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Creating Great Mystery Characters by Connie Shelton: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/c_shelton2.shtml
Color Me Happy: Adding Emotional Nuance: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/color_me_happy.shtml
First or Third Person POV – Why Choose? http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/first_or_third.shtml
Revealing the Character: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/revealing_pov.shtml
A Character Worksheet: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/knowing_your_character.shtml
Building the Strong Character: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/creating_the_strong_character.shtml
Tinting Exposition with Character http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/tinting_exposition_with_character.shtml
Hidden Motivators: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/getting_to_know_you.shtml
Seeing the Character: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/seeing_your_character.shtml
The Negative Character: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/writing_the_negative_character.shtml
Love at First Sight: Character Bond: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/love_at_first_sight.shtml
Avoid the Plot Puppet: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/puppet.shtml
How to Chat: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st01/lrhowchat.shtml
Is it Christian or Is it Inspirational by Pamela Thibodeaux http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/christian_or_inspirational_fiction.shtml
Writing the Action Scene: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/writing_the_action_scene.shtml
First Person POV: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/first_person_pov.shtml
Third Person POV: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/third_person_point_of_view.shtml
Flashback! http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/flash_back.shtml
Writing the Action Scene: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/writing_the_action_scene.shtml
The Strong Scene: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/the_scene.shtml
Run Don’t Walk: Creating Tension: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/tension.shtml
Fast or Slow: Pacing 101 http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/fast_or_sloww.shtml
From Here to There: Transitions: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/getting_from_here_to_there_transitions.shtml
Embedding Backstory: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/embedding_the_backstory.shtml
What Show Don’t Tell Really Means: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/article.shtml
First or Third Person POV – Why Choose? http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/first_or_third.shtml
Limited Third Person POV http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/limited_third_person__point_of_view.shtml
First Person Show Don’t Tell: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/first_person.shtml
Layering: One Sentence Does Many Things; http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/revision.shtml
Say I Say by Ken Rand: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/say_i_say_ken_rand.shtml
Don't Fall Head Over Heels on the First Draft by Ruth Schiffmann http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/schiffmann.shtml
Tell a Real Story: Creative Nonfiction http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc02/creative_nonfiction.shtml
Write to Inspire by Chynna Laird: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/writetoinspire___chynna.shtml
Story Crafters: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/storycrafters.shtml
Giving (and Taking) Good Critiques: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/critiques.shtml
The NaNo Experience By Pam Lindenau http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/nano_experience.shtml
Starting a Critique Group: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st01/starting_a_critique_group.shtml
Action Tags: Show Don't Tell in Dialogue: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc11/action_tags.shtml
Realistic Dialogue: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/dialogue.shtml
Revealing Character through Dialogue: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/who_am_i11.shtml
First Person Show Don’t Tell: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc06/first_person.shtml
Writing Better http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/writing_better.shtml
Health and Wellbeing
Dark and Stormy Night – Not! Non Narrative Description http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/nonnarrative_description.shtml
Editing 101: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/editing_101.shtml
Active versus Passive Voice: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/active_and_passive_voice.shtml
Writing Books: Are They Good? http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/howtowrite_books.shtml
When Writing Affects the Family by Pam Lindenau http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st04/pam.shtml
Magic Realism: Then and Now http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/magic_realism.shtml
Finding Ideas: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/finding_ideas.shtml
Where Do Stories Come From? by Nancy Varian Berberick http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/berberick.shtml
Fine Find by G S Kearney http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/findfind.shtml
The Family Newsletter by GS Kearney: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/family_newsletters.shtml
The Injured Writer; by Rhett DeVane http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st08/rhett_devane_injured_writer.shtml
Writing the Story Summary http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/using_the_senses_in_description.shtml
Plotting the 1000 Word Short Story: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/plotting_the_short_short.shtml
Long Ridge Submission Guidelines
http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/long_ridge_website_submission_guidelines.shtml
From Screen to Page: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/from_screen_to_page.shtml
Rights, Rights, Rights: What You Own http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/rights_rights_rights.shtml
Breaking into Nonfiction markets http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc02/breaking_into_nonfiction.shtml
Comfort Zone by Becky Crawley http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/crawley.shtml
Seven Steps to Global Writing by Tatiana Claudy http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/claudy.shtml
Tailor Your Article to Sell by Tatiana Claudy http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc02/claudy.shtml
Rights, Rights, Rights: What You Own http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/rights_rights_rights.shtml
Print on Demand and Subsidy Publishing: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/print_on_demand_and_subsidy_publishing.shtml
Mystery Basics: Subgenres: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/mystery_subgenres.shtml
Planting Mystery Clues: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/planting_clues_in_mystery.shtml
How to Plot a Mystery http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/how_to_write_a_mystery.shtml
Creating Great Mystery Characters by Connie Shelton: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/c_shelton2.shtml
The Whodunnit by Connie Shelton http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/c_shelton.shtml
Making the Sale, by Chynna Laird http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc02/ct_laird.shtml
