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Category:Writing Definition
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This category has the following 197 subcategories, out of 197 total.
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- Satire
- Science Fantasy
- Science Fiction
- Screenwriter
- Second Person
- Secret Environment
- Setting
- SF Glossary
- SF Narrative Technique
- SF Plot Device
- SF Slang
- Short Story
- Show vs Tell
- Show, Don't Tell
- Simile
- Slang
- Slipstream
- Slush Pile
- Social SF
- Soft SF
- Source Fritz
- Spark
- Speculative Fiction
- Starship
- Starting
- Story Element
- Story End
- Story Start
- Storyboarding
- Storytelling
- Style
- Swashbuckling
- Sword and Sorcery
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Pages in category "Writing Definition"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,719 total.
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- A-plot
- AAAWG
- AAAWG technical session
- AAGWG
- Abbess phone home
- Abbreviation
- Absent-minded professor
- Accidental AI
- Achilles
- Acid western (genre)
- Acronym
- Act (theatre)
- Acting
- Action (genre)
- Action girl (trope)
- Action hero
- Action movie
- Action outline
- Action scene
- Action-adventure (genre)
- Action-adventure (trope)
- Action-adventure trope
- Adam and Eve story
- Adjective
- Advance the story
- Adventure (genre)
- Adventure novel
- Adverb
- Affect the reader
- Agent
- Air war (genre)
- Alibi
- Alien intervention (trope)
- Alien viewpoint
- Alliteration
- Alliterative name
- Allusion
- Alternate ending
- Alternate history (genre)
- Alternate history (trope)
- Alternate history event
- Alternate history fantasy (genre)
- Alternate universe
- AM/FM
- Amber (world)
- American folk hero
- American News Company
- Amnesiac hero
- Amoral scientist
- Anachronism
- Anagnorisis
- Anagram
- Analepsis
- And plot
- Anime
- Ankh-Morpork City Watch
- Annotation
- Antagonist
- Anthology
- Anthropomorphism
- Anti-romance
- Anti-villain
- Antihero
- Aphelion
- Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
- Apocalyptic fantasy (genre)
- Apocalyptic science fiction (genre)
- Apotheosis
- Appositive
- Archenemy
- Archetype
- Archimime
- Archmage
- Areography
- Aristeia
- Arthur C. Clarke Award
- Article (publishing)
- Artist-scientist
- Artistic licence
- As others see us
- "As you know Bob"
- ASCII
- Assassin
- Astrogate
- At stake
- Atmosphere (literature)
- Atompunk (genre)
- Audience
- Audience surrogate
- Author
- Author surrogate
- Author wiki
- Author's platform
- Authorial
- Authorial device
- Authorial habit
- Authorial intent
- Authorial intentionality
- Authorial intrusion
- Authorial laziness
- Authorial lecture
- Authorial praise
- Authorism
- Authors platform
- Autobiography
- Avoid neologisms
- Avoid run-on sentences
- Avoid slang and dialect
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- Babies switched at birth
- Backfill (writing)
- Background
- Background critique
- Backstory
- Bad guy
- The bad guys win (trope)
- Bad publishing
- Bad writing
- Bad writing advice
- Bait and switch (writing)
- Bangsian fantasy (genre)
- Barbarian
- Barf and polish
- Barf phase
- Bathos
- Beat (dialogue)
- Beat (film)
- Beat (writing)
- Begin fallacy
- Beginning writers
- BEM
- Benevolent aliens (trope)
- Best seller
- Beta draft
- Beta phase
- Beta reader
- Beta reader document formats
- Beta tester
- Bibliography
- Big Bad
- The Big Reveal
- Big scene
- Big six publishers
- Bildungsroman
- Biography
- Biopunk (genre)
- Black box scene analysis
- Black Knight
- Black spot (Treasure Island)
- Blake Snyder’s 15-beat structure
- Blogging
- Blood and guts
- Blurb
- Body (writing project file)
- Body swap
- Bogus alternatives
- Boilerplate document
- Boilerplate template
- Bolt-on
- Bolt-on magic
- Bolt-on tech
- Book
- Borderline superhero fiction
- Boss (video games)
- Bounty hunter
- Bow
- Boy next door
- Brainstorming
- Brand name fever
- Breaking the Fourth Wall
- Brenda Starr dialogue
- Bride of Dracula
- Bridge (writing)
- British spelling
- Broadcast signal intrusion
- Theodore Marley Brooks
- Buffoon
- Bug-eyed monster
- "Burly detective" syndrome
- Burning building rescue (trope)
- Business (narrative)
- Busting the weirdness budget
- Butler and maid dialogue
- Byronic hero
Media in category "Writing Definition"
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