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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. Describing POC Skin Color
    Easy Writing Tutorial To Improve Your Writing People of Color - by Stormburn
    Updated: Apr 19, 2021
  4. Fake Identity
    Generate an identity by country and country of residence - by Lifeline
    Updated: Nov 21, 2016
  5. Tips if you want to write a blind character
    What's it like to be blind? - by Link the Writer
    Updated: May 16, 2016
  6. Character Name Generator
    A web site for creating real and fantasy names. - by Allan Adams
    Updated: Feb 4, 2021
  7. How Steinbeck used his diary
    steinbecks journal while writing grapes of wrath - by minstrel
    Updated: Jul 30, 2019
  8. A Woman in Berlin DVD (and book)
    Good resource material for anyone writing about the aftermath of WW2 - by Lifeline
    Updated: Sep 14, 2017
  9. Tips from a publisher
    Originally posted by Kaeso - translated from a norwegian writing blog - by kaeso
    Updated: Aug 12, 2017
  10. From Dictatorship to Democracy
    How to topple a regime. - by Scot
    Updated: Aug 21, 2016

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  1. Steerpike

    20 writing tips from 12 fiction authors

    Steerpike, Sep 13, 2017
    Use these tips as an inspirational guide
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    Sep 13, 2017
  2. minstrel

    How to break all the rules

    minstrel, Sep 13, 2017
    This summer, we recommend doing something radical: break all the rules.
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    Sep 13, 2017
  3. Steerpike

    Nice article on michael moorcock

    Steerpike, Sep 13, 2017
    some interesting points about writing fiction
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    Sep 13, 2017
  4. big soft moose

    Military Writers Society of America

    big soft moose, Sep 13, 2017
    SAVING HISTORY ONE STORY AT A TIME
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  5. big soft moose

    Advanced Fiction writing

    big soft moose, Sep 13, 2017
    Created by Randy Ingermanson - "the Snowflake Guy" America's Mad Professor of Fiction Writing
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    Sep 13, 2017
  6. Jeff Countryman

    Outline method

    Jeff Countryman, Sep 13, 2017
    an example
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    Sep 13, 2017
  7. DeadMoon

    Dramatica theory

    DeadMoon, Sep 13, 2017
    Dramatica theorizes why stories exist and attempts to outline the processes and dramatic touchpoints
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    Sep 13, 2017
  8. Siena

    Vladimir Prop

    Siena, Sep 13, 2017
    Deconstructing Russian folktales & lessons on structure
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    Sep 13, 2017
  9. jannert

    Brain Pickings

    jannert, Sep 12, 2017
    A fabulous creativity and general writing site
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    Sep 12, 2017
  10. Lady Fickle

    Lady F's Impediments In Writing

    Lady Fickle, Aug 28, 2017
    Writing is hard. To an aspiring writer, it is even strenuous. Here are just some of my tribulations
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    Aug 28, 2017
  11. big soft moose

    Clandestine Pantheon Guerrilla repairers - Untergunther aka UX

    big soft moose, Aug 28, 2017
    Originally posted by Gannon
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    Aug 28, 2017
  12. Wreybies

    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

    Wreybies, Aug 28, 2017
    The science behind the mass of trash accumulating in the Pacific
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    Aug 28, 2017
  13. big soft moose

    Toronto star series on sweatshops and exploitation

    big soft moose, Aug 28, 2017
    original posted by Duchess Yukine-Suoh
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  14. Steerpike

    David Foster Wallace on how to argue persuasively

    Steerpike, Aug 28, 2017
    2006 interview of David Foster Wallace conducted by Bryan Garner
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    Aug 28, 2017
  15. Mckk

    Pixar's storytelling rules

    Mckk, Aug 27, 2017
    info graphic of useful techinques
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    Aug 27, 2017
  16. Stormburn

    Orbis : the Stanford geospatial network model of the roman world

    Stormburn, Aug 17, 2017
    An online tool showing the difficulties of transport in the roman empire
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    Aug 17, 2017
  17. Sister Sinister

    Fighting writers block

    Sister Sinister, Aug 14, 2017
    originally by sister sinister
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    Aug 14, 2017
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    Tips from a newbie on overcoming problems

    big soft moose, Aug 13, 2017
    Originally by Onsie Writes
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    Aug 13, 2017
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    Alain Robbe-Grillet on form

    peachalulu, Aug 12, 2017
    Originally posted by Peachalulu
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    Aug 12, 2017
  20. big soft moose

    Why writers are the worst procrastinators

    big soft moose, Aug 12, 2017
    Originally posted by David K Thommassen
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    Aug 12, 2017
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