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Writer's bible Part 1

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10th century in literature
11th century in literature
12th century in literature
13th century in literature
14th century in literature
15th century in literature
16th century in literature
17th century in literature
18th century in literature
19th century in literature
A-Plot
Academic history
Act (drama)
Action (literature)
Action fiction
Adventure fiction
Adyghe Habze
Affirmative and negative
African literature
Afro-American religion
Agent (grammar)
Akan religion
Akkadian literature
Albanian literature
Albanian mythology
Alexander romance
Alien (literary concept)
Alien invasion
Allegory
Allegory in the Middle Ages
Alliteration
Alliterative verse
Alter ego
Alternate history
American literature
Anagnorisis
Anagram
Analogue (literature)
Ancient Canaanite religion
Ancient Egyptian literature
Ancient Greek literature
Ancient language
Ancient literature
Ancient Mesopotamian religion
Ancient Semitic religion
Angel
Anglo-Norman literature
Anglo-Saxon paganism
Animacy
Animism
Antagonist
Anthropomorphism
Anti-romance
Antihero
Antilabe
Antinovel
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Apocalyptic literature
Apocrypha
Apologetics
Aporia
Applied Drama
Aqua drama
Arabic literature
Archenemy
Archetypal literary criticism
Archetype
Argentine literature
Aristeia
Armenian literature
Armenian mythology
Ars Poetica (Horace)
Article (publishing)
Articulation (sociology)
Artificial intelligence in fiction
Artistic license
Ascended master
Asemic writing
Ashta Nayika
Aside
Assemblage (composition)
Associated motion
Astral plane
Asyndeton
Audience
Augustan drama
Aureation
Australian Aboriginal mythology
Australian literature
Author
Author surrogate
Authorial intent
Authoritarian literature
Autobiographical novel
Autobiography
Autograph
Avesta
Ayyavazhi mythology
Aztec mythology
Babylonian religion
Backstory
Backwards episode
Balanced sentence
Ballantine Adult Fantasy series
Balor
Baltic mythology
Baluba mythology
Bandersnatch
Bangladeshi English literature
Bangsian fantasy
Bantu mythology
Barbarian
Baroque
Basque mythology
Bathos
Beat (filmmaking)
Bengali literature
Bhagavad Gita
Biblical theology
Bibliography
Bibliography of King Arthur
Big Dumb Object
Bildungsroman
Biographical criticism
Biographical novel
Biography
Biopunk
Bizarro fiction
Black comedy
Blessing
Body swap
Book
Bourgeois tragedy
Brazilian literature
Brazilian mythology
Breaking character
Breeches role
Breton literature
Brevis commentarius de Islandia
British literature
British regional literature
Buddhist mythology
Buddhist texts
Burra katha
Bushongo mythology
Byzantine literature
Caesura
Cambion
Campaign setting
Campus
Campus novel
Canadian literature
Candomblé
Canon (fiction)
Canonical criticism
Captivity narrative
Catalan literature
Catalan myths and legends
Catastasis
Catastrophe (drama)
Catharsis
Causal loop
Caveman
Celtic mythology
Central conceit
Ceremony
Chamber of rhetoric
Chamber play
Chanson de geste
Chant
Character (arts)
Character actor
Character animation
Character arc
Character blogging
Character comedy
Character dance
Character flaw
Character piece
Character race
Character sketch
Characterization
Characters and races of The Dark Crystal
Chekhov's gun
Cheshire Cat
Chicago school (literary criticism)
Childhood secret club
Children's literature
Chilote mythology
Chinese literature
Chinese mythology
Chivalric romance
Christian literature
Christian mysticism
Christian mythology
Christian novel
Christian science fiction
Christology
Circe in the arts
Class S (genre)
Classical Arabic
Classical Armenian
Classical Chinese
Classical language
Classical mythology
Classical unities
Classicism
Classics
Cliché
