As the title says, let us collect some useful tips and tutorials.
Here are two great (!) excerpts from a writing course that you can take at Lynda.
What is a story?
Working with an example
This short interview is about screenplays. But that shouldn't bother you because what the interviewee has to say is also true for other types of stories.
Why most screenplays are bad
The Hero's Journey explained:
What makes a hero?
The hero's journey is a universal story structure that can help you to shape your story. Click here for further information.
Click here for more information about the snowflake method.
This is a method developed by Randy Ingermanson. It was originally designed for writing novels but I think that it can be helpful for all kinds of literature. The idea is that you begin with a simple theme and then add more and more things to it.
Fatally Procrastinating from Tumblr shares with us about her (or his?) favourite writing tutorial books
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Seven tips from Ernest Hemingway on how to write fiction.