Links of Interest to Writers

Here are today's offerings. Writing stuff I found on the Internet:

• The Kill Zone:  Crafting an Effective Opening  by Clare Langley-Hawthorne 

• Mental Floss:  Famous Novelists on Symbolism in Their Work & Whether It Was Intentional by Lucas Reilly

• Kirkus:  Best Children's Books of 2013

• Publishing Crawl: Twisting Your Plot by Marie Lu 

• Stavros Halvatzis:  How to Choose Character Names

• The Bane of Your Resistance:  No Time to Write -- Really?  by Rosanne Bane