Cliffhanger
Climate fiction
Climax (narrative)
Clip show
Closet drama
Closet screenplay
Clusivity
Cold reading (theatrical)
Colombian literature
Comedy
Comedy (drama)
Comedy of manners
Comic book death
Comic fantasy
Comic novel
Comic science fiction
Comics
Comparative literature
Comparative religion
Comparison (grammar)
Composite character
Composition (language)
Composition studies
Conceit
Confession (religion)
Conflict (narrative)
Contemporary fantasy
Contemporary romance
Continental Germanic mythology
Continuity (fiction)
Contrast (linguistics)
Contrast (literary)
Cosmicism
Cosmology
Costumed character
Courtesy book
Covenant (religion)
Crastinal tense
Creative nonfiction
Creatures of Terabithia
Creed
Crime fiction
Criticism
Critique
Croatian literature
Crossover (fiction)
Cthulhu Mythos
Cuban literature
Cult following
Cultural materialism (cultural studies)
Culture of Ecuador
Culture of Georgia (country)
Curaçao
Curse
Cut-up technique
Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk derivatives
Czech literature
Dahomean religion
Damsel in distress
Dark fantasy
Dark Lord (fiction)
Darwinian literary studies
Deathtrap (plot device)
Declamation
Deconstruction
Decree
Defamiliarization
Definiteness
Definitions of science fiction
Deictic Field and Narration
Demon
Demonology
Description
Detective fiction
Deus ex machina
Deuteragonist
Dialectic
Dialogic
Dialogue
Dialogue in writing
Diary
Diction
Didacticism
Diegesis
Dieselpunk
Différance
Dinka religion
Dionysian imitatio
Directorial beat
Dirge
Distancing effect
Divination
Docufiction
Documentary film
Documentary practice
Domestic drama
Domestic tragedy
Doppelgänger
Dragon
Drama
Drama teaching techniques
Dramatic monologue
Dramatic structure
Dramatic theory
Dramatica (software)
Dramatistic pentad
Dramatization
Dungeons & Dragons
Duodrama
Dutch-language literature
Dwarf (mythology)
Dying Earth (subgenre)
Dyslexia
Dystopia
Early English Jewish literature
Early Irish literature
Early medieval literature
Early Modern literature
Ecclesiology
Echthroi
Ecocriticism
Education
Efik mythology
Egyptian mythology
Elam
Electracy
Elemental
Elf
Elfland catacombs
Elves in fantasy fiction and games
Emblem book
Emergent literacies
Enchanted forest
Encyclical
Encyclopedic novel
Ent
Epic (genre)
Epic poetry
Epilogue
Episodic storytelling
Epistle
Epistolary novel
Epitasis
Ergodic literature
Erotic literature
Erotic romance novels
Eroticism
Erzya literature
Eschatology
Essay
Estonian mythology
Ethnofiction
Ethos
Etruscan mythology
Eucatastrophe
Euphuism
European folklore
Evidentiality
Evocation
Excursus
Exercises in Style
Existentialism
Experimental literature
Explorative strategies
Exposition (narrative)
Extraterrestrials in fiction
Ezra Pound's Three Kinds of Poetry
Fable
Fabliau
Fabula and syuzhet
Fairy
Fairy godmother
Fairy tale
Fairytale fantasy
False document
False protagonist
Familiar spirit
Family
Family saga
Fan fiction
Fantastic
Fantastic (magazine)
Fantastic art
Fantastique
Fantasy
Fantasy comics
Fantasy fiction magazine
Fantasy film
Fantasy literature
Fantasy of manners
Fantasy television
Fantasy tropes
Fantasy world
Feminist literary criticism
Feminist science fiction
Femslash
Fiction
Fiction writing
Fiction-writing mode
Fictional city
Fictional country
Fictional location
Fictional universe
Figurative analogy
Figure of speech
Finnic mythologies
Finnish mythology
First-person narrative
Flashback (narrative)
Flashforward
Flashing arrow
Focal character
Focalization
Focus (linguistics)
Foil (literature)
Folk Catholicism
Folk play
Folklore
Folklore of Romania
Foreshadowing
Form criticism
Formalism (literature)
Formalism (philosophy)
Formula fiction
Fourth wall
Frame story
Frames and distance
Frankenstein
Frankish mythology
Frisian literature
Friulian literature
