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This is an ultimate masterlist of many resources that could be helpful for writers. I apologize in advance for any not working links. Check out the ultimate writing resource masterlist here (x) and my “novel” tag here (x).

✑ PLANNING

Outlining & Organizing

• For the Architects: The Planning Process
• Rough Drafts
• How do you plan a novel?
• Plot Development: Climax, Resolution, and Your Main Character
• Plotting and Planing
• I Have An Idea for a Novel! Now What?
• Choosing the Best Outline Method
• How to Write a Novel: The Snowflake Method
• Effectively Outlining Your Plot
• Conflict and Character within Story Structure
• Outlining Your Plot
• Ideas, Plots & Using the Premise Sheets

✑ INSPIRATION

• Finding story ideas
• Choosing ideas and endings
• When a plot isn’t strong enough to make a whole story
• Writing a story that’s doomed to suck
• How to Finish What You Start: A Five-Step Plan for Writers
• Finishing Your Novel
• Finish Your Novel
• How to Finish Your Novel when You Want to Quit
• How To Push Past The Bullshit And Write That Goddamn Novel: A Very Simple No-Fuckery Writing Plan

✑ PLOT

In General

• 25 Turns, Pivots and Twists to Complicate Your Story
• The ABCs (and Ds and Es) of Plot Development
• Originality Is Overrated
• How to Create a Plot Outline in Eight Easy Steps
• Finding Plot: Idea Nets
• The Story Goal: Your Key to Creating a Solid Plot Structure
• Make your reader root for your main character
• Creating Conflict and Sustaining Suspense
• Tips for Creating a Compelling Plot
• The Thirty-six (plus one) Dramatic Situations
• Adding Subplots to a Novel
• Weaving Subplots into a Novel
• 7 Ways to Add Subplots to Your Novel
• Crafting a Successful Romance Subplot
• How to Improve your Writing: Subplots and Subtext
• Understanding the Role of Subplots
• How to Use Subtext in your Writing
• The Secret Life of Subtext
• How to Use Subtext

Beginning

• Creating a Process: Getting Your Ideas onto Paper (And into a Story)
• Why First Chapters?
• Starting with a Bang
• In the Beginning
• The Beginning of your Novel that isn’t the Beginning of your Novel
• A Beginning from the Middle
• Starting with a Bang
• First Chapters: What To Include @ The Beginning Writer
• 23 Clichés to Avoid When Beginning Your Story
• Start Writing Now
• Done Planning. What Now?
• Continuing Your Long-Format Story
• How to Start a Novel 
• 100 best first lines from novels
• The First Sentence of a Book Report
• How To Write A Killer First Sentence To Open Your Book
• How to Write the First Sentence of a Book
• The Most Important Sentence: How to Write a Killer Opening
• Hook Your Reader from the First Sentence: How to Write Great Beginnings

Foreshadowing

• Foreshadowing and the Red Hering
• Narrative Elements: Foreshadowing
• Foreshadowing and Suspense
• Foreshadowing Key Details
• Writing Fiction: Foreshadowing
• The Literary Device of Foreshadowing
• All About Foreshadowing in Fiction
• Foreshadowing
• Flashbacks and Foreshadowing
• Foreshadowing — How and Why to Use It In Your Writing

Setting

• Four Ways to Bring Settings to Life
• Write a Setting for a Book
• Writing Dynamic Settings
• How To Make Your Setting a Character
• Guide for Setting
• 5 Tips for Writing Better Settings
• Building a Novel’s Setting

Ending

• A Novel Ending
• How to End Your Novel
• How to End Your Novel 2
• How to End a Novel With a Punch
• How to End a Novel
• How to Finish a Novel
• How to Write The Ending of Your Novel
• Keys to Great Endings
• 3 Things That End A Story Well
• Ending a Novel: Five Things to Avoid
• Endings that Ruin Your Novel
• Closing Time: The Ending

✑ CHARACTER

Names

• Behind the Name
• Surname Meanings and Origins
• Surname Meanings and Origins – A Free Dictionary of Surnames
• Common US Surnames & Their Meanings
• Last Name Meanings & Origins
• Name Generators
• Name Playground

