Encouraging Writing!

[entrenous88]

Wow. Four live chats/discussions yesterday, and man -- invigorating, overwhelming, exhausting, inspiring. Thanks so much to everyone who participated with great comments and good humor. Special thanks go out to our lovely mods: nashmaveric, spuzz, bettina256, and velvetandlace. e.t.a. -- links to discussions to arrive soon.Today's schedule and issues

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[entrenous88]

A general writing book: Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg. A volume with great writing ideas -- suggestions for free-writing, challenges with characters, the general account of one writer's struggle to keep her writing fresh and interesting and improving and ongoing.

Grammar rec -- It's not hilarious or wacky, but it's good solid grammar guidance: The Bedford Handbook ed./written by Diane Hacker. I've taught composition classes using this as a joe basic grammar guide, and it's straightforward and helpful.

Series site guide rec: The Annotated Buffy. About the references and worldview that make up the Whedonverse, episode by episode.

Fanfic Writing: The BtVS Writers' Guild. Portal site to dozens of wonderful writing resource sites for characters, pairings, genres. Most of the sites have (required to have for approval) a fanfiction archive or links to recommended fanfiction related to their specialized character or subject, essays on their topic, related materials, extras like links to vids and graphics or trivia

[spikedluv]

Great idea, Jess! Without having to think about it at all I can recommend this one: I rely heavily on the transcripts from Buffyworld.com.

[velvetandlace]

Special thanks go out to our lovely mods: nashmaveric, spuzz, bettina256, and velvetandlace.
Anytime, anywhere is my general reaction!

So -- lots of different discussions could happen in this post/thread. How about resources for writers: transcript sites, episode guides, grammar books, general writing practice books (like Writing Down the Bones, etc.)?
I can bet most people will agree with this resource:

The Buffy Dialogue Database. (http://vrya.net/bdb/index.php) Absolutely invaluable as a resource.

A good style/grammar guide is Strunk and White's Elements of Style,
or even
Lynn Truss' Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Both highly recommended for sharpening writing focus and style and structure.

Another fandom-related resource I try and provide features critical studies of fandom and Buffy combined with academia here: http://fray-adjacent.blogspot.com/ *coughplugcough*

Or how about your general approach to

[evilmaniclaugh]

sangpassionne set up a community to store all our useful links in so in case the pc's crash we have an online resource for all sorts of diverse links from the historical to the bizarre. I don't know if she wants it made public and seeing as she's living it up in Vegas I can't ask her so I won't give out the link but it's a fab idea.

all links, all the time

[dodyskin]

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Re: all links, all the time

[dodyskin]

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