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matorade:
Jim's livejournal was a good start.  What sites and books would you recommend to learn more writing fiction methods/techniques, prefer if there's any that specialize in the fantasy area/series?

daranthered:
Useflul tings for me have been

The Turkey city Lexicon

http://www.sfwa.org/2009/06/turkey-city-lexicon-a-primer-for-sf-workshops/

Beyond that, Stephen King's "On Writing," and Ursula L. Le Guin's "Steering the Craft" were very useful.  I would also be lost without my 1995 edition of the Little Brown Handbook, a college composition and grammar book. 

Other than that I read a lot of fiction, and I read it critically 

Slapdaddy:
http://blog.nathanbransford.com/
and
http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/art/snowflake.php
are two sites that i like a lot. Donald Maas has some books on writing that are very good.

jeno:
The podcasts from Writing Excuses.

(props to Starbeam for finally getting me to listen to them!  :D)

Slowzombie:
I haven't actually read it myself yet (It's next on my list, I swear), but "The Hero With A Thousand Faces"  by Joseph Campbell is a classic about story construction and what have you. Also the book "How NOT to write a novel" is very informative and is good for getting out all those annoying rookie ticks, all while being witty and informative. Finally, there's "Saving the cat," which is primarily a book about writing screenplays, but there's a couple of nifty tricks that any writer should probably keep in the back of their heads.

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