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Posted by John Hewitt on March 5, 2007 under Writing | 
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Fiction
- Plotting by Elimination
- How Good is Your Bad Guy?
- Building Better Novels Through Conflict
- Are Your Characters Well Spoken, or is it Just You?
- Deciding on a Narrative Voice
- Mapping out your Novel’s Characters
- Writing an Action Outline
- What are Your Novel’s Goals?
- How to Write a 50,000 Word Novel in a Month
- There is no Right Way to Write a Novel
- Revising Your Novel: Starting Over
- Revising Your Novel: Finding someone to read your draft
- Revising Your Novel: Editing with an eye toward continuity
- Revising Your Novel: Adding and revising scenes
- Revising Your Novel: Creating a New Roadmap
- Revising Your Novel: Creating an Information Guide (Part Two)
- Revising Your Novel: Creating an Information Guide (Part One)
- Revising Your Novel: Edit as You Read
- Six Quick Tips For Starting Your Story
- Six Quick Tips on Character Names
- 10 Days of Character Building: Wrap Up
- 10 Days of Character Building: Character Bio Sheets
- 10 Days of Character Building: Basing Characters on Real People
- 10 Days of Character Building: 12 Questions
- 10 Days of Character Building: Building a Character Using Multiple Perspectives
- 10 Days of Character Building: Brainstorming
- 10 Days of Character Building: Interview
- 10 Days of Character Building: Biography
- 10 Days of Character Building: Possessions
- 10 Days of Character Building: A Day in the Life
- 10 Days of Character Building: Defining Characters By Their Roles
- Revising Your Novel: Performing a Light Edit
- Revising Your Novel: Read What You’ve Written
- Revising Your Novel: Creating a Chronology
- Measuring Up
- The Home Stretch
- Turning a First Draft into a Novel
- 10 Increasingly Pointless NaNoWriMo Helpers
- Six Ways to Jump Start a Stalled Novel
- Six Tips for Writing Descriptions
- Learning to Express Yourself
- On The Web: Writing about fiction writing
- Writing Exercise: Your Personality as a Child
- Creating Memorable Characters
- Building Characters Through Adversity
- 12 Exercises for Improving Dialogue
- Fifteen Craft Exercises for Writers
- Writing Exercise: Your tastes in food and drink
- Writing Exercise: What is power?
- Creating a Believable World
- Dialog as a Tool for Communication and Division
Productivity
- Negative Self Talk For Writers
- How to Fake Enthusiasm for Corporate Platitudes
- Better Writing Through Stress
- Surviving as a Writer in a Bad Economy
- Will The Recession Hurt Your Writing Career?
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Obsessing
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Shoulding
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Right stepping
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Fairesy
- A Career in Technical Writing: Beach Time
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Polarized thinking
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Judging human worth
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Personalizing
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Musterbation
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Perfectionism
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Blaming
- The Power of the Madness… Get to know me!
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Minimizing
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Overgeneralizing
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Catastrophizing
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Awfulizing
- Negative Self Talk for Writers: Negativising
- 5 Ways to Become a Productive Writer
- 4-Hour Work Week: Lessons for Writers
- Step Three for a Great New Year of Writing: Track Your Progress
- Step Two for a Great New Year of Writing: Set a Writing Schedule
- Step One for a Great New Year of Writing: Dedicate Yourself to One Project
- Where to Sit During Inspiration
- Finding Time to Write
- Overcoming Writer’s Isolation
Random Thoughts
- 2008 Voter’s Guide to Joes
- Blog Action Day: Poverty and the Seriously Mentally Ill
- In Defense of No Comment
- One Blogger, Many Roles
- I Miss Siskel and Ebert
- Why I Stopped Going to the Movies
- I’m Not Perfect and I Don’t Care Who Knows It!
- Guest Blogger Prize Winners
- I’m back… and other thoughts
- My Thoughts on The Oscars and Juno
- Little House on Reunion Road
- Looking Back at 2007: Underachievers
- Looking Back at 2007: The Posts with the Most
- ZenHabits.net is now Public Domain, how about Poewar?
