Resources for Fiction Writers
Practical Tools to Help You Build Better Stories
Writing becomes easier when you can turn an abstract problem into something you can examine and work through.
The Writer’s Black Book Resources provides practical worksheets, checklists and planning tools designed to help fiction writers apply the principles explored throughout the books and articles.
These resources are not intended to impose formulas on your writing. They are designed to help you ask better questions, identify weaknesses and make more deliberate decisions about your story.
Use what helps. Adapt what you need. Ignore what doesn’t.
Foundation Quartet Resources
Tools for the Foundations of Fiction
Thriller Tension Planner
Build and control tension across your story.
Identify the sources of tension in your story, examine what your reader knows at important moments, track increasing pressure and discover where suspense may be weakening.
Designed to complement How to Write a Thriller.
Dialogue Scene Checklist
Make every conversation earn its place.
Examine whether a dialogue scene reveals character, creates or develops conflict, communicates necessary information, changes relationships and moves the story forward.
Designed to complement Dialogue Essentials for Fiction Writers.
Character Development Worksheet
Build characters from the inside out.
Explore your character’s motivations, goals, flaws, contradictions, internal conflicts and the decisions they make when placed under pressure.
Designed to complement Character Creation Mastery.
Novel Plotting Worksheet
Turn an idea into a developing story.
Work through the progression of your novel from its opening situation and central conflict through turning points, escalation, climax and resolution.
Designed to complement Plotting for Novelists.
More Resources Are Coming
The Writer’s Black Book will continue to expand this library with new worksheets, checklists and practical tools covering different aspects of fiction writing.
New resources will be developed alongside future books and articles, creating a growing collection that writers can return to whenever a story presents a new challenge.
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