Link Roundup
Books with a Bang: Troy Denning on Writing the Ultimate Climax is good advice about structure and goals. A pitfall of my early, especially long-form writing was that I said “okay, now I need this structural thing because that’s what you do” instead of “okay, now I need to answer this question or follow this thread of the story.”
Resolve to Write: 52 Writing Exercise to Hone Your Craft is a useful list more of books than of writing exercises. Honestly, I’m not a big fan of prompts or exercises, as these things inevitably aren’t what I’m interested in or what inspires me. But reading the books or the shows it suggests, I find I do find something that inspires me and that I want to explore myself.
Finding What Works for Your Writing is one of those anecdotal “this is how a published author writes stuff” stories that I find interesting, if not something necessarily to emulate.