- 27 Things This Writer Loved About 2007
- Arizona Daily Star Goes From Sad to Pathetic
- Short Stuff: Business 2.0, OneNote, New Projects and Mom
- Off Topic: My Spiritual Beliefs
- Self Interview — The Environment
- The Screenwriter’s Strike Shows No Signs of Ending
- A Bad Week for My Local News
- Weekend Update
- Memoriam: Adam Finley
- Poewar.com Readership Statistics
- Audience Analysis of PoeWar.com
30 Poems in 30 Days 2008
- The Entire 30 Poems in 30 Days Series — 2008
- PD30 Wrap Up And Other Thoughts
- PD30 Day 30: My Final Say
- PD30 Day 29: Creating Your Own Chapbook
- PD30 Day 28: The Basics of Poetry Submissions
- PD30 Day 27: Poetry and Prizes
- PD30 Day 26: Events and Emotion
- PD30 Day 25: Poets are Liars
- PD30 Day 24: Improving Your Imagery
- PD30 Day 23: Ways to find Inspiration
- PD30 Day 22: Travelogues
- PD 30 Day 21: Moving Beyond Imitation
- PD30 Day 20: Rhyme, Sound and Repetition
- PD30 Day 19: A Glossary of Rhyme
- PD30 Day 18: Fun with Hyponymy
- PD30 Day 17: Capturing the Quiet
- PD30 Day 16: Editing Your Poetry
- PD30 Day 15: Found Poetry
- PD30 Day 14: Poetry Under Pressure
- PD30 Day 13: Writing a Tanka
- PD30 Day 12: The Poetry Journal, From Notebooks to Blackberries
- PD30 Day 11: Poets as Storytellers
- PD30 Day 10: The Mighty Mighty Pantoum
- PD30 Day 9: How to Write in Meter If You Have Two Left Feet
- PD30 Day 8: The Occasional Poem
- PD30 Day 7: Embrace The Person You Are
- PD30 Day 6: Poets and Parables
- PD30 Day 5: Poetry and Pain
- PD30 Day 4: Poetry — the Writer’s Bridge to Music
- PD30 Day 3: A Review of Meter
- PD30 Day 2: Generally Be Specific
- PD30 Day 1: I Believe in Poetry
- All About 30 Poems in 30 Days
30 Poems in 30 Days 2007
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Why you should write poetry
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Writing About Yourself
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Writing About Issues
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Poetry of Place
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Persona Poems
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Developing Your Voice
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: About Forms and Lists
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Elegies and Memories
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: A Brief Glossary of Meter
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: The Good the Bad and the Meter
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Courting Controversy
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Syllabic Verse
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: What is Your Writing Process?
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Repetition
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Imagism
- 30 poems in 30 Days: Review Your Old Work
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: The Constraint as a Tool
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Joining the Community
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: About the Line
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Staying Positive
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Progression
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Breaking the Rules
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Confessional Poetry
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Say What You Want to Say
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Poetry Contests
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Free Verse
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Finding New Ways To Stay Inspired
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Word Choice
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: A Little Advice
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Collaboration
Technical Writing
- How Technical Writers Gather Information: Going to training sessions / meeting the trainers
- How Technical Writers Gather Information: Using the product
- How Technical Writers Gather Information: Interviewing the SMEs
- A Career in Technical Writing: Amanda
- A Career in Technical Writing: Bright Lights, Big City
- A Career in Technical Writing: By the time I get to Phoenix
- How Technical Writers Gather Information: Attending / Holding Meetings
- A Career in Technical Writing: Planes, Trainers and Automobiles
- A Career in Technical Writing: End of Part One
- A Career in Technical Writing: End games
- A Career in Technical Writing: Reversals
- A Career in Technical Writing: Last Contractor Standing
- A Career in Technical Writing: Workaround
- A Career in Technical Writing: Life as a newbie
- A Career in Technical Writing: A strange new world
- A Career in Technical Writing: The fax about outsourcing
- A Career in Technical Writing: Two dates to the prom
- A Career in Technical Writing: Life as a wannabee
- A Career in Technical Writing: The beginning of a new series
- Technical Writing Part Six: How to Find Technical Writing Jobs
- Technical Writing Part Five: Education
- Technical Writing Part Four: Desktop Publishing Tools
