March 11, 2010 5:37 AM PST

Helpful Links

There used to be a long list of links. It wasn't managed, at all. I need to build a system around them. But for now, here's a couple of unmanaged links that I didn't want to lose, myself:

Market Listings

• Story Pilot
• Spicy Green Iguana
• Speculative Literature Foundation Market Listings

Writing Aids

• Twelve basic plot structures -- Let's Be Friends, Road Movie, Slice of Life, Coming of Age, Escape, Heist, Kill The Monster, Who Dies Next, The Con, Buddy, Do The Right Thing, Poor Boy
• More basic plots -- Quest, Rescue, Contest, Mystery, Change
• The Four Basic Conflicts -- Entity vs. Machine, Entity vs. Nature, Entity vs. Entity, Entity vs. Self
• The Thirty-six (plus one) Dramatic Situations -- taken from Georges Polti, expanded upon
• Random Science Fiction Story Ideas -- sort of. grocery lists of things to pick for characters, job, emotions, items, descriptors, places, events...
• The Center for Life Stories Preservation -- what applies to "real life" applies to fiction
• simple idea generator -- gives you a couple of parameters to write within

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