Cindy's craft articles

​Skaggs, Cindy. "Personal Reportage: Eyewitness to the World." Medium.com, 12 August 2020.
Skaggs, Cindy. "Writing: Beginnings and Endings." Medium.com, 5 August 2020.
Skaggs, Cindy. "Theme and Symbols as Writing Tools." Medium.com, 29 July 2020.
Skaggs, Cindy. "Genre by Any Other Name." Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Blog, 21 September 2018.

​Additional writing craft articles at The Write Place.
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Where to submit 

• Submittable: See their Discovery page to find new literary journals and additional markets
• DuoTrope
• The Submission Grinder
• New Pages
• Creative Nonfiction

To check the credibility of the magazine, journal, or contest see Writer Beware

How to submit

• Resources & Query Tips ​from Lit. Agent Eric Smith
• How to Write a Novel Synopsis from Graeme Shimmin
• A Beginners Guide to Publishing (cover letters, formatting) by Aubrey Hirsch
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Writing: Business

• Who Pays Writers​
• Building a 6 Figure Freelance Writing Business by Tom Corson Knowles.
• Writing Slideshows by Bob Mayer

Writing: Platform

• Author Platform Worksheets by Jane Friedman
• Writing Portfolio by ProofreadNow
• Writing Portfolio by clippings.me
• Writer's Bio by Scribofile
• Writer's Bio by Gatekeepers Press

Writing: Craft*

• What is Head-Hopping, and Is It Spoiling Your Fiction by Louise Harnby Fiction Editor
• How to Craft Immersive Scene Setting by Kristen Kieffer
• Show Don't Tell by Jerry Jenkins
• Active Verbs by Constance Hale
• Plot and Aristotle by William Kowalski
• Storytelling by Lisa Cron (Wired for Story)

*The writing craft elements are storytelling elements used and manipulated by writers, not including grammar, mechanics, editing, and revision.

Writing: Flash and Short Fiction

Writing: Flash Nonfiction

• Flash Fiction at 100 Word Story
• Flash Fiction by Venita Blackburn
• History of Flash by Sandra Arnold
• Lovely Little Fictions by Tara Laskowski
• Flash Fiction by Sherrie Flick
• Flash Fiction by Kathy Fish
• A Short Short Theory by Robert Olen Butler
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• Flash Nonfiction by Sherrie Flick

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Writing: Editing & Revision

Writing: Grammar & Mechanics

• More Coming Soon
• How to Avoid Unnecessary Filter Words
• Passive Construction by Zombies
• Avoid 'to be' verbs
• Past Tense V Present Tense

Genre

• He for She in SciFi: Men on Feminism in the Genre (4 min video)
  
• Genre by any other name  
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• Handbook: Guide to Writing
• Guide: Purdue OWL Grammar
• Guide: Purdue OWL Mechanics
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