Story Ideas
‘Short Story Ideas’, Creative Writing Now, W Victor
‘Finding Story Topics When Stuck: 5 Simple Methods’ Now Novel
‘200+ Short Story Ideas and How to Come up with Your Own’, Reedsy Blog
‘Top One Hundred Story Ideas', The Write Practice, J Bunting
‘25 Plot Twist Ideas and Prompts for Writers’, Writer’s Digest, R L Brewer
Investigating the Short Fiction Form
‘The Craft of Writing “Great” Short Fiction’, Fiction Southeast Journal, E Herbert-Goodall
'How to Write Killer Endings’, Carve Magazine, M Zadig
‘Stories in Your Pocket: How to Write Flash Fiction’, D Gaffney
‘How to Write an Amazing Short Story’, A Boorman
‘How to Write a Good Short Story’, Open Culture, K Vonnegut
Plot and Structure
‘Story Structure: 7 Narrative Structures All Writers Should Know’, Reedsy Blog
‘The Smart Way to Open a Story’, Medium, C Baxter
‘What is Plot? How to Build Your Story from Beginning to End’, Creative Writing Now, W Victor
‘How to Structure a Story’, Author Learning Centre
‘A Writer’s Cheat-Sheet to Plot and Structure’, The Write Practice, M Herron
Character
‘33 Ways to Write Stronger Characters’, Well Storied, K Kieffer
‘Writing Fiction: Bring Your Characters to Life’, The Creative Penn, R Morris
‘Pro Tips for Avoiding Clichéd Characters in Fiction’, The Writer, J Smith
‘How to Create Nuanced Characters’, Live Write Thrive, N Schuyler
‘Static Characters vs. Dynamic Characters’, Writers.com, S Glatch
Showing vs Telling
‘Showing vs. Telling’, Writer’s Digest, R Biederman
‘Showing and Telling and Trusting the Reader’, Lit Reactor, J Isard
‘Show Don’t Tell: Emotions, Moods and Reactions’, Editor's Quill, J Moy
‘Showing and Telling in Scenes and Dialogue’, Writer’s Digest, J Friedman
‘4 Ways to Deal with Narrative Summaries’, Fiction Notes, D Pattison
Point of View
‘How to Leverage Point of View to Power Your Story’, The Write Practice, J Chase
‘The Ultimate Point of View Guide’, The Write Practice, J Bunting
‘Points of View in Fiction Writing’, Jerichoe Writers, H Bingham
‘The Basics of Point of View for Fiction Writers’, Jane Friedman Blog, J Bates
‘Point of View in 2021: Third Person Omniscient vs. Third Person Limited vs. First Person’,
The Write Practice, J Bunting
Dialogue
‘How to Write Dialogue that Dazzles your Readers’, The Write Practice, J Chase
‘9 Easily Preventable Mistakes Writers Make with Dialogue’, The Creative Penn, A Luke
‘How to Write Incredible Dialogue’, Well Storied, K Kieffer
‘9 Easily Preventable Mistakes Writers Make with Dialogue’, The Creative Penn, J Penn
‘Talk it Out: How to Punctuate Dialogue in Your Prose’, Lit Reactor, T Houston
Working with Theme
‘The “Iceberg Theory” of Writing’, A Headlee
‘Writers on Writing: Pesky Themes will Emerge When You’re Not Looking’, The New York Times, D Johnson
‘How Great Writers Develop the Theme of a Story’ Freewrite Blog
‘What a Story Believes in: Thematic Argument’, Creative Screenwriting, M W Schock
‘What is Theme?’, The Editor’s Blog, B Hill
Language, Structure, Expression,& Grammar
‘How to Write Descriptively’, Ted-ed, YouTube, N Hopkinson
‘Concise Writing: How to Omit Needless Words’, Writers.com, S Glatch
‘Fine Tuning Your Writing to be Concise and Specific’, Live Write Thrive, C S Larkin
‘One Word Leads to the Next: Unconventional Conjunctive Devices’, Lit Reactor, C Palahniuk
‘Using Plain Language in Speculative Fiction’, Lit Reactor, J Isard
Literary Devices
‘Literary Devices’: This site provides an extensive list (and definition/s) of literary terms.
‘Literary Terms’: Another fabulous site with the meaning of literary terms clearly explained.