March 10, 2010 12:24 PM PST
Helpful Links
There used to be a long list of links. It wasn't managed, at all. I need to build a system around them. But for now, here's a couple of unmanaged links that I didn't want to lose, myself:
Market Listings
Writing Aids
- Twelve basic plot structures -- Let's Be Friends, Road Movie, Slice of Life, Coming of Age, Escape, Heist, Kill The Monster, Who Dies Next, The Con, Buddy, Do The Right Thing, Poor Boy
- More basic plots -- Quest, Rescue, Contest, Mystery, Change
- The Four Basic Conflicts -- Entity vs. Machine, Entity vs. Nature, Entity vs. Entity, Entity vs. Self
- The Thirty-six (plus one) Dramatic Situations -- taken from Georges Polti, expanded upon
- Random Science Fiction Story Ideas -- sort of. grocery lists of things to pick for characters, job, emotions, items, descriptors, places, events...
- The Center for Life Stories Preservation -- what applies to "real life" applies to fiction
- simple idea generator -- gives you a couple of parameters to write within
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