Future history
Future perfect
Future tense
Gag character
Galician-language literature
Gargoyle
Gaslamp fantasy
Gay pulp fiction
Ge'ez language
Genealogy
General epistles
General revelation
Generic character (fiction)
Genre
Genre studies
Geocriticism
Georgian mythology
Gerald Prince
Germanic mythology
Germanic paganism
Ghost character
Ghost story
Giant (mythology)
Glossary of literary terms
Gnome
Goblin
Gods and demons fiction
Golden age (metaphor)
Gong'an fiction
Gospel
Gothic double
Gothic fiction
Grammar
Grammatical aspect
Grammatical case
Grammatical gender
Grammatical modifier
Grammatical mood
Grammatical number
Grammatical person
Grammatical tense
Graphic novel
Great Conversation
Greek mythology
Gremlin
Grotesque body
Gryphon (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Guarani mythology
Gustav Freytag
Guyanese literature
Had I but known
Hadith
Haitian mythology
Haitian Vodou
Half-giant
Half-orc
Halfling
Hamartia
Hamartiology
Hamburg Dramaturgy
Happy ending
Hard fantasy
Hard science fiction
Hawaiian narrative
Hebrew literature
Hebrew poetry
Hero
Hero's journey
Heroic drama
Heroic fantasy
Hesternal tense
High fantasy
Hindi literature
Hindu mythology
Hindu texts
Hircocervus
Historical criticism
Historical fantasy
Historical fiction
Historical mystery
Historical period drama
Historical romance
History
History of fantasy
History of ideas
History of modern literature
History of science fiction
History of theatre
Hittite mythology
Hobgoblin
Hodiernal tense
Hollywood novel
Homage (arts)
Homily
Honorifics (linguistics)
Hoodoo (folk magic)
Hook (filmmaking)
Horror and terror
Horror comics
Horror fiction
Horror fiction magazine
Horror film
Horror Victorianorum
Human–animal hybrid
Humour
Hungarian mythology
Hurrians
Hymn
Hyperbole
Hyperdrama
Hypertext fiction
Hypocatastasis
Hypostasis (literature)
Hysteron proteron
I Novel
Iceberg Theory
Icelandic literature
Idiom
Idiot plot
Imagery
Imaginary voyage
Imitation (art)
Imprecatory Psalms
In medias res
Inca mythology
Incantation
Indian English literature
Indian epic poetry
Indian literature
Induction (play)
Inscape and instress
Inspirational fiction
Intellectual history
Interdiscourse
Intermedio
Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Intertextuality
Inuit religion
Invagination
Involuntary narrative
Iranian mythology
Irish literature
Irish mythology
Irony
Islamic fiction
Islamic literature
Islamic mythology
Isoko people
It was a dark and stormy night
Italian literature
Jamaican literature
Japanese literature
Japanese mythology
Jewish literature
Jewish mythology
Jiangshi fiction
Jinn
Joke
Journal of Narrative Theory
Jubjub bird
Juvenile fantasy
Jèrriais literature
Kabbalah
Kaikuzi
Kairosis
Kaluli creation myth
Kamba people
Kannada literature
Kenosis
Ketuvim
Kintu
Kishōtenketsu
Kobold
Korean literature
Korean mythology
Kumina
Kōan
Lab lit
Lament
Landscape
Languages of India
Latin
Latin literature
Latin translations of the 12th century
Latvian mythology
Law
Lectionary
Legal thriller
Legend
Legendary creature
Leitmotif
Lesbian pulp fiction
Lesbianism in erotica
Letter (message)
Levite
Lexis (Aristotle)
LGBT themes in horror fiction
LGBT themes in speculative fiction
Light novel
Lingua franca
Linguistic modality
Linguistic typology
List of Asian mythologies
List of body horror media
List of creation myths
List of European literatures
List of fantasy anime
List of fantasy authors
List of fantasy novels (A–H)
List of fantasy novels (I–R)
List of fantasy novels (S–Z)
List of fantasy television programs
List of fictional location types
List of languages by first written accounts
List of legendary creatures by type
List of lingua francas
List of miscellaneous fictional animals
List of mythological objects
List of mythological places
