need convincing that intense focus is a good thing, the challenge is acheiving it
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    Jul 30, 2019
  7. Dunning Kruger

    Zadie Smith on writing

    Dunning Kruger, Jul 30, 2019
    Zadie Smith on the Psychology of the Two Types of Writers
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    Jul 30, 2019
  8. Steerpike

    Sci Fi's Difficult genius : Gene Wolf

    Steerpike, Jul 30, 2019
    New Yorker article on SF/F author Gene Wolfe
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    Jul 30, 2019
  9. minstrel

    How Steinbeck used his diary

    minstrel, Jul 30, 2019
    steinbecks journal while writing grapes of wrath
    5/5, 1 rating
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    Jul 30, 2019
  10. Megalith

    Mastering Style

    Megalith, Jul 30, 2019
    Lessons from Harvard : video
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    Jul 30, 2019
  11. Mckk

    Story telling tips from pixar

    Mckk, Jul 30, 2019
    a few of the company’s key ingredients to storytelling, useful for all aspiring writers
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    Jul 30, 2019
  12. jannert

    Inspirations for creating suspense

    jannert, Jul 30, 2019
    Elizabeth sims in the writers digest
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    Jul 30, 2019
  13. Ben414

    Interview with Emily Rawn

    Ben414, Jul 30, 2019
    13 year-old girl already has 2 published books
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    Jul 30, 2019
  14. jannert

    Respected Authors divulge 'rules for writing'

    jannert, Jul 30, 2019
    a periodically updated reading list of all the famous advice on writing
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    Jul 30, 2019
  15. NobodySpecial

    'Place' by Dorothy Allison 2018-03-20

    NobodySpecial, Mar 20, 2018
    A great essay on the definition and importance of a sense of place in story
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    Mar 20, 2018
  16. Spacer

    Writing with Color: Words for Skin Tone

    Spacer, Nov 8, 2017
    A blog dedicated to writing and resources centered on racial & ethnic diversity.
    5/5, 2 ratings
    Updated:
    Nov 8, 2017
  17. Lew

    Lew

    Lew, Oct 23, 2017
    He knows lots of useful stuff
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    Oct 23, 2017
  18. big soft moose

    The Great Nazi Counterfeiting plot

    big soft moose, Oct 23, 2017
    A declassified CIA report on Nazi attempts to wreck the British economy during WW2
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    Oct 23, 2017
  19. Stormburn

    Ten steps to win a writing competition

    Stormburn, Oct 21, 2017
    from the write practice
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    Oct 21, 2017
  20. NobodySpecial

    Passive Aggressive Behavior signs

    NobodySpecial, Oct 21, 2017
    a resource from Psych central
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    Oct 21, 2017
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