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Characterization * Chat Room Help * Christian and Inspirational Fiction *Craft and Technique * Creative Nonfiction *Critique Groups *Dialogue * Editing and Revising * Family and Personal Issues * Genres * Getting Ideas * Long Ridge Assignments * Health * Long Ridge Submission Guidelines * Marketing Fiction * Marketing Nonfiction * Mystery * Nonfiction* Novel Form * Plotting * Post A Note * PR* Publishing*Publishing Fiction * Publishing Nonfiction * Query Letters * Research * Romance * SCAMS! * Setting * SF and Fantasy * Using Your Computer * Writers Block * Writing Time

 

Characterization

Creating Great Mystery Characters by Connie Shelton: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/c_shelton2.shtml

Color Me Happy: Adding Emotional Nuance: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/color_me_happy.shtml

First or Third Person POV – Why Choose? http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/first_or_third.shtml

Revealing the Character: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/revealing_pov.shtml

A Character Worksheet: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/knowing_your_character.shtml

Building the Strong Character: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/creating_the_strong_character.shtml

Tinting Exposition with Character http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/tinting_exposition_with_character.shtml

Hidden Motivators: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/getting_to_know_you.shtml

Seeing the Character: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/seeing_your_character.shtml

The Negative Character: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/writing_the_negative_character.shtml

Love at First Sight: Character Bond: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/love_at_first_sight.shtml

Avoid the Plot Puppet: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/puppet.shtml

 

 

Chat Room Help

How to Chat:  http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st01/lrhowchat.shtml

 

 

Christian and Inspirational

Is it Christian or Is it Inspirational by Pamela Thibodeaux http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/christian_or_inspirational_fiction.shtml

 

Craft and Technique:

Writing the Action Scene: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/writing_the_action_scene.shtml

First Person POV: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/first_person_pov.shtml

Third Person POV: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/third_person_point_of_view.shtml

Flashback! http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/flash_back.shtml

Writing the Action Scene: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/writing_the_action_scene.shtml

The Strong Scene: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/the_scene.shtml

Run Don’t Walk: Creating Tension: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/tension.shtml

Fast or Slow: Pacing 101 http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/fast_or_sloww.shtml

From Here to There: Transitions: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/getting_from_here_to_there_transitions.shtml

Embedding Backstory: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/embedding_the_backstory.shtml

What Show Don’t Tell Really Means: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/article.shtml

First or Third Person POV – Why Choose? http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/first_or_third.shtml

Limited Third Person POV http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/limited_third_person__point_of_view.shtml

First Person Show Don’t Tell: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/first_person.shtml

Layering: One Sentence Does Many Things; http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/revision.shtml

Say I Say by Ken Rand: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/say_i_say_ken_rand.shtml

Don't Fall Head Over Heels on the First Draft by Ruth Schiffmann http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/schiffmann.shtml

 

 

Creative Nonfiction

Tell a Real Story: Creative Nonfiction http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc02/creative_nonfiction.shtml

Write to Inspire by Chynna Laird: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/writetoinspire___chynna.shtml

 

 

Critique Groups

Story Crafters: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/storycrafters.shtml

Giving (and Taking) Good Critiques: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/critiques.shtml

The NaNo Experience By Pam Lindenau http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/nano_experience.shtml

Starting a Critique Group: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st01/starting_a_critique_group.shtml

 

 

Dialogue

Action Tags: Show Don't Tell in Dialogue: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc11/action_tags.shtml

Realistic Dialogue: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/dialogue.shtml

Revealing Character through Dialogue: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/who_am_i11.shtml

First Person Show Don’t Tell: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/first_person.shtml

 

 

 

Editing and Revising

Writing Better http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/writing_better.shtml

Health and Wellbeing

Dark and Stormy Night – Not! Non Narrative Description http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/nonnarrative_description.shtml

Editing 101: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/editing_101.shtml

Active versus Passive Voice: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/active_and_passive_voice.shtml

Writing Books: Are They Good? http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/howtowrite_books.shtml

 

Family and Personal Issues

When Writing Affects the Family by Pam Lindenau http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st04/pam.shtml

