Outlines and Synopses
Outline Your Novel in 30 minutes - Alicia Rasley
Synopsis Creation and Plot Revision - Alicia Rasley
Synopsis - Stella Cameron
Synopsis Tips - Heart Rate Reviews
That Dratted Synopsis - Anne Gracie
Writing a Selling Synopsis - Mia Crews
Writing the synopsis using cue cards - Karen Harbaugh
How To Write a Synopsis - Rebecca Sinclair
Writing the Tight (Bare Bones) Synopsis - Beth Anderson
The Synopsis Worksheet - Linda Needham
Query Letters
Eclectics site
Writing World article
Show Don't Tell
Show Don’t Tell - Robert J Sawyer
Show Don’t Tell The Story - Tara K Harper
Show Don’t Tell - Terescia Harvey
Sexual Tension and Emotion
Make them breathless, leave them sighing - Jeanie London
Sexual Tension - Gabriella Anderson
Sexual Tension - scroll down to read an excerpt from Leigh Michaels' "Writing the Romance Novel"
Sexual Tension: want to but can't - Cher Gorman
Emotional Punch - Barbara Hannay
The Joy of Sensuality - Barbara Hannay
Crank up the Tension - Bronwyn Jameson
Plot, Theme and Story Development
Explaining Too Much - Caro Clarke
Working with Cause & Effect - Laura Backes
Writing Tips on Plot - Blockbuster Plots
A Solution for Plotting Problems - Deborah Hale
How to Plot when you can't - Sarah Smith
The Top Ten Plotting Problems - Alicia Rasley
The Three act structure - Lecture by Stephen J Cannell (many writers swear by this method!)
Finding Your Themes - Holly Lisle
Theme - Patricia Kay
Motivation, The Writing Life
10 Easy Steps to Publication - Karena Fox
Your rights as a writer - articles from Writing World
There are also heaps of business-related articles at Stephanie Bond's writer's pages
More on Author’s Sites
Karen Harbaugh's 'on writing' pages
Keri Arthur's "stuff for writers" page
Stephanie Bond's writers pages
Tami Cowden’s articles
Vicki Hinze – you can also sign up for her WritersAids Yahoo group
Links to Articles
Publications
Contracts
Example of an Author Contract - Write Content
The Publishing Law Center (legal info for the publishing community)
Contract Savvy - Darcy Pattison
Articles on contracts - Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Tara K Harper's articles on negotiating contracts
Writing Communities and Blogs
Tote Bags 'n Blogs
Writers Playground
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