Martha Alderson is a “plot consultant” who’s been hired by successful authors and Hollywood directors. While her blog posts clearly exist to sell her services, they do prompt rumination on the subtle threads that hold a good story together.
Are you making the move from writing non-fiction to fiction? Larry Kahaner, a successful journalist and reporter, has a blog focused on this specific challenge.
Now Novel is an online writing program providing step-by-step instructions for finishing a novel. The site’s blog is rich in advice relevant to specific elements of the novel-writing task.
While no posts have appeared in a year, SIMF looks at sciencey topics (e.g., GMOs, holograms, cloning, sex with aliens) and explores how they can be harvested for interesting stories and characters.
Something of a Dear Abby for the writing world, this blog offers concise answers to questions about grammar, series writing, targeting a word count and more. Readers can browse posts chronologically or by topic.