- Technical Writing Part Three: A Technical Writer’s Skill Set
- Technical Writing Part Two: What a Technical Writer Writes
- Technical Writing Part One: Process Overview
- 12 Ways to Write Terrible Documentation
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): Boilerplate
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): Changing Bosses
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): From Acrobat to FrameMaker
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): Contracting for Fun & Profit
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): The Acrobat & the Illustrator
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): First Day
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): Interview & Negotiation
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): Phone Interview
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): Let’s Get Visual
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): Visio Meets FrameMaker
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): Working Together Separately
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): The Sinking Ship is in Beta
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): Document Mismanagement System
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): Quick Review of the Quick Start Guide
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): Life without Editors
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): Marketing and the Technical Writer
- Document Hack (A Technical Writer’s Journal): When a Project Ends
- The Technical Writing FAQ
- Living Documentation: The Future of Technical Writing
Guest Bloggers
- Why Writing Deadlines May Be (Almost) As Good As Money
- Writing from the Boat
- Six Suggestions for Sustainable Writing: Inspiration from Frank Herbert’s Dune
- 5 Ways Writers Can Get Their Lives Back
- Afraid to Call Yourself a Writer? (Me Too)
- Blogger TMI
- A Newbie’s Advice
- Wrap Your Naked Statistics in a Warm Blanket of Meaning
- So Much in Common: The Truth about Editing and Bull Riding
- Homegrown Poetry Retreats
- Seven Powerful Tips for Maximizing Your Freelance Writing Business
- Blogging Changed My Life
- Learn to be a Better Writer by Becoming a Better Critic
- Want to be a Freelance Writer? Get Ready for Business!
- White Papers: The Niche Where 20 Pages Can Net You $20,000 - Really!
- Using Slang and Accents When Writing Fictional Dialogue
- “A small sheik escaped” and other editing exercises to energize your writing
- The Intersection of the Personal and Professional, or, Why My Attempts at Nonfiction Essays in Grad School Bombed
- 7 Secrets to a Striking Essay
- Writing as a God
- Get Rid of Ugly Wordiness: How to Cut Your Novel Down to Size
- Please Welcome My Guest Bloggers
- Writer, Edit Thyself
- Whodunnit, Howdunnit, And Whydunnit: 10 Tips For Writing Your Mystery Novel
- Successful Writing and Reporting for Newspapers
- The Tricky Art of Self-Publishing
- Are you Ready to Freelance?
- Compiling Quizzes
- The Query Trap
- Prospecting for Markets
- Overcoming the Fear of Writing a Synopsis
- Getting Started in Newspaper Freelancing
- Mentoring for Writers
- Writing for Money
- Getting Ready to Write: Rituals vs. Distractions
- The Interviewing Conundrum
- Inspiring the Inspirational Writer
- Group Therapy: Finding, forming, joining and participating in writers' groups
- Creating Your Own Documentation Library
- Dial E for Editor
- Deadlines and How to Make Them Work For You
- Using Creativity Techniques in Your Writing Career
- Concrete Writing
- Compound Words: A Proofreading Pitfall
- So You Want To Be A Christian Writer?
- Writing for City Web Sites
- A Lesson in Writing From My Cat
- Wake Up and Smell the Technology
- Benevolent Dictators: The Truth About Editors
- The Beginner’s Guide To Freelance Writing
- How to Write Animal Friendly Articles
- A Penny for Your Prose
Writing Business
- The Basics of Press Releases
- Freelancing Means Customer Service
- Are You Determined Enough to be a Freelance Writer?
- Why Newspapers are Dying (and what they can do about it)
- I am Iron Man
- Team Building: A trip to the dark side
- Successful Freelance Writers are Running a Business
- Successful Freelance Writers Are Like Pirates
- Successful Freelance Writers Say No
- Successful Freelance Writers Avoid Soul Sucking Meetings
- Successful Freelance Writers Don’t Underprice Their Services
- Successful Freelance Writers Know How to Use a Feed Reader
- Successful Freelance Writers Keep an Eye on the Competition
- Successful Freelance Writers Don’t Take Revisions Personally
- Successful Freelance Writers Don’t Waste Time on Email
- Successful Freelance Writers are Surrounded by Terrible Freelance Writers
- Successful Freelance Writers Know How to Close the Sale
- The Writer’s Strike is Over
- Three Reasons to Support the WGA Strike and Three Ways You Can Do It
- Monster List of Freelancing Tips
- 2007 Writing / Editing Average Salaries
- Finding Your Market
- Five Simple Ways to Help Market Your Writing
- 5 Ways to Start Making Freelance Money TODAY!
