  CrystalRei Welcome to WA! Read First: Rules and List of Interesting Topics Welcome to the index! As you may or may not know, Writers Anonymous is not only the largest general forum on this site, but has been around for quite some time now. Thus we have tons of useful advice... that quickly gets buried in the almost 200 pages of threads we have. Until now! :D Please feel free to revive a thread on a topic you find interesting - we're happy to have that rather than so many threads with scattered bits of advice. (That said, do pay attention to the dates of the thread and its last post and bear in mind that the original poster may be long gone.) This project was spun off of thelastpen's Topic Links Clearinghouse and my own updates. However useful it was, it was interspersed by other posts and not always easy to navigate, often because it was so useful everyone wanted it to be pinned. ;) In the mission to get this place organized, Rhea and I had a conversation and decided that a full, cleaned up index of the forum would be a good resource to have, and thus this thread was created. Hopefully this will be a great starting point for everyone, newcomers and regulars alike; but it's going to be in progress for quite some time. See below for current progress. Here's the link to the Original Writers Anonymous Topic Links Clearinghouse - please direct all comments about the forum index to the Clearinghouse thread, as we would like to keep the contents of this thread as the index only, i.e. any non-index posts here will be deleted and moved to the Clearinghouse. However, please feel free to point out duplicate links, suggest highlights or improvements, or point out threads you think should be there that I missed; either in the clearinghouse thread or in a PM to me. :) Any suggestions/advice on organization would be incredibly useful - I'm trying to make things as easy to find as possible. There may or may not be a thread for a potential Index Improvement Project at some point. Probably when I get through the last page of the forum. Tip: If you have a specific topic in mind, hit CTRL-F (control key plus the F key) and it will bring up a search box if you're using Windows (on a Mac, it's Command-F). In Internet Explorer, the search box will be at the top of the page; in Firefox it will be at the bottom (idk about any others). Type a key word and it will highlight all instances of that string of characters on the webpage. You can then click 'next' to jump to each instance. This works on any webpage, but unlike traditional search engines it will only search for that exact string of characters (think if you put your search terms in quotes in Google), so single words are usually best. Try a couple key words if you can think of synonyms. I go with what's most obvious to me but that might not be the first thought for someone else. Note: Highlighted links are ones that I found to have a lot of input, exceptional advice, or just really interesting discussion. Suggestions are welcome, of course. :D This ties into the use of the forum tags (rather than the categories put in the titles). The tags are intended to pull out "the best of the best" of what WA has to offer: threads that have lots of good advice and are widely useful - similar to what gets them highlighted here. Naturally we want to keep the categories relatively small (otherwise that kind of defeats the purpose!), so as of now I'm periodically removing the tags from most threads that weren't put there specifically by the mods; but if you know of a thread that you think deserves to be there, you can ask Rhea or myself to add it, either in PM or in the original Clearinghouse thread.
Index-building progress: - Everything created as of 6-30-23 and last updated 6-1-12 or later has been covered.
- Everything has been copied from the clearinghouse updates, along with all FAQs/Recs/Plug threads linked to the main ones.
- 9-24-15: Added reference links for each category in the table of contents section.
- 7-5-18: I believe that's now five years worth of threads that have been indexed. :)
- 4-11-19: Small announcement - some of the links formerly under the "Dealing with" list in Traffic/Feedback are now under 'Interacting on this Site' in the Site Discussion post. They were moved because they weren't really story or author 'feedback' (mostly the ones about harassment and similar) and not necessarily limited to reviews. Also, separating them out should hopefully make the former list easier to sift through. Also, I think we have exactly six years of threads indexed. :)
- Recent Updates: January through June 2023, April through December 2022, April 2021 through March 2022, June & July 2012
Index Categories, by Post: Writing: The Process Of - Everything about actually getting words on the screen or page. (link) Writing Techniques and Discussion - "How to Write/Use X"; from Character Development to Commas. (link) Games and Critique Threads - Self-explanatory. (link) Research Topics - Threads that are focused more on "what would realistically happen" rather than "how to write it". (link) Recommendations, Self-Plugs, and FAQs - Most are pinned or linked to a pinned thread, but for completion's sake, and the occasional troubleshooting thread that takes off... (link) Traffic Stats: Views, Visitors, Favorites, Follows, and Reviews - Anything and everything about feedback on this site. (link) Site Discussion - This site, its community, and its rules. (link) Rating Troubles - Gets its own section since it's so common. Where (we think) the lines are, and other things related to the ratings. (link) Plagiarism, Story Theft, Copyright Infringement, and Other Legal Stuff - Exactly what it sounds like. (link) General Discussion - Basically, for the stuff that doesn't really fit elsewhere. Various get-to-know-you threads, this forum's history, chat threads, the fanfic community... (link) 7/23/2015 . Edited 11/30 #1 |
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