Quixotic Boot Camp

A creative writing workshop for ChefQuix designed by WallyGlutton.

Warm-up Drills

Complete the following drills, in order, at your own pace.

• LeadingSentences (Complete + Glutton Notes)
• StoryClassification (Complete)
• SingleSentenceSummary (Complete + Glutton Notes)
• CharacterConstruction (Complete)
• CharacterDialog (Complete)
• FinalParagraph (Task Pending)

Writing Drills

• AbsurdConstraints (Complete)

Your Novel

• YourUniverseInThreeParts (Response Pending + Quota Bonus)

BBC Get Writing Mini-Courses

Beginner

• Finding Inspiration (external)
• Finding Your Voice (external)

Intermediate

• Creating Characters (external)
• Descriptive Powers (external)
• Developing Dialogue (external)
• Editing Your Work (external)
• Genre-Buster: Science Fiction (external)
• Perspective: First Person (external)
• Perspective: Third Person (external)
• Researching Your World (external)

Advanced

• Writing a Novel  (external)
• Showing & Telling (external)
• Structural Integrity (external)

Inspiration & Technique

The Craft According To...

• Kurt Vonnegut's rules for creative fiction
• Steven King - Everything you need to know about writing successfully (external)
• Robert Louis Stevenson on some technical elements of style in literature (external)
• George Orwell - Politics and the English Language (external)

Constraint & Experimentation

• BasicEnglish
• Toward a General Theory of the Constraint (external)
• Gadsby - A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter “E” (external)
• The Bible in Basic English (external)
• Language is a Virus (external)
• Fifty Word Fiction (external)
• The Oulipo: Constraints and Collaboration (external)
• Constrained.org - Writing Challenges (external)
• Constraint - Table of Forms (external)

Writing A Novel

• Advice on Novel Writing by Crawford Kilian (external)
• How to write a novel in 100 days or less (external)
• Writing the Perfect Scene (external)
• Narrative Voice (external)
• The Heart of the Story  (external)

Common Errors and Advice

• William Safire's rules for writers
• Writerisms and other Sins: A Writer's Shortcut to Stronger Writing (external)
• Ten Mistakes Writers Don't See (external)

Grammar, Style, and Rhetoric

• The Elements of Style - William Strunk, Jr. (external)
• A Guide to Grammar and Writing (external)
• Common Errors in English (external)
• John P. Broderick - The Able Writer: A Rhetoric and Handbook (external)
• A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices (external)

Tools

• Roy Peter Clark - Fifty Writing Tools (external)
• Online Text Analysis (external)
• Mappalujo a Writing Game (external)

Wiki Support

• WikiStyle - find out how to edit wikis
• SandBox - play around here to figure out how to edit wiki pages