- Super Simple Submissions Tracker
- Glossary of Publishing Terms
- College Majors for Aspiring Writers
- Small Magazines are Taking a Big Financial Hit
- Using the Web to Find Writing and Editing Jobs
- The Five Habits of Successful Freelancers
- Five Things a Freelancer Should Know Before Querying a Magazine
- Promoting Your Services: Buy Business Cards
- Mainstream Erotica
- Clarification About Self PublishingWho Should Self Publish
- The Rise of the Literary Paperback
- Poetry Dot Shaft
- Case Studies in Professional Writing Ethics: A Little Programming Company
- Case Studies in Professional Writing Ethics: A Little Lobbying Firm
- Case Studies in Professional Writing Ethics: Introduction
- Wronging Writers: Don’t Get Taken
- Avoiding Poetry Contest Scams
- Some Business Advice for Writers
- Freelance Writing Advice
- Working From Home
- Web Content Development: The New Writing Career
- The Dangers of Writing on Spec
- Escaping the Slush Pile
- How to Sell Articles to Daily and Weekly Newspapers
- Formatting a Short Story for Submission to a Potential Publisher
- Sending Effective Press Releases
- How to Write a Query Letter
- How to Become an Expert Writer in Any Field
- Copywriting: Writing to Sell
- Directory of Writers’ Colonies
- Groups and Association for Writers
- Glossary of Writing Careers
- The Basics of Book Profits
- How to Find Publishing Industry Jobs
- College and Writers: Undergraduate Majors
Blogging
- Blogging as a Publishing Business: Personal Blogs (Diaries)
- Blogging as a Publishing Business: What is a blog?
- Blogging as a Publishing Business: Political Blogs
- Blogging as a Publishing Business: Business Blogs
- Blogging as a Publishing Business: How Much Money Can You Make?
- Blogging as a Publishing Business: Choosing a Service Provider
- Blogging as a Publishing Business: Hybrid Blogs
- Blogging as a Publishing Business: Subject Matter Blogs
- Blogging as a Publishing Business: Photo Blogs
- Blogging as a Publishing Business: Academic Blogs
- Blogging as a Publishing Business: Who should try it?
- Writing Blog Madness Final: #1 Seed Daily Writing Tips Versus #1 Seed John August
- Game 30: #1 Seed John August Versus #5 Seed Men With Pens
- Game 29: #1 Seed Daily Writing Tips Versus #4 Seed Confident Writing
- Writing Blog Madness: The Final Four
- 27 New Link Love Articles This Week
- Game 28: #2 Seed I’d Rather Be Writing Versus #5 Seed Men With Pens
- Game 27: #1 Seed John August Versus #6 Seed Write From Home
- Game 26: #1 Seed Daily Writing Tips Versus #6 Seed Crime Fiction Dossier
- Game 25: #3 The Copywriting Maven Versus #4 Seed Confident Writing
- The Elite Eight Judging Criteria
- Writing Blog Madness: The Elite Eight
- Game 24: #2 Seed I’d Rather Be Writing Versus #6 Seed PODdy Mouth
- Game 23: #5 Seed Men With Pens Versus #8 Seed Publishing Careers
- Game 22: #2 Seed Content Maven Versus #6 Seed Write From Home
- Game 21: #1 Seed John August Versus #5 Seed How to Start a Successful Freelance Writing Career
- Game 20: #6 Seed Crime Fiction Dossier Versus #7 Seed The Writing Journey
- Game 19: #1 Seed Daily Writing Tips Versus #4 Seed Grow Your Writing Business
- Game 18: #3 Seed The Copywriting Maven #7 Seed Words on the Water
- Game 17: #1 Seed Copyblogger Versus #4 Seed Confident Writing
- Writing Blog Madness First Round Scoreboard
- Get Ready for Round Two of Writing Blog Madness!
- Round 2 Bracket Update
- Game 16: #2 Seed I’d Rather Be Writing Versus #7 Seed The Book Sistah
- Game 15: #3 Seed Jane in Progress Versus #6 seed PODdy Mouth
- Game 14: #4 Seed Writing on the Web Versus #5 Seed Men with Pens
- Game 13: #1 Seed Writers Write Versus #8 Seed Publishing Careers
- Game 12: #2 Seed Content Maven Versus #7 Seed Writer’s Notes
- The World’s Simplest Freelance Rate Formula
- Game 11: #3 Seed The Golden Pencil Versus #6 Seed Write From Home
- Game 10: #4 Seed Editor’s Blog Versus #5 Seed How to Start a Successful Freelance Writing Career
- Game 9: #1 Seed John August Versus #8 Seed Quiet Rebel Writer
- Are Archives pages THAT Important?
