Table of Contents

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Getting Started: Revision Tools and Tips

• Reframing Failure: Revision is a State of Mind by Rosiee Thor
• How to Write Yourself an Edit Letter by Rachel Griffin
• Building a Revision Toolbox by Jenny Howe
• Kick-Ass Craft Books to Help You March into Battle! by Julie Artz
• Making the Time to Write by Susan Lee
• Writing Inspiration: Top 5 Lessons from my Year of Writing by Tara Tsai

 

Character

• Character Driven Narratives: Charting Character Agency by Rosiee Thor
• Character Motivation: The Why Behind the Action by Jessica James and Rosiee Thor
• Creating Compelling Secondary Characters by Marisa Kanter
• So, You Wrote a Marginalized Protagonist by Gail Villanueva
• Twice the POVs, Twice the Fun! (Kind Of) by Rachel Lynn Solomon
• Villains by Rebecca Schaeffer
• Antiheroes by Rebecca Schaeffer
• Voice Writing Words that Sing by Hannah Capin

 

World Building

• More than Just a Backdrop: How to Create a Fully Immersive Setting by Christine Lynn Herman
• Contemporary Worldbuilding by Rebecca Barrow
• Political Worldbuilding by Hannah F. Whitten
• Worldbuilding Ripple Effects: Steering Social Worldbuilding with Purpose by Rosiee Thor
• Economic Worldbuilding: How Class, Economy, and Money Affects Your Characters by Sarena and Sasha Nanua
• Bad Air, Good Writing: An Argument for the Consideration of Medical History when World Building by Linsey Miller
• Technology in Worldbuilding by Rachel Somer
• Worldbuilding and Linguistics by Lora Beth Johnson
• Perspective in Worldbuilding by Elisabeth Funk
• Worlds are Built with Small, Specific, Unexpected Details by Carly Heath
• Magic Systems by Christine Calella
• Folklore by Tori Bovalino
• Papa Do Preach: Worldbuilding a Religion by Jessica Bibi Cooper
• Organic Worldbuilding by Kalyn Josephson

Structure and Pacing

• Story Structure Overview by Cass Frances
• Identifying Structure in your Novel by Erin Cotter
• The 3 Act 9 Block 27 Chapter Method by Kat O’Keefe
• The (Quiet) Hero’s Journey by Lyndall Kate Clipstone
• Atmospheric Pacing by Taylor Brooke Barton
• Epistolary Pacing by Lana Wood Johnson
• Analyzing the Differences between Middle Grade and Young Adult by Alyssa Coleman

Scene Level Writing

• Brick by Brick: How to Build a Scene from the Ground Up by Louisa Onomé
• Building Palaces Out of Paragraphs: Sentence Linkage in V. E. Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic by Phoebe Low
• In the Study. With the Candlestick: How to Revise Dialogue-Heavy Scenes by Sam B Farkas
• What is Scaffolding? by Cass Frances
• Cutting Words by Naseem Jamnia

Querying and Beyond

• What your Novel Pitch Might Tell You by Joan F. Smith