Fiction Writing


"To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish for you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime.

I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make the fine stories--science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world."--Ray Bradbury

Getting Started


04How to Get Started with Your Writing

Author Mania -- So You Want to be an Author

What Is a Writer

Outlining Darcy Pattison

Basics for Beginning Writers

Dara Girard - Articles - Uncommon Advice for Beginning Novelists

Advice to New Writers

Caro Clarke writing advice column 3 Beginners' Four Faults

I'll add my own advice here: read, read, read! -- M.Jo Taylor



Story


Understanding What a Story Is -- An Essay by Bill Johnson

The Golden Quill



Publishing


Publishing Law Center



Highly Recommended:

Writer Beware!

Preditors and Editors



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