Links of Interest to Writers

Here's a little info to get your started writing this morning:

• Creativity's Workshop:  Creative Action:  Freewrite About Your Writing Fears by Jessica Baverstock @JessBaverstock

• Writing is Hard Work:  5 Tips for Finishing a Writing Project by Roger Colby @RogerDColby

• FutureLearn:  Free Online Courses from leading UK and International Universities @FutureLearn

• Writer's Digest/Brian Klem's Blog:  8 Reasons Every Book Needs a Business Plan to Achieve Success by Nina Amir @NinaAmir

• Project Mayhem:  Considering Common Themes in  Middle Grade Books by Joseph McGee @mcgeejp

• LitReactor:  The Top 10 Reasons I May Have Rejected Your Short Story by Susan DeFreitas @manzanitafire

Links of Interest to Writers

Words of wisdom about writing.

• Copyblogger:  The Lede:  How to Use Persuasive Words by Jerod Morris @JerodMorris @Copyblogger

• Mary Carroll Moore/How to Plan, Write, & Develop a Book:  Winter Doldrums? Ten Fun Exercises to Get Going on Your Writing Again @writeabook

• Everyone's Story:  Jim Denney:  Replacing Fear With Courage In Writing @WriterJimDenney @ElaineStock

• Writer's First Aid:  A Walking Idea Factory by Kristi Holl @KristiHoll

• Creative Writing with the Crimson League:  5 Strange Truths Authors Know About Productivity by Victoria Grefer @vgrefer

• M. J. Wright:  Essential Writing Tools:  Why Paper's an Essential Editing Tool  @MJWrightNZ

Links of Interest to Writers

Take some time to writing something special today. Here are some articles that might help you!

• All Write - Fiction Advice:  Redundancy in Fiction Writing by A.J. Humpage @AJHumpage

• Writers Helping Writers:  Using Emotional Discharge to Power Up Your Story by MJ Bush

• The Creative Penn:  Writing Tips:  Using Real Life Fear and Pain to Springboard Your Story by Eric Praschan  @EricPraschan @thecreativepenn

• Write To Done:  How to Write Children's Picture Books by Tara Lazar @taralazar @WritetoDone

• Artzicarol Ramblings:  Writing Sequences of Events by Carol Riggs @Artzicarol

• Babbles from Scott Eagan:  Edit Everything! @greyhausagency

Links of Interest to Writers

It's cold outside! Great time for reading & writing. Here are some suggestions:

• From The Write Angle:  Things Non-Writers Don't (Always) Get by R. C. Lewis

• Jamie Gold:  The Ultimate Gift Guide for Writers (A comprehensive guide to gifts for you or your writing friend.)

• The Write Practice:  How to Write & Launch a Thriller Novel:  Interview with Joanna Penn by Joe Bunting

• The Business of Being an Author:  Don't Let the Pain of Rejection Blind You to the Opportunities by Marquita Herald

• Writer's First Aid:  Writing During the Holidays by Kristi Holl

• Kristen Lamb:  The Duality of Character Traits - Why We Need the Good, the Bad and Even the Ugly by Becca Puglisi

Links of Interest to Writers

Read, read, read, write, write, write, revise, revise, revise - the cycle of life!

• File this under creative ways with books! Mental Floss:  13 Sculptures Made Out of Books

• PiBoldMo Day 12:  Elizabeth Rose Stanton Procrastidoodles

• Lauren Sapala:  Taking Emotions Risks in Your Writing

• Publisher's Weekly:  Best Children's Books of 2013

• PUB(Lishing) Crawl:  A Peek at an Editor's To-Do List by Jordan Hamessley London

• The League of Extraordinary Writers:  Building a Story From Atmosphere by Bethany Hagen

Links of Interest to Writers

The fun of writing is knowing what you're doing and doing it well! Here are some articles that might help with that.

• The Other Side of the Story:  Plotting with the Hero's Journey by Janice Hardy

• The Narrative Breakdown:  Character Flaws, Pt 1 (Podcast)  

• Institute of Children's Literature:  "Don't Quit Too Soon" by Jan Fields (Poetry)

• The Daring Novelist:  Story Game:  Erle Stanley Gardner's Plot Wheels  by Camille LaGuire

• Sally Apokedak:  Description - A Little Goes a Long Way

• The Character Therapist:  Your Character's Greatest Fear...or Anxiety? by Jeannie Campbell

• Brain Pickings:  2013 Nobel Prize in Literature Laureate Alice Munro on The Secret of a Great Story