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 characterization.)

• Favourite Piece of Writing Advice? (Aug. 6, 2011)
• 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)
• When is it okay to tell, not show? (Dec. 30, 2011)
• Creating a believable setting (Jan. 5, 2012)
• Writing Resource Request (Jan. 7, 2012)
• Rescued from the scrappy heap: terrible ideas made plausible by good writing (Jan. 7, 2012)
• Writing again after a seven month writer's block (Jan. 18, 2012)
• general fic writing/advice thread? (Jan. 22, 2012)
• Fic help (Jan. 24, 2012)
• When the pride kicks in and you're not even sure why you're doing this anymore (Jan. 29, 2012)
• Outlining/planning fic (Feb. 28, 2012)
• Writing Advice Thread (Mar. 4, 2012)
• Kickstarting writing / inspiration (Mar. 8, 2012)
• How to tell when your writing sucks (Mar. 14, 2012)
• writing one-eyed characters and other things that turned out to be tricky (Mar. 15, 2012)
• Writing advice (Mar. 25, 2013)
• Writing advice (Mar. 28, 2013)
• Tons of detail vs. very little detail (Apr. 8, 2013)
• Writing Advice (Apr. 9, 2013)
• Highly Subjective Opinions about Writing Style (May 1, 2013)
• Writing Questions (May 7, 2013)
• Writing Advice (Jun. 12, 2013)
• Conventional Writing Tips You Completely Ignore (Jun. 25, 2013)
• How do I write [x kind of narrative]? (Jul. 8, 2013)
• How do you title your chapters, anons? (Jul. 8, 2013)
• What do you do when you're working on something, and just realise you hate it? (Jul. 10, 2013)
• How to write [x] (Jul. 30, 2013)
• "How many 'says' in a row are too many?" (Nov. 26, 2014)
• Response to "How do I novel” (Feb. 4, 2015)
• The problem with Winterfox’s prose (Feb. 28, 2015)