List of mythologies
List of mythology books and sources
List of Narnian creatures
List of narrative forms
List of narrative techniques
List of non-narrative films
List of nonlinear narrative films
List of nonlinear narrative television series
List of Once Upon a Time creatures and races
List of science fiction authors
List of stock characters
List of works set in a single day
List of world folk-epics
List of writing genres
Lists of books
Lists of deities
Lists of fantasy films
Lists of legendary creatures
Lists of writers
Literary criticism
Literary element
Literary fiction
Literary forgery
Literary genre
Literary language
Literary modernism
Literary nonsense
Literary particularism
Literary science
Literary theory
Literature in the other languages of Britain
Literature of Kosovo
Lithuanian mythology
Liturgy
Locus (magazine)
Lost city (fiction)
Lost World (genre)
Lotuko mythology
Lotus Sutra
Lovecraftian horror
Low fantasy
Lozi mythology
Lugbara mythology
Lusitanian mythology
Luxembourg literature
Maasai mythology
MacGuffin
Magic in fiction
Magic realism
Magical creatures in Harry Potter
Magical girl
Magician (fantasy)
Magocracy
Mal du siècle
Malagasy mythology
Malay folklore
Malayalam literature
Maltese folklore
Mangarevan mythology
Manuscript
Manx literature
Mapuche religion
Marathi literature
Mariology
Marriage plot
Marxist literary criticism
Mary Sue
Mascot
Mass hysteria
Mathematical fiction
Matron literature
Matter of Britain
Matter of France
Matter of Rome
Maya mythology
Mbuti mythology
Media (communication)
Media consumption
Medical fiction
Medieval Bulgarian literature
Medieval Dutch literature
Medieval fantasy
Medieval French literature
Medieval German literature
Medieval Greek
Medieval Latin
Medieval literature
Medieval poetry
Medieval Serbian literature
Medieval Spanish literature
Medieval theatre
Medieval Welsh literature
Melanesian mythology
Melodrama
Memoir
Men's adventure
Mental image
Messiah
Meta-reference
Metafiction
Metahistorical romance
Metanoia (rhetoric)
Metaphor
Metaphoric criticism
Metaphysics
Metatheatre
Metonymy
Mexican literature
Micronesian mythology
Middle Eastern mythology
Middle English literature
Middle Persian literature
Milesian tale
Military science fiction
Mimesis
Mind monkey
Mirative
Mock Turtle
Mode (literature)
Monologue
Monopod (creature)
Monster erotica
Monster literature
Mood (literature)
Moral
Morality play
Motif (narrative)
Motive (law)
Musical fiction
Mystery fiction
Mystery play
Mysticism
Myth
Myth of redemptive violence
Mythic fiction
Mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the Americas
Mythology
Mythology in France
Mythology of Indonesia
Mythology of Italy
Mythopoeia
Mythos (Aristotle)
Māori mythology
Nanopunk
Narration
Narrative
Narrative criticism
Narrative designer
Narrative environment
Narrative history
Narrative hook
Narrative network
Narrative paradigm
Narrative poetry
Narrative structure
Narrative thread
Narrativity
Narratology
Narreme
Nart saga
National myth
Nativity play
Natural theology
Nature
Nautical fiction
Necromancy
Nevi'im
New Criticism
New Historicism
New literacies
New Testament
New Weird
New Zealand literature
New-adult fiction
Newari literature
News
Nigerian literature
Non sequitur (literary device)
Non-fiction novel
Non-narrative film
Non-player character
Nonfuture tense
Nonlinear narrative
Nonpast tense
Norse mythology
Norwegian literature
Noun class
Novel
Novel in Scotland
Novella
Numeracy
Obeah
Object of the mind
Objectification
Occitan literature
Occult
Occult detective fiction
Odinani
Official history
Official language
Ogre
Old English literature
Old Georgian language
Old High German
Old Norse literature
Old One in fiction
Old Testament
Old Turkic language
Olmec religion
Onomatopoeia
Ooops! Noah Is Gone...