 

 

 

Genres

Magic Realism: Then and Now http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/magic_realism.shtml

 

 

Getting Ideas

Finding Ideas: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/finding_ideas.shtml

Where Do Stories Come From? by  Nancy Varian Berberick http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/berberick.shtml

Fine Find by G S Kearney http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/findfind.shtml

The Family Newsletter by GS Kearney: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/family_newsletters.shtml

 

 

Health:

The Injured Writer; by Rhett DeVane http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st08/rhett_devane_injured_writer.shtml

 

 

Long Ridge Assignments:

Writing the Story Summary http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/using_the_senses_in_description.shtml

Plotting the 1000 Word Short Story: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/plotting_the_short_short.shtml

 

 

Long Ridge Submission Guidelines

http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/long_ridge_website_submission_guidelines.shtml

 

Marketing Fiction

From Screen to Page: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/from_screen_to_page.shtml

Rights, Rights, Rights: What You Own http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/rights_rights_rights.shtml

 

Marketing Nonfiction

Breaking into Nonfiction markets http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc02/breaking_into_nonfiction.shtml

Comfort Zone by Becky Crawley http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/crawley.shtml

Seven Steps to Global Writing by Tatiana Claudy http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/claudy.shtml

Tailor Your Article to Sell by Tatiana Claudy http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc02/claudy.shtml

Rights, Rights, Rights: What You Own http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/rights_rights_rights.shtml

Print on Demand and Subsidy Publishing: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/print_on_demand_and_subsidy_publishing.shtml

 

Mystery

Mystery Basics: Subgenres: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/mystery_subgenres.shtml

Planting Mystery Clues: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/planting_clues_in_mystery.shtml

How to Plot a Mystery http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/how_to_write_a_mystery.shtml

Creating Great Mystery Characters by Connie Shelton: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/c_shelton2.shtml

The Whodunnit by Connie Shelton http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/c_shelton.shtml

 

Nonfiction

Making the Sale, by Chynna Laird http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc02/ct_laird.shtml

Tell a Real Story: Creative Nonfiction: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc02/creative_nonfiction.shtml

Setting the Hook: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc02/setting_the_hook.shtml

The Nonfiction Query Letter http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc02/writing_the_strong_query_letter.shtml

Finding Your Slant: Slant in Nonfiction: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc02/finding_slant.shtml

The Art of the Interview: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/art_of_the_interview.shtml

 

 

Novel Form

Novel Synopsis Example: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/the_novel_synopsis.shtml

The Dreaded (NOT!) Synopsis http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/synopsis.shtml

Blurbing for Structure: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/blurbing_for_structure.shtml

The Subplot: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/the_subplot.shtml

The Chapter Summary: Avoid the First Draft; http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/novel.shtml

Storyboard Template for Chapters by Chris Dale: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/story_boards.shtml

Finding Your Tracks; Organizing Your Fictional Material: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/finding_your_tracks.shtml

A Novel Blurb Template by Jean Lauzier: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st07/speckledorf.shtml

 

 

 

Plotting

Character and Plot; The Cart or the Horse? by Donna Ippolito http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/

Focus the Lens: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/writing_short.shtml

How to Plot a Mystery http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/how_to_write_a_mystery.shtml

From Idea to Story: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/from_idea_to_story.shtml

Ending It: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/ending_it.shtml

Foreshadowing: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/foreshadowing.shtml

Blurbing for Structure: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/blurbing_for_structure.shtml

Inside and Out: Internal and External Plot: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/plotting_inside_and_out.shtml

First or Third Person POV – Why Choose? http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/first_or_third.shtml

 

Post A Note

Post A Note; What’s In It For You? by Roseanne Dowell http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st01/post_it_testamonial.shtml

 

 

 

PR

You Need a Website http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc07/why_you_need_a_website.shtml

 

 

Publishing Fiction

Submitting 101: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/submitting_101.shtml

Rights, Rights, Rights: What You Own http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/rights_rights_rights.shtml

Starting the Fiction Career: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/beyond_the_first_sale.shtml

