Someone showed me a wonderful website that is basically full of "rants" a person named Limyaael wrote about the craft of writing, what things are done incorrectly, and how they should be done. Though everything they said is vastly personal opinion, she makes some great points. There's just so much information on this site that I haven't been able to read through it all yet, but everything I'd read through I agreed with. This person has become my writing guru, and I have learned so much about crafting a story in just a single evening. 

http://catnip4writers.com/limyaael.htm CLICK THE EXTERNAL LINK for the site.

Her (is it a her? I'm not sure) rants are based mostly on fantasy novels, but the concepts apply universally to all writing, so everyone please take a look at some of his/her ideas whether or not you are a fantasy writer.