My favorite writing articles

Synopsis to the Third Power by Linda Windsor. This is not your ordinary synopsis workshop

http://www.lindawindsor.com/goodies/weavingthesynopsis.htm

The Lover's Journey by Deb Hale for an excellent workshop and articles on how the Hero's Journey works in romance. Follow the links in her offer of workshop.

http://www.deborahhale.com/

Something for everyone and every need. Alicia Rasley's Article of the Month and her archived collection of articles. Alicia Rasley's excellent site has too many good articles to list. Check it out for yourself.

http://www.sff.net/people/alicia/index.htp

Building Three-Dimensional Characters by Connie Flynn.

http://members.cox.net/cflynn11/articles_tips1.html

Creating Your Hero's Fatal Flaw by Laurie Campbellan excellent description of the nine enneagram types.

http://www.booklaurie.com/workshops_flaw.html

Writing The Perfect Scene by Randy Ingermanson. This one makes scene and sequel and motivational-reaction units as described by Dwight Swain actually make sense. Also a description of the Snowflake Method (a plotting guide).

http://www.rsingermanson.com/

Developing Emotional Depth. A must read by Melissa James

http://www.melissajames.net/Articles-Main.htm

Questions for interviewing your characters. Great stuff. Try this out at home.

http://www.booklaurie.com/tips_interview.html

I especially like the self-editing ideas on Stephanie Bond's site, which has tons of articles.

http://www.stephaniebond.com/writers'_articles.htm

Discovering Story Magic, a great workshop by Laura Baker. Bits and pieces of the workshop are incorporated into her articles.

http://members.aol.com/lbaker10/articles.htm

There are excellent workshop transcripts on this site. I especially recommend Susan May Warren's workshops

http://www.dancingword.net/workshoptranscripts.htm

Generating an editor/agent pitch by Kathy Carmichael.