====== Writing Advice Threads - General ======

Nonnies regularly ask each other for tips on how to improve their writing. Here are just a relative handful of the many, many threads we have had on the issue. (Other pages in the "Writing Resources" section cover meme discussions of specific writing issues like [[worldbuilding]] or [[Characters|characterization]].)

  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/17923.html?thread=78476547#t78476547|Favourite Piece of Writing Advice?]] (Aug. 6, 2011)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/21709.html?thread=96665037|Writing Tips]] — //"Does anyone have any links to any good tips or tutorials or essays about writing prose? I know how to structure a plot, make characters interesting, all that jazz - but my prose itself is very clunky."// (Nov. 1, 2011)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/25729.html?thread=112878209#t112878209|When is it okay to tell, not show?]] (Dec. 30, 2011)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/26362.html?thread=114594042#t114594042|Creating a believable setting]] (Jan. 5, 2012)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/26362.html?thread=115133178#t115133178|Writing Resource Request]] (Jan. 7, 2012)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/26362.html?thread=115299578#t115299578|Rescued from the scrappy heap: terrible ideas made plausible by good writing]] (Jan. 7, 2012)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/27044.html?thread=119036068#t119036068|Writing again after a seven month writer's block]] (Jan. 18, 2012)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/27151.html?thread=120357903#t120357903|general fic writing/advice thread?]] (Jan. 22, 2012)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/27151.html?thread=120803855#t120803855|Fic help]] (Jan. 24, 2012)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/27501.html?thread=122546797#t122546797|When the pride kicks in and you're not even sure why you're doing this anymore]] (Jan. 29, 2012)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/29340.html?thread=131000476#t131000476|Outlining/planning fic]] (Feb. 28, 2012)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/29566.html?thread=132093566#t132093566|Writing Advice Thread]] (Mar. 4, 2012)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/29900.html?thread=133234636#t133234636|Kickstarting writing / inspiration]] (Mar. 8, 2012)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/30100.html?thread=134768532#t134768532|How to tell when your writing sucks]] (Mar. 14, 2012)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/30100.html?thread=134928276#t134928276|writing one-eyed characters and other things that turned out to be tricky]] (Mar. 15, 2012)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/52821.html?thread=246054741#t246054741|Writing advice]] (Mar. 25, 2013)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/53070.html?thread=246960974#t246960974|Writing advice]] (Mar. 28, 2013)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/54007.html?thread=251120887#t251120887|Tons of detail vs. very little detail]] (Apr. 8, 2013)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/54007.html?thread=251184119#t251184119|Writing Advice]] (Apr. 9, 2013)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/55576.html?thread=259077144#t259077144|Highly Subjective Opinions about Writing Style]] (May 1, 2013)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/56282.html?thread=261289178#t261289178|Writing Questions]] (May 7, 2013)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/58890.html?thread=275695626#t275695626|Writing Advice]] (Jun. 12, 2013)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/59827.html?thread=280463539#t280463539|Conventional Writing Tips You Completely Ignore]] (Jun. 25, 2013)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/60762.html?thread=285792858#t285792858|How do I write [x kind of narrative]?]] (Jul. 8, 2013)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/60762.html?thread=285864794#t285864794|How do you title your chapters, anons?]] (Jul. 8, 2013)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/61040.html?thread=287061872#t287061872|What do you do when you're working on something, and just realise you hate it?]] (Jul. 10, 2013)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/62938.html?thread=294947290#t294947290|How to write [x]]] (Jul. 30, 2013)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/113304.html?thread=574912408#cmt574912408|"How many 'says' in a row are too many?"]] (Nov. 26, 2014)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/122934.html?thread=632223542#cmt632223542|Response to "How do I novel”]] (Feb. 4, 2015)
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/126324.html?thread=652645236#cmt652645236|The problem with Winterfox’s prose]] (Feb. 28, 2015)
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