{"id":1411,"date":"2020-06-21T16:54:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T16:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.korolov.com\/specficwriters\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2020-06-21T16:54:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T16:54:55","slug":"writing-advice-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.korolov.com\/specficwriters\/2020\/06\/21\/writing-advice-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing advice sites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hiveword.com\/wkb\/search\"><strong>Writer\u2019s Knowledge Base<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Huge database of more than 40,000 articles about writing. Always my favorite place to start to research any writing problem (other than Google, of course). These are the best articles, from the top writing blogs. I also subscribe to Elizabeth Spann Craig\u2019s weekly list of the best new writing-related articles, called <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethspanncraig.com\/category\/twitterific\/\">Twitterific Writing Links<\/a>, which then all get added to this database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savethecat.com\/\"><strong>Save the Cat!<\/strong><\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Lots of good examples of how the STC framework works for a variety of popular movies and books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.korolov.com\/specficwriters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mythcreants-1024x557.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.korolov.com\/specficwriters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mythcreants-1024x557.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.korolov.com\/specficwriters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mythcreants-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.korolov.com\/specficwriters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mythcreants-768x418.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.korolov.com\/specficwriters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mythcreants-465x253.jpg 465w, https:\/\/www.korolov.com\/specficwriters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mythcreants-695x378.jpg 695w, https:\/\/www.korolov.com\/specficwriters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mythcreants.jpg 1194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mythcreants.com\/\"><strong>Mythcreants<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>My all-time favorite writing advice site, since it\u2019s about speculative fiction, and also because the editors here seem to care about a lot of the same issues that I do. Latest favorite post: <a href=\"https:\/\/mythcreants.com\/blog\/five-common-reasons-tension-is-missing\/\">Five common reasons tension is missing<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.janicehardy.com\/\"><strong>Fiction University<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Lots of great advice articles here, including <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.janicehardy.com\/2010\/08\/find-your-plot-fridays-what-to-do-what.html?m=1\">5 questions to ask for stronger scenes<\/a> \u2014 1. Can the protagonist be in any danger? 2. Can the protagonist learn or reveal a secret? 3. Can the protagonist be in conflict with someone, something, or themselves? 4. Can the protagonist make a choice? 5. Can the protagonist fail at something?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.reedsy.com\/\"><strong>Reedsy<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Clear accessible writing advice on all the basic topics, like <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.reedsy.com\/how-to-write-a-series\/\">How to write a series<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.reedsy.com\/character-quirks\/\">150+ Useful Character Quirks<\/a>. They\u2019ve also got a cute <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.reedsy.com\/plot-generator\/\">plot generator<\/a> and a really good <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.reedsy.com\/character-name-generator\/\">character name generator<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer\u2019s Knowledge Base Huge database of more than 40,000 articles about writing. Always my favorite place to start to research any writing problem (other than Google, of course). These are the best articles, from the top writing blogs. I also subscribe to Elizabeth Spann Craig\u2019s weekly list of the best<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.korolov.com\/specficwriters\/2020\/06\/21\/writing-advice-sites\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-korolov_qxv7fs","post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.korolov.com\/specficwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.korolov.com\/specficwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.korolov.com\/specficwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.korolov.com\/specficwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.korolov.com\/specficwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.korolov.com\/specficwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/www.korolov.com\/specficwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.korolov.com\/specficwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.korolov.com\/specficwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.korolov.com\/specficwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.korolov.com\/specficwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}