Creative Writing
General Information
Creative Writing Minor
How to Make Your Writing Funnier
William Strunk Jr.'s and E. B. White's The Elements of Style
Ted Talks
Chimamanda Adichie's The Danger of a Single Story
Elif Shafak's The Politics of Fiction
Andrew Stanton's The Clues to a Great Story
David Silverstein's The Pleasure of Poetic Pattern
Writing Resources
Videos from TED-Ed
Kurt Vonnegut on The Shapes of Stories
Nalo Hopkinson's How to Write Descriptively
Kate Messner's How to Build a Fictional World
Matthew Winkler's What Makes a Hero?
Tim Adams's An Antihero of One’s Own
Alex Gandler's How to Recognize a Dystopia
World Building Resources
Map Generators
Artifexian’s YouTube series on building realistic fantasy maps.
Inkarnate: free and pro version.
Building Generators
Procgen Mansion by watabou: offering various architectural styles and other options. Each mansion even comes with floorplans.
Languages
References for the Setting/Plot
Random Job Generator: The site also offers more generators like characters, plots, or town names.
Havocscope provides information and threat intelligence on the global black market.
Grammar
7 Rules of Punctuating Dialogue from ThinkWritten
Punctuation in Dialogue from The Editor's Blog
Have a creative piece you're interested in publishing? We have information on the how-tos and where-to-goes in our publication section.
Organizations
Academy of American Poets
Creative Nonfiction
Poets and Writers
Further Reading Resources
Fiction
Anne Bernays's and Pamela Painter's What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers
Christopher Beha's essay collection The Writer's Notebook II: Craft Essays from Tin House
Ursula K. Le Guin's Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew
Annie Dillard's The Writing Life
Janet Burroway, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, and Ned Stuckey-French's Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft (9th Edition)
Poetry
Chad Davidson's and Gregory Fraser's Writing Poetry: Creative and Critical Approaches (Approaches to Writing)
Kim Addonizio's Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within
S. Dobyns's Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry
Nonfiction
William Zinsser's On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Dinty W. Moore's Crafting The Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Non-Fiction
Screenwriting
Blake Snyder's Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
Syd Field's Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting