Writer's Toolbox

This week's 5 most interesting posts. Feel free to add more in the comment section.

Critique

• Using a Critique Checklist, or, How Not to Look Like a Twit – The Bookshelf Muse – Becca Puglisi

Platform building

• 101 Quick Actions You Can Take Today to Build the Writer Platform of Your Dreams – Your Writer Platform – Kimberley Grabbas

Writing and storytelling

• 50 rantypants snidbits of random writing & storytelling advice – Terrible Minds – Chuck Wendig

Literary origins of names

• The Literary Origins of North West – The Millions –  Alizah Salario

Dialogue

• Exclusive Dialogue: When Readers Don’t Know What Your Characters Are Talking About – Word Play – K.M. Weiland

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Writer's toolbox

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Character

• Five steps to building a believable character arc – Plot to Punctuation

Plot

• The 7 essential questions of plot – Do you ask them? –  Jenny Hansen's Blog – Jenny Hansen

Learning from Stephen King

• The Stephen King Guide to Write as a Business – Ray Edwards – Ray Edwards

Foodie Reader

• 10 Literary Restaurants for Hungry Book Nerds Around the World – Flavorwire –  Emily Temple

On success

• Do the Odds of Success Really Matter? – Marcy Kennedy – Marcy Kennedy

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Blogging, Plotting and other things that end in "ing" – Writer's Toolbox

This week's 5 most interesting posts. Feel free to add more in the comment section.

Blogging

• 11 Quick Tips for Writing Compelling Posts On Your Blog – Pro-Blogger – Darren Rowse

Plotting

• How to Manipulate Your Audience Like Downton Abbey – The Write Practice – Joe Bunting

Creating conflict

• 5 Ways to Increase Conflict – Writer's Digest – Chuck Sambuchino

Writing that First Line

• Hooks, Lines and–Sinkers – Writers in the Storm – Shannon Donnelly

Professionnal editing

• The Importance of Professional Editing – Helping Writers Become Authors – K.M. Weiland

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Writer's toolbox

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Make them bleed

• Titrating character's wounds to your plot – Challenge the Odds – Alex Lidell

Writer's block

• How to Transform Words Into Writing Ideas – Writing Forward – Melissa Donovan

Editing tips

• 30 Quick Editing Tips Every Content Creator Needs to Know – Copyblogger –Stefanie Flaxman

Characterization

• How to push your characters to their limits – Writer's Digest – Brian Klems

Learn something

• The enduring power of the King James Bible – CBC Books  

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