Different Types of Characters

• Ways To Describe a Personality
• Character Traits Meme
• Types of Characters
• Types of Characters in Fiction
• Seven Common Character Types
• Six Types of Courageous Characters
• Creating Fictional Characters (Masterlist)
• Building Fictional Characters
• Fiction Writer’s Character Chart
• Character Building Workshop
• Tips for Characterization
• Fiction Writer’s Character Chart
• Advantages, Disadvantages and Skills 

Males

• Strong Male Characters
• The History and Nature of Man Friendships
• Friendship for Guys (No Tears!)
• ‘I Love You, Man’ and the rules of male friendship
• Male Friendship
• Understanding Male Friendship
• Straight male friendship, now with more cuddling

Character Development

• P.O.V. And Background
• Writing a Character: Questionnaire
• 10 Days of Character Building
• Getting to Know Your Characters
• Character Development Exercises

✑ STYLE

Chapters

• How Many Chapters is the Right Amount of Chapters?
• The Arbitrary Nature of the Chapter
• How Long is a Chapter?
• How Long Should Novel Chapters Be?
• Chapter & Novel Lengths 
• Section vs. Scene Breaks

Dialogue 

• The Passion of Dialogue
• 25 Things You Should Know About Dialogue
• Dialogue Writing Tips
• Punctuation Dialogue
• How to Write Believable Dialogue
• Writing Dialogue: The Music of Speech
• Writing Scenes with Many Characters
• It’s Not What They Say …
• Top 10 Tips for Writing Dialogue
• Speaking of Dialogue
• Dialogue Tips
• Interrupted Dialogue
• Two Tips for Interrupted Dialogue

Show, Don’t Tell (Description)

• “Tell” Makes a Great Placeholder
• The Literary Merit of the Grilled Cheese Sandwich
• Bad Creative Writing Advice
• The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do
• DailyWritingTips: Show, Don’t Tell
• GrammarGirl: Show, Don’t Tell
• Writing Style: What Is It?
• Detail Enhances Your Fiction
• Using Sensory Details
• Description in Fiction
• Using Concrete Detail
• Depth Through Perception
• Showing Emotions & Feelings

Character Description

• Describing Your Characters (by inkfish7 on DeviantArt)
• Help with Character Development
• Creating Characters that Jump Off the Page
• Omitting Character Description
• Introducing Your Character(s): DON’T
• Character Crafting
• Writer’s Relief Blog: “Character Development In Stories And Novels”
• Article: How Do You Think Up Your Characters?
• 5 Character Points You May Be Ignoring
• List of colors, hair types and hairstyles
• List of words to use in a character’s description 
• 200 words to describe hair
• How to describe hair
• Words used to describe the state of people’s hair
• How to describe your haircut
• Hair color sharts
• Four Ways to Reveal Backstory
• Words Used to Describe Clothes

Flashbacks

• Using Flashbacks in Writing
• Flashbacks by All Write
• Using Flashback in Fiction
• Fatal Backstory
• Flashbacks as opening gambit
• Don’t Begin at the Beginning
• Flashbacks in Books
• TVTropes: Flashback
• Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear: Flashback Techniques in Fiction
• 3 Tips for Writing Successful Flashbacks
• The 5 Rules of Writing Effective Flashbacks
• How to Handle Flashbacks In Writing
• Flashbacks and Foreshadowing
• Reddit Forum: Is a flashback in the first chapter a good idea?
• Forum Discussing Flackbacks

P.O.V

• You, Me, and XE – Points of View
• What’s Your Point of View?
• Establishing the Right Point of View: How to Avoid “Stepping Out of Character”
• How to Start Writing in the Third Person
• The Opposite Gender P.O.V.

LANGUAGE

•  How To Say Said
• 200 Words Instead of Said
• Words to Use Instead of Said
• A List of Words to Use Instead of Said
• Alternatives to “Walk”
• 60 Synonyms for “Walk”

✑ USEFUL WEBSITES/LINKS

• Grammar Monster
• Google Scholar
• GodChecker
• Tip Of My Tounge
• Speech Tags
• Pixar Story Rules
• Written? Kitten!
• TED Talks
• DarkCopy
• Family Echo
• Some Words About Word Count
• How Long Should My Novel Be?
• The Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test
• Writer’s “Cheat Sheets”

Last but not least, the most helpful tool for any writer out there is Google!

So so helpful