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Beginners/Learning to write

1. 7 Tips for New Writers
2. Frequently Asked Questions
3. The Basics by Melisa Michaels
4. Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them by Melisa Michaels
5. Stay With the Story - how to keep going when writing becomes a chore.
6. Outlines
7. 5 Story elements Summary
8. Hard Facts

   Tips & Story Elements

9. The Opening Action Cliché
10. The Horror Cliché
11. Cliché - Old Hat
12. Short Dialogue
13. 3 Classic hooks
14. Objects - A Writing Exercise
15. Adverbs are usually,completely, totally, unneeded.
16. To be or not to be, that is the question
17. Turkey City Lexicon edited by Lewis Shiner
18. Plotting Exercise
19. 4 Dialogue Tips
20. Subtext- The delicate art of doublespeak.
21. Style
22. Plot
23. Genre
24. Group Writing
25. Collaboration

    Query Letters, Proposals & Cover Letters

26. The Complete Nobody's Guide to Query Letters by Lynn Flewelling
27. Paul Riddell Revisited: Placing 'SFWA Member' on Your Cover Letter--Will It Help Sell Your Story? by James Van Pelt
28. Queries
29. "Reprinting" Queries

    Agents

30. Burned by Agent
31. Fiction Writers: Before you get an Agent
32. Hunting for a Literary Agent by Chuck Rothman
33. Hunting for an Agent (with Sample Synopsis) by John E. Stith
34. Do you need an agent
35. Publishers and Agents
36. Finding an agent
37. Getting an agent to say 'yes'
38. Agent resources on the Web

    E-Publishing

39. How to Be a Starving Writer: Write for Pay-Per-Click Sites!
40. State of the Ebook
    
41. Selling Your Print On Demand (POD) Book To Bookstores
42. Selling Books By Email
    

    Editing & Publishing - General

43. Write Well!
44. Re-writing With Sensory Language
45. 7 Tips to Jump Start Your Manuscript Editing
46. Byline/Exposure/Bio in Lieu of Cash The Ultimate Insult to Writers!
47. 10 Ways to Make Deadbeats Pay Up... Fast!
48. Excuse Me, How Much Did It Cost You? by A.C. Crispin
49. Trim the fat
50. When to revise
51. Publishers and Agents
52. Breaking Into Print by Melisa Michaels
53. Publishing
54. Perseverance, Publishing and the Urge to Write by James Van Pelt
55. Reading a Contract

    Awards, Grants & Contests

56. Nebula Awards^®
57. 10 Tips for Winning Writing Contests

    Manuscript Preparation

58. How to Submit A Manuscript by Roger MacBride Allen (joke article)
59. The Obligatory Manuscript Format Article by John Gregory Betancourt
60. Manuscript Format
61. 12 Basic Steps in Generic Manuscript Preparation
62. Manuscript Preparation by Vonda N. McIntyre
63. Manuscript preparation
64. Manuscript Format by Chuck Rothman
65. Word Count
66. Hardcore Critique Advice by Amy Sterling Casil
67. Sample manuscript pages

    Genre

68. Making Monsters by James Patrick Kelly
69. Writing Jokes for Stand-up Comics By Peter J. Fogel
70. Science in Science Fiction: Making it Work by Joan Slonczewski
71. How to Write a "How To" Book by Susan Bilheimer
72. Building New Worlds by Stephen Baxter
73. Writing SF For Kids by Justin Stanchfield
74. Doyle's SF Genre Rant by Dr. Debra Doyle
75. Doyle's YA SF Rant by Dr. Debra Doyle
76. A Tale of Two Art Forms by Alexandra Elizabeth Honigsberg
77. You Can Take it With You by Robert Metzger

    Non-Fiction & Freelance Writing

78. Make Your Headlines Sizzle
79. 7 Reasons Fiction Writers Should Sell Nonfiction by Carol Ottolenghi-Barga

    Biography, AutoBiography & Memoirs

80. Living to Tell the Tale:
    A guide to writing memoirs
    Biography - sample qs
81. Sample questions to ask yourself when writing about lives - I
82. Sample questions to ask yourself when writing about lives - II

    Workshops

83. Writers' Workshops by James Patrick Kelly (from the
84. Writers' Workshops List conducted via email, street mail, or in person.

    Career Recovery

85. Jump-Starting a Stalled (Or Dead) Career by John Gregory Betancourt
86. A Twelve-Step Program for Writers by Bruce Bethke (joke article)
87. Stalled Careers, Writer's Block, and Monsters Under the Bed by Melisa Michaels

    Submissions

88. Submissions invited: Blujaibooks.com
89. Rejection Letters - Writers share mutual pain online!
90. Multiple submissions
91. Selling your screenplay

    Legal

92. When You've Been Violated: What To Do When Someone Steals Your Ideas or Articles
93. Taxes for freelancers - overview.
94. Copyrights and Meteorites by Chuck Rothman
95. Contracts and Rights, a menu of SFWA model contracts and information on electronic rights

    Scams

96. Poetry scams
97. Stupid publisher tricks
98. Sharks (Writing Scams and Schemes)

    Software & Computers

99. Writing software
100. Another Modest Proposal by Michael Chesley Johnson

     Travel Writing

101. Opportunities for travel writers
102. How to write about travel
103. Internet resources for travel writers