To Agent or Not to Agent: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/to_agent_or_not_to_agent.shtml

Contract Watch http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/asja_contracts_watch_is_a_free_service_from_the_contracts_committee_of_the_american_society_of_journalists_and_authors.shtml

Getting Your Book into Stores by Debbie Cross http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/getting_your_book_into_stores.shtml

Agent Basics: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/agent_basics.shtml

Doctor! Doctor! When is an Agent Not an Agent? http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/doctor.shtml

Print on Demand and Subsidy Publishing: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/print_on_demand_and_subsidy_publishing.shtml

 

Publishing Nonfiction

Submitting 101: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/submitting_101.shtml

Rights, Rights, Rights: What You Own http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/rights_rights_rights.shtml

To Agent or Not to Agent: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/to_agent_or_not_to_agent.shtml

Contract Watch http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/asja_contracts_watch_is_a_free_service_from_the_contracts_committee_of_the_american_society_of_journalists_and_authors.shtml

 

Query Letters

The Selling Query Letter http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc02/getting_to_the_point.shtml

Proposal versus Query versus Cover Letters: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/the_proposalquerycoverletter.shtml

Writing the Strong Nonfiction Magazine Query Letter (a color-coded example) http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc02/writing_the_strong_query_letter.shtml

 

Research

The Wild Wild Wiki by G. S. Kearney http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/wikiways.shtml

Finding Input by Tatiana Claudy http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc02/finding_i.shtml

Finding Your Tracks; Organizing Your Fictional Material: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/finding_your_tracks.shtml

 

Romance

Analyzing Romance by Janet Wellington http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/wellington_article_analyzing_romance.shtml

Not Just a Sappy Love Story by Jean Lauzier: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/lauzier.shtml

Is it Love or Sex? Irene Radford: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/love_or_sex_2.shtml

 

 

SCAMS!

Doctor! Doctor! When is an Agent Not an Agent? http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/doctor.shtml

Print on Demand and Subsidy Publishing: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/print_on_demand_and_subsidy_publishing.shtml

 

 

Setting

Using the Senses in Description: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/using_the_senses_in_description.shtml

Creating Real-World Settings: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/real_world_setting.shtml

Creating the Universe on the Run: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/creating_the_world.shtml

 

SF and Fantasy

Writing Speculative Fiction http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/writing_speculative_fiction.shtml

Creating the Universe on the Run: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/creating_the_world.shtml

 

 

Using Your Computer

Fine Find by G S Kearney http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/findfind.shtml

Voice Recorders: Review by G.S. Kearney http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st01/kearney.shtml

Back Up Solutions: G. S. Kearney http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st01/bakupdoc.shtml

Enable Active X How To: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st01/lractivex.shtml

PC Basics by G.S. Kearney http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st01/pcbasics.shtml

Writer’s Software – Helpful or Not?: by Petra van der Zande  http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/writing_software_van_der_zande.shtml

 

 

Writers Block

A Two Sided Coin.  By Nancy Kopp http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/nancy_kopp_a_two_sided_coin.shtml

You Can't Win if You Don't Play By Susanne Shaphren http://www.thelongridgewritersgroup.com/T6020/rx/st03/shaphren.shtml

Is It Too Late? By Nancy Julien Kopp http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/kopp.shtml

So You’re an Old Wannabe by Kathe Campbell http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/k_campbell_wannabe.shtml

How to Avoid Being Trapped by Nancy Kopp http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/kopp.shtml

Explode or Escape by E.A.Wright http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/wright.shtml

Soliciting 100 Rejection Slips: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/soliciting_rejection_slips.shtml

Beware the Shoulder Vultures; http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/beware_the_shoulder_vultures.shtml

Finding Time: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/finding_time.shtml

Rejection Slips: Dues We All Pay http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/rejection_slips.shtml

 

 

Writing Time:

I Write Because I Can by Humeira Kazmi http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st02/kazmi.shtml

Writing Time: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st02/writing_in_time.shtml

Writing the Everyday Blues: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st02/writing_the_every_day_blues.shtml