General
icarusancalion - Fandom Security - I helped a college student from a religious family set up her "security" to keep her parents out of her slash (and before you ask, no, she had no interest in abandoning her religion, she just felt her interest in slash fanfiction was irrelevant). She had other people's advice but here were a few of my suggestions

redbird - The world is so full of a number of things - Most of the time, getting comments emailed is useful or amusing.

Fandom-Specific ( Cut for possible spoilers in Doctor Who and Supernatural fandoms. )

On Creating and Criticism
minisinoo - Develop, develop, develop ... or Random Observation the Eleventy-Second on Beginning Writers' Errors - Those beginning writers therefore commit classic beginning-writer errors, among them being: // 1. Overtell, and // 2. Undertell

tkp - Meta on metaphors. Hahahaha that was too easy. - I learned some things once that helped me find a *way* to think about metaphor, and that's what I want to share.

kangeiko - Fannish 5: Five Fanfic Cliches I Hate - 1. 'Slash' involves making one of the characters effeminate

paradox_dragon - 4 Basic Story Types - So, I've been re-reading the book Characters & Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card from the Elements of Fiction Writing series. In chapter five, he defines four types of story: Milieu, Idea, Character, and Event (MICE); though he allows for some fluidity between the types of story, his view is that the characteristics of one type are (or should be) always dominant in a particular story, and that the dominant story type determines what readers expect from the writer, particularly in terms of characterization and the resolution of the story.