Opening narration
Opera
Oracle
Oracy
Oral literature
Orality
Orc
Organic form
Organic unity
Origin myth
Origin of the Kurds
Origin story
Ossetian mythology
Out of character
Outline of literature
Oxymoron
Pakistani literature
Paleo-Balkan mythology
Pali literature
Palo (religion)
Panamanian literature
Panotti
Pantathians
Papuan mythology
Parable
Paradise of Fools
Paradox (literature)
Paraguay
Parallel universe (fiction)
Paranormal fiction
Paranormal romance
Paratext
Parody
Passion Play
Past tense
Pastiche
Pathetic fallacy
Pathos
Patristics
Pauline epistles
People's history
Performance
Performance studies
Peripeteia
Persian literature
Persian mythology
Persona
Peruvian literature
Peryton
Philippine mythology
Philosophical fiction
Philosophical theology
Philosophy
Philosophy of religion
Picaresque novel
Pilgrim
Pitch (filmmaking)
Plagiarism
Planetary romance
Planets in science fiction
Plantation tradition
Plato
Play (theatre)
Player character
Plot (narrative)
Plot device
Plot drift
Plot hole
Plot point
Plot twist
Pluperfect
Pneumatology (Christianity)
Poetic Edda
Poetic justice
Poetics (Aristotle)
Poetry
Point-of-view shot
Polish mythology
Political fiction
Political satire
Political thriller
Polynesian narrative
Polyphony (literature)
Polyptoton
Polysyndeton
Popular history
Portal:Literature
Portuguese literature
Post-structuralism
Postcolonialism
Postliterate society
Postmodernism
Praise
Prayer
Pre-Christian Alpine traditions
Prediction
Prehistoric fiction
Premise (filmmaking)
Present day
Present perfect
Present tense
Problem play
Process drama
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Prologue
Prophecy
Protagonist
Protasis
Proto-Indo-European religion
Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
Proverb
Prussian mythology
Psalms
Pseudepigrapha
Psychoanalytic literary criticism
Psychological effects of method acting
Psychological horror
Psychological thriller
Public rhetoric
Pulp magazine
Punch and Judy
Puranas
Purple prose
Quantum fiction
Quest
Questing Beast
Quibble (plot device)
Quimbanda
Quran
Rabbinic Judaism
Rakugo
Rambhadracharya's literary style
Rapa Nui mythology
Reader-response criticism
Real time (media)
Recurring character
Red herring
Redaction
Redaction criticism
Referential density
Regency novel
Regency romance
Register (sociolinguistics)
Relative and absolute tense
Relevance
Religion and mythology
Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia
Religions of the ancient Near East
Religious epistemology
Religious text
Renaissance literature
Renaissance tragedy
Representation (arts)
Resistance (creativity)
Revelation
Reverse chronology
Revisionism (fictional)
Rhetoric
Rhetorical criticism
Rhetorical modes
Rhetorical operations
Rhizome (philosophy)
Rigvedic deities
Robert McKee
Robinsonade
Roman mythology
Roman à clef
Romance novel
Romani mythology
Romantic comedy film
Romantic fantasy
Round-robin story
Rule of three (writing)
Russian formalism
Ryukyuan religion
Sacred language
Sadness
Saga
Sami shamanism
Samoan mythology
San religion
Sangam literature
Sanskrit
Sanskrit literature
Santería
Satire
Scandinavian folklore
Scandinavian literature
Scene (drama)
School story
Schooled (novel)
Science fantasy
Science Fantasy (magazine)
Science fiction
Science fiction comics
Science fiction convention
Science fiction fandom
Science fiction film
Science fiction magazine
Science fiction on television
Scientific romance
Scientific writing
Scots-language literature
Scottish literature
Scottish mythology
Screenplay
Screenwriting
Scythian religion
Second-person narrative
Secret history
Secret identity
Secret world
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Self-insertion
Semiotic literary criticism
Semiotic square
Semiotics
Senecan tragedy
Sense of wonder
Serpent Men
Setting
Setting (narrative)
Sex and sexuality in speculative fiction