- Game 8: #2 Seed Writing White Papers Versus #7 Seed The Writing Journey
- Game 7: #3 Seed All Freelance Writing Versus #6 Seed Crime Fiction Dossier
- Game 6: #4 Seed Grow Your Writing Business Versus #5 Seed Book Marketing Bestsellers
- Game 5: #1 Seed Daily Writing Tips Versus #8 Seed C. Hope Clark
- Game 4: #2 Seed Bob Bly Copywriter Versus #7 Seed Words on the Water
- Game 3: #3 Seed The Copywriting Maven Versus #6 Seed Be the Story
- Game 2: #4 Seed Confident Writing Versus #5 Seed Renegade Writer Blog
- Game 1: #1 Seed Copyblogger Versus #8 Seed The Struggling Writer
- March Writing Blog Madness Seedings
- March Writing Blog Madness Explained
- March Writing Blog Madness
- 5 Reasons I Love Blogging More than Freelancing
- What I Learned from Writing Blog Madness: Content vs. Commerce
- Fear and the Guest Blogger
- Top 10 Blogs for Writers
- 200+ Articles for Bloggers
- Bloggers Writers Should Read
- How and Why to Start Your Own Print or Web Zine
Poetry
- Five Lessons Poets Can Learn From Henry Rollins
- 7 Easy Steps to a More Pretentious Poem
- 7 Great Ways to Become the Victim of a Poetry Contest Scam
- Weekly Poetry Assignment 6: Feeling the Flow
- Poetry Assignment: Write a Poem about a Gathering
- Poetry Assignment: Imagery
- Weekly Poetry Assignment 4: Difficult Subjects
- Some Recently Published Books of Poetry You Might Want to Read
- Weekly Poetry Assignment 5: More Poetic Terms
- Weekly Poetry Assignment 3: Poetry and Photographs Weekly Poetry Assignment 2: Water
- Weekly Poetry Assignment 1: Compilations and Love Poems
- Poetry Writing Tips Explained: Tip 11
- Poetry Writing Tips Explained: Tip Ten
- Poetry Writing Tips Explained: Tips Eight and Nine
- Poetry Writing Tips Explained: Tip Seven
- Poetry Writing Tips Explained: Tip Six
- Poetry Writing Tips Explained: Tip Five
- Poetry Writing Tips Explained: Tip Four
- Poetry Writing Tips Explained: Tip Three
- Poetry Writing Tips Explained: Tip Two
- Poetry Writing Tips Explained: Tip One
- Poetry Publishing on the Cheap: Chapbooks
- Four Ways to Publish Your Poetry
- Four Things Poets Can Learn From George Carlin
- Poetry Across the Web
- A Quick Guide to Acrostic Poetry
- Bukowski
- What are Metaphor, Simile and Analogy?
- What is a Stanza?
- Poetry Writing Tips
- Poetry In Forms Series: Tercet and Triad
- Poetry in Forms Series: Epistle
- Poetry in Forms Series: Cinquain
- Doublets, Cinquains and Adelaide Crapsey
- Rhythm and Stress
Fun
- 10 Reasons Freelancing is for Suckers
- Why PoeWar?
- 6 Ways to Tell You Were Hungry When You Wrote Your Last Short Story
- 10 Ways to Annoy the Hell out of your Writers’ Group
- Some Inspirational Quotes
- 10 Ways to Make Editors Hate You Before They Even Know You
- Writing Your Way Out of a Wet Paper Sack
- 40 Fabulous Faults of Freelance Failures
- Top 12 Signs that the Fantasy Novel You’re Working on has Gone Horribly Awry
- How to tell if your Project Manager is an Insane Moron
- How to Freelance for a Private Detective or a Mental Patient
- 15 Ways the Harry Potter Books Would Be Different if They Were Written by Bret Easton Ellis
- Want to Write a Novel Badly? Here’s How!
- Helium offers me tons of money and millions of readers. BS? Let’s see.
- Smallville
- Quotations about Writing and Books