WELCOME TO THE RESOURCE LIBRARY!

This is still growing, but to begin with, we have a variety of resources for you to enjoy. Feel free to reach out if you are looking for a resource that isn't here.

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FRIENDS OF THE FIFTH BRAIN

Links to partners offering cool, other-ed guidance

• Four Queens: Where Creativity and the Oracular Meet

• Molly McCloy: Fearless Storytelling Workshops

• Kye Davolt: Art + Design

• Starstream Production: Audiobook and Video Production

• Scriblab

LINKS TO RESOURCES ON CRAFT

• Janice Hardy's Fiction University

  This is one of your go-to resources. Take some time to browse and enjoy. You’ll find topics you didn’t even know you needed to study.

  Start with the left-hand navigation menu, which offers articles divided into subjects such as “Developing Your Novel,” “Writing Your Novel,” and “Common Writing Problems.” Each subject lists another menu of essential areas. For instance,  under “Writing Your Novel,” you’ll find “Dialogue and Internalization,” “Point of View (POV),” and “Pacing,” among other topics. Once you click on the topic you need help with, you’ll find lists of articles. Most are written by Janice Hardy, but she also invites guest authors to contribute articles. This is a tiny sampling of what you’ll find on Hardy’s site. Don’t forget to check out her “Regular Columns” listed at the bottom of the left-hand menu, where you’ll have access to the expertise of a range of authors writing in a variety of genres.

• Plotting

  Under “Developing Your Novel,” this topic offers a sampling of over 40 articles on plots and subplots, prologues, opening scenes, inciting events, middles, endings, and narrative drive.

• Dialogue and Internalization

  Under “Writing Your Novel,” the list here ranges from formatting to speech tags to infodumps.

• Point of View (POV)

  Also under “Writing Your Novel,” this topic lists 21 articles on POV with a link to more at the bottom. Browse through the list and see what draws you. With titles like “How POV Can Solve Your Writing Troubles” to “Are You Talking to Me? Addressing the Reader,” you’ll find plenty to sink your writing chops into.

• Pacing

  Also under “Writing Your Novel,” many of these articles are by guest authors and topics range from understanding how to control your pacing to fixing pacing problems.

INTERVIEWS WITH FRANKIE ROLLINS

• “Frankie Rollins of SandScript | Ep. 1 The Interview Series,” 2021

• JMWW, “In Conversation: Beth Alvarado and Frankie Rollins,” 19 October 2020

• s[r] blog, “The Grief Manuscript: An Interview with Frankie Rollins and Eric Aldrich,” 15 September 2020

• “Community of Writers,” Interview with Sandra Shattuck, YouTube, April 2019

• Fairy Tale Review, “Pins & Needles No. 46: Elizabeth Frankie Rollins,” 16 February 2016

• The Best American Poetry, “The Punk Singer and the Florist: A conversation between Frankie Rollins and Selah Saterstrom,” by Sarah Suzor, 19 April 2013

• Arizona Public Media, “Sin Eater Explores Unsettled World,” Spring 2013

• Zócalo, “The Sin Eater and Other Stories,” Author Interview by Jamie Manser, 2 June 2013

• “Short Story Writing: An Interview withElizabeth Frankie Rollins” (interviewed by Anthony Sovak), 2013

• Women’s Quarterly Conversation, “Profiles in Linguistics: Elizabeth Rollins,” 15 July 2012

• Nailed, “One Note: Elizabeth Frankie Rollins,” Summer 2011

• Tarpaulin Sky, “Q&A: Elizabeth Rollins,” questions posed by Selah Saterstrom, August 2006