Shakespeare's writing style
Shamanism in Siberia
Shapeshifting
Shared universe
She-tragedy
Shooting script
Short story
Show, don't tell
Sicilian School
Simile
Simulated reality
Single screen (game perspective)
Siren (mythology)
Skald
Skandranon
Slave narrative
Slavic literature
Slavic mythology
Slipstream (genre)
Social
Sociological criticism
Sock and Buskin
Socratic method
Soft science fiction
Somali mythology
Song
Sorbian literature
Soteriology
Source criticism
South African literature
Southern Gothic
Space opera
Spam poetry
Spanish mythology
Spec script
Special revelation
Specificity (linguistics)
Speculative fiction
Spell (paranormal)
Sphinx
Spirit
Spiritual autobiography
Splatterpunk
Spoudaiogeloion
Spy fiction
Standard language
Standpoint theory
Steampunk
Stichomythia
Stock character
Story arc
Story generator
Story within a story
Storytelling
Stream of consciousness (narrative mode)
Stream of unconsciousness (narrative mode)
Structuralism
Stylistic device
Stylistics (field of study)
Subplot
Subterranean fiction
Subtext
Sumerian literature
Sumerian religion
Superfluous man
Superhero fiction
Supernatural fiction
Supporting character
Surinamese literature
Suspense
Suspension of disbelief
Sutra
Sword and planet
Sword and sorcery
Syd Field
Sylph
Symbol
Symbolism (arts)
Sympathetic character
Syntagma (linguistics)
Syriac literature
Tahiti and Society Islands mythology
Talent show
Talking animals in fiction
Tall tale
Talmud
Tamil literature
Tamil mythology
Technical writing
Techno-thriller
Technology education
Technomancy
Teichoscopy
Telicity
Telugu literature
Testament
Textual criticism
Thanksgiving
The American Monomyth
The Chaucer Review
The Dying Earth
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
The Holocaust
The Imp of the Perverse
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
The Seven Basic Plots
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
Theatrical realism
Theatrical style
Theme (narrative)
Theology
Theology proper
Thing theory
Third-person limited narrative
Third-person omniscient narrative
Three-act structure
Thriller (genre)
Throwaway line
Tiberian Hebrew
Tibetan mythology
Ticking time bomb scenario
Time travel in fiction
Tom show
Tone (literature)
Tongan mythology
Topic and comment
Torah
Traditional African religion
Traditional Berber religion
Traditional story
Tragedy
Tragicomedy
Traitté de l'origine des romans
Transition (fiction)
Transitivity (grammar)
Transliteracy
Transportation theory (psychology)
Transtextuality
Travel literature
Travesti (theatre)
Treatise
Trial film
Tripiṭaka
Tritagonist
Troll
Trope (literature)
True crime
Tumbuka mythology
Turkic mythology
Turkish literature
Tuvaluan mythology
TV Tropes
Two-hander
Type scene
Types of fiction with multiple endings
Types of mythological or fantastic beings in contemporary fiction
Ultra-Romanticism
Umbanda
Undead
Understatement
Unicorn
Unreliable narrator
Unseen character
Urban fantasy
Urban fiction
Urban legend
Urdu literature
Utopia
Utopian and dystopian fiction
Vainakh mythology
Valency (linguistics)
Vampire literature
Vampires in popular culture
Varsity novel
Vedas
Vedic mythology
Verisimilitude (fiction)
Verse drama and dramatic verse
Vietnamese literature
Vietnamese mythology
Virtual reality
Vision (spirituality)
Voice (grammar)
Volition (linguistics)
Warumbe
Weird fiction
Weird Tales
Well-made play
Welsh literature in English
Welsh mythology
Wererat
Werewolf
Werewolf fiction
West African mythology
Western (genre)
Western literature
Wheel of fire
Whig history
White magic
William Blake's mythology
Wisdom literature
Witchcraft
Women's erotica
Women's fiction
Worghest
World language
World literature
Worldbuilding
Writer's block
Writing process
Writing style
Writing system
Wuxia
Yaoi
Yiddish literature
Yoruba religion
Young adult fiction
Yuri (genre)
Ziran
Zooming (writing skill)
Zulu mythology