Alphabetical List of All Writing Lessons

These lessons, by one of our most consistent FaithWriters' Challenge Champions, should not be missed. So we're making a permanent home for them here.

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Alphabetical List of All Writing Lessons

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I'm hoping this list will be useful for those of you who are looking for lessons on specific topics. You'll see that some of the topics aren't links; those are upcoming topics, and they'll be linked as they're added to the forum.

You might also be interested in the other two recently added "sticky" topics: Top 30 lessons for Beginning Writers, and another one that groups this list in (I hope) several other helpful ways.

1st person and memoir
2nd person
3rd person
Acrostic
Action/adventure
Adjective and adverb overuse
Adjectives in the proper order
Allegory
Alliteration
Allusion
Anachronism
Antagonists
Anthropomorphism
Assonance and consonance
Atmosphere
Audience
Avoiding ethnic stereotypes
Beginnings, #1--the 4th judging criterion
Beginnings, #2--the 4th judging criterion
Beginnings, #3--the 4th judging criterion
Biblical fiction
Biography
Biography #2
Breaking the rules, part a
Breaking the rules, part b
Characterization
Clerihew
Clichés
Click bait
Climax
Coming of age story
Commas
Commas with conjunctions
Common errors
Commonly misused words, part 1
Commonly misused words, part 2
Compound sentences
Conclusion #1--the 5th judging criterion
Conclusion #2-- the 5th judging criterion
Conflict
Contemporary fiction
Craftsmanship (3rd judging criterion)
Creative nonfiction
Creative, unique, and fresh (2nd judging criterion)
Creativity (2nd judging criterion)
Critiques—what they look like
Description
Devotionals
Dialect
Dialogue, #1
Dialogue, #2
Dialogue, #3
Enjambment
Exclamation points
Exposition and hook
Fable and parable
Fantasy
Find your own voice
Flow (7th judging criterion)
Formatting Poetry
Free verse, #1
Free verse, #2
Gender neutral language
Geocentricity
Giving and receiving critique
Haiku
Having a point #1--6th judging criterion
Having a point #2--6th judging criterion
Head hopping
Humor
Hyperbole
Imagery
Inspirational writing
Intentional anachronism
Interesting characters
Learning from critique
Learning from the pros
Limerick
Magic endings (NOT about magic)
Man vs. man
Man vs. nature
Man vs. self
Man vs. society
Man vs. supernatural
Melodrama
Metaphor
Meter
Mood
Narrative poetry
Negative critique
Nosy narrators
Onomatopoeia
On topic writing, part a (1st judging criterion)
On topic writing, part b (1st judging criterion)
On topic writing, part c (1st judging criterion)
Onomatopoeia
Out of the box writing
Pacing
Paragraphs
Personification
Plays, skits, and screenplays
Plot
POV #1
POV #2
POV characters
Predictability
Pronouns for God
Protagonists
Publishable writing (8th judging criterion)
Punctuating dialogue #1
Purple prose
Punctuating dialogue #2
Quatrain
Reading to write
Realistic dialog
Repetition
Research in fiction
Research in nonfiction
Resolution
Resources for writers, #1
Resources for writers, #2
Rhyme
Rhyme scheme
Science fiction
Self-editing
Sentence structures
Setting
Setting the Scene
Show, don’t tell
Simple sentences
Slant rhyme
Slice of life
Stream of consciousness
Surprise
Suspense
Suspense/thriller
Symbolism
Tell, don’t show
Tenses
Tight writing
Tiny poems
Tips for writers
Title
Transitions
Transparency
Travelogue
Triolet
Villanelle
Voice, #1
Voice, #2
Voice, #3
Well-constructed nonfiction
Well-constructed poems
Well-crafted short story
Word choice
Working with an editor
Writing lingo
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Thanks Jan. Most helpful.
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Wow Jan thank you for this comprehensive list; I appreciate all the time you have invested. :clap

Some of the links have not been formatted correctly, would you take a look please?
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beaedwards wrote: Some of the links have not been formatted correctly, would you take a look please?
Those are lessons that I haven't written yet, but that I hope to write over the coming weeks.
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Sending many thanks your way, Jan. Can this list remain at the top of the Forum/Thread? I have yet to figure out the difference. :roll: :?

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lish1936 wrote:Sending many thanks your way, Jan. Can this list remain at the top of the Forum/Thread? I have yet to figure out the difference. :roll: :?

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Lillian - pretty sure it already is "pinned" to the top of the forum. :)
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lish1936 wrote:Sending many thanks your way, Jan. Can this list remain at the top of the Forum/Thread? I have yet to figure out the difference. :roll: :?

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Lillian, it's been stickied, so it's not going anywhere.

The forums (plural) are the totality of this area.

A forum (singular) is any one of the locations you can click on from the previous page. "Jan's Writing Basics" is one forum; "The Water Cooler" is another (for example).

A topic is any entry in a particular forum. This topic is "Alphabetical List of all Writing Forums."

A thread is a topic plus all of its responses.

I hope that makes sense to you! Let me know if I can clarify any further.
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Jan wrote:I hope that makes sense to you! Let me know if I can clarify any further.
Yes, it does. I've made it easy to remember. F(s), F, To, Th (Two F's, Two T's.) Just like the two A's for age and accommodations. :D

Thanks, (To you, too, Joanne).

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Oh dear :roll: if I would have read your initial post I would have known that...da sorry.
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Wow Jan
Thumbs up for this. I've been absent for some time from Faithwriters, but saw this today. Very informative and helpful.
God bless you, Jan :superhappy
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