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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Generative Prompts and Guides

• Lynda Barry's X Page Exercise below: Works to develop brainstorm scene details before giving you time to create a new scene regardless of genre.

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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
• 10 Short Story Submissions
• Paying Markets 2021
• Short Story Markets 2022
• 12 Short Story Publishers
• The Atlantic​
• 30 Small and Indie Publishers list​

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

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How to submit

• Resources & Query Tips ​from Lit. Agent Eric Smith
• How to Write a Novel Synopsis from Graeme Shimmin
• How to write a Killer Logline from Graeme Shimmin
• A Beginners Guide to Publishing (cover letters, formatting) by Aubrey Hirsch
• How to write an author's bio from Anna Sproul-Latimer
• Pitch Basics from Jane Friedman
• Manuscript Format by Jill Williamson
• Legal Resources for Creatives from Lawyers for the Creative Arts

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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 Life

Marketing

• How to Overcome Perfectionism (for writers)
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• Google Alerts

Writing: Craft*

Writing: Flash (fiction and cnf) & Short Fiction

thewritepractice.com/show-dont-tell-writing

• Worldbuilding and the Iceberg by Brandon Sanderson
• Dialogue and the Maid & Butler by Brandon Sanderson
• 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
• Write Active Scenes instead of exposition: 
  • https://thewritepractice.com/show-dont-tell-writing/
• Plot and Aristotle by William Kowalski
• Storytelling by Lisa Cron (Wired for Story)
• Character development: Biographical and Psychological lens (video)
• Mystery Writing Basics by Angela Ackerman
• The Structure of a Murder Mystery by Karen Woodward
• 9 Openings to avoid by Kristen Nelson.
• Writing Emotions​

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

• 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
• 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  
• ​Genre Guide: Women's Fiction, Upmarket, Romance, Lit?
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• Handbook: Guide to Writing
• Guide: Purdue OWL Grammar
• Guide: Purdue OWL Mechanics
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