Tell a Real Story: Creative Nonfiction: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc02/creative_nonfiction.shtml
Setting the Hook: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc02/setting_the_hook.shtml
The Nonfiction Query Letter http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc02/writing_the_strong_query_letter.shtml
Finding Your Slant: Slant in Nonfiction: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc02/finding_slant.shtml
The Art of the Interview: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/art_of_the_interview.shtml
Novel Synopsis Example: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/the_novel_synopsis.shtml
The Dreaded (NOT!) Synopsis http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/synopsis.shtml
Blurbing for Structure: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/blurbing_for_structure.shtml
The Subplot: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/the_subplot.shtml
The Chapter Summary: Avoid the First Draft; http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/novel.shtml
Storyboard Template for Chapters by Chris Dale: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/story_boards.shtml
Finding Your Tracks; Organizing Your Fictional Material: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/finding_your_tracks.shtml
A Novel Blurb Template by Jean Lauzier: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st07/speckledorf.shtml
Character and Plot; The Cart or the Horse? by Donna Ippolito http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/
Focus the Lens: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/writing_short.shtml
How to Plot a Mystery http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/how_to_write_a_mystery.shtml
From Idea to Story: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/from_idea_to_story.shtml
Ending It: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/ending_it.shtml
Foreshadowing: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/foreshadowing.shtml
Blurbing for Structure: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/blurbing_for_structure.shtml
Inside and Out: Internal and External Plot: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/plotting_inside_and_out.shtml
First or Third Person POV – Why Choose? http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc05/first_or_third.shtml
Post A Note; What’s In It For You? by Roseanne Dowell http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st01/post_it_testamonial.shtml
You Need a Website http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc07/why_you_need_a_website.shtml
Publishing FictionPublishing Fiction
Submitting 101: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/submitting_101.shtml
Rights, Rights, Rights: What You Own http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/rights_rights_rights.shtml
Starting the Fiction Career: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/beyond_the_first_sale.shtml
To Agent or Not to Agent: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/to_agent_or_not_to_agent.shtml
Getting Your Book into Stores by Debbie Cross http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/getting_your_book_into_stores.shtml
Agent Basics: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/agent_basics.shtml
Doctor! Doctor! When is an Agent Not an Agent? http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/doctor.shtml
Print on Demand and Subsidy Publishing: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/print_on_demand_and_subsidy_publishing.shtml
Submitting 101: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/submitting_101.shtml
Rights, Rights, Rights: What You Own http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/rights_rights_rights.shtml
To Agent or Not to Agent: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/to_agent_or_not_to_agent.shtml
The Selling Query Letter http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc02/getting_to_the_point.shtml
Proposal versus Query versus Cover Letters: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/the_proposalquerycoverletter.shtml
The Wild Wild Wiki by G. S. Kearney http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/wikiways.shtml
Finding Input by Tatiana Claudy http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc02/finding_i.shtml
Finding Your Tracks; Organizing Your Fictional Material: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/finding_your_tracks.shtml
Analyzing Romance by Janet Wellington http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/wellington_article_analyzing_romance.shtml
Not Just a Sappy Love Story by Jean Lauzier: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/lauzier.shtml
Is it Love or Sex? Irene Radford: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/love_or_sex_2.shtml
Doctor! Doctor! When is an Agent Not an Agent? http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/doctor.shtml
Print on Demand and Subsidy Publishing: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc04/print_on_demand_and_subsidy_publishing.shtml
Using the Senses in Description: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/using_the_senses_in_description.shtml
Creating Real-World Settings: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/real_world_setting.shtml
Creating the Universe on the Run: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/creating_the_world.shtml
Writing Speculative Fiction http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/writing_speculative_fiction.shtml
Creating the Universe on the Run: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc03/creating_the_world.shtml
Fine Find by G S Kearney http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/findfind.shtml
Voice Recorders: Review by G.S. Kearney http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st01/kearney.shtml
Back Up Solutions: G. S. Kearney http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st01/bakupdoc.shtml
Enable Active X How To: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st01/lractivex.shtml
PC Basics by G.S. Kearney http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st01/pcbasics.shtml
Writer’s Software – Helpful or Not?: by Petra van der Zande http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/writing_software_van_der_zande.shtml
You Can't Win if You Don't Play By Susanne Shaphren http://www.thelongridgewritersgroup.com/T6020/rx/st03/shaphren.shtml
Is It Too Late? By Nancy Julien Kopp http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/wc01/kopp.shtml
So You’re an Old Wannabe by Kathe Campbell http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/k_campbell_wannabe.shtml
How to Avoid Being Trapped by Nancy Kopp http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/kopp.shtml
Explode or Escape by E.A.Wright http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/wright.shtml
Soliciting 100 Rejection Slips: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/soliciting_rejection_slips.shtml
Beware the Shoulder Vultures; http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/beware_the_shoulder_vultures.shtml
Finding Time: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/finding_time.shtml
Rejection Slips: Dues We All Pay http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st03/rejection_slips.shtml
I Write Because I Can by Humeira Kazmi http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st02/kazmi.shtml
Writing Time: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st02/writing_in_time.shtml
Writing the Everyday Blues: http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com/rx/st02/writing_the_every_day_blues.shtml
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