Links of Interest to Writers

Love to write? These links to articles about writing are for you!

• Writin Geekery:  A Balance of Strengths to Take Your Story Higher by MJ Bush @Writingeekery

• Wordcraft:  The Key to Suspense by Avi

• Anne R. Allen's Blog:  How to Write Blog Content:  9 Tips to Entice Readers to Your Author Blog @annerallen

• Daily Writing Tips:  100 Exquisite Adjectives by Mark Nichol @writing_tips 

• Amanda Bumgarner:  Tips for Humor Writing (Part 1) (Part 2)

• Creative Writing Video Tutorials for the Multimedia Age:  If You Have a Great Character but No Plot by Cy Porter 

Links of Interest to Writers

Read and watch a little about the craft of writing. Here are some links to start with:

• The Seekers:  Five Things I Learned About Writing from Jack Reacher by Tina Radcliffe @TMRadcliffe

• Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast:  Peanut Butter and Jellyfish:  Jarrett J. Krosoczka Discusses His Picture-Book Process [Video]  @StudioJJK

• The Write Practice:  How to Improve Your Metaphors And Similes by Monica M. Clark @monicamclark @write_practice

• Fiction University:  Oh, That's Subtle:  The Little Things Holding a Story Back by Janice Hardy @Janice_Hardy

• Bane of your Resistance:  Action Map Your Way Out of Writers Resistance by Rosanne Bane @RosanneBane
• Action Map Your Way Out of Writers Resistance, Part 2
• Personalize the Action Map to Free Your Writing

Links of Interest to Writers

A few gems on writing to inspire you!

• Creative Writing Video Tutorials for the Multimedia Age:  In Depth "Show Not Tell for Creative Writing by Cy Porter @drawnovel

• Author, Jody Hedlund  6 Key Things to Consider When Developing Characters @JodyHedlund 

• Clear Writing With Mr. Clarity:  Meaningless Nouns Make You Sound Phony by Joe Roy

• Fiction Notes:  Author Website Tech:  Professional Email by Darcy Pattison @FictionNotes

• Kate White:  How to Make Time for What You Love @katemwhite

• Catherine, Caffinated:  To Do:  A Social Media Spring Clean by Catherine Ryan Howard @cathryanhoward

Links of Interest to Writers

What are you going to write next?

• Creative Writing With The Crimson League:  First Person Narration:  Is It Like Dialogue? by Victoria Grefer

• Writers Helping Writers:  Good Heavens--Another Post About Opening Lines? by Becca Puglisi

• The Write Now! Coach:  Your Query Letter:  How to Write An Irresistible Offer by Rochelle Melander

• Writer's Digest - Chuck Sambuchino's Guide to Literary Agents Blog:  7 Tips for Pitching to an Agent or Editor at a Conference by Peggy Eddelman

• Publishers Weekly:  DiCamillo, Floca, Sedgwick Win Newbery, Caldecott, Printz (Awards) by Diane Roback

Links of Interest to Writers

Happy writing to all you authors out there!

• Daily Writing Tips:  Do You Mean Passive or Just Weak? by Maeve Maddox

• Pen & Prosper:  What We Can Learn From The "Little Engine That Could!" Tips to Move Forward ... by Jennifer Brown Banks

• The Seekers:  On Deadline:  How To Make Your Writing Deadlines Work for YOU by Sarah Ladd

• Positive Writer:  Use Discipline to Cultivate the Creative Flow by Stacy Claflin

• My Book Therapy:  Ten Things I Learned On My Writers Retreat by Rachel Hauck

• Pub(lishing) Crawl:  Making The Most of Social Networks As a Writer by Erin Bowman

Links of Interest to Writers

More great writing advice!

• Stavros Halvatzis:  How Conflict Leads To Character Growth

• Pretentious Title:  FAQ:  To Blog Or Not To Blog 

• The Business of Being an Author:  Simple Tactics To Grow Your Author Platform by Marquita Herald

• Susan Uhlig:  175 Proof  (Are you watering down your stories and articles by not proofing carefully?)

• All Write - Fiction Advice:  The Art of Layering - Part 1 by A. J. Humpage

• The Creativity Post:  Daring To Push The Boundaries of Creativity by Carla Woolf

Links of Interest to Writers

What will you write today?

• My Book Therapy:  Getting Past Stuck by Reba J. Hoffman

• The Daring Novelist:  Story Game:  Plot Structure & Finding The Wow by Camille LaGuire

• Novel Matters:  Hunting Adjectives With Elephant Guns by Patti Hill

• Scribbles from Jenn:  Top Ten Tips How to Survive a Relationship With a Writer

• Positive Writer:  Why You're Not Finishing The Writing You Started by Shanan Haislip

• Moody Writing:  What a Story Needs to Begin

Links of Interest to Writers

Write because you love it!

• Writer's Digest/Brian Klems:  A 12-Day Plan of Simple Writing Exercises

• Artzicarol Ramblings:  Ordering Your Words by Carol Riggs

• Seize The Day:  Novel Craft:  5 Common Scene Problems by Molly Blaisdell

• The Write Practice:  Make The Most of Your Writing Time

• A. Victoria Mixon, Editor:  3 Reasons Description Is Important; 3 Reasons It's Not

• Live, Write, Thrive:  Novel Construction Begins With Concept by C. S. Lakin

Links of Interest to Writers

Some vital reading for all writers:

• The New York Times:  Newbery Winner to Promote Her Genre:  Kate DiCamillo to Be Ambassador of Young People's Literature by Julie Bosman

• Glass Cases:  2013:  A Year in Queries by Sarah LaPolla

• Writers Helping Writers:  Using Colloquial Speech To Spice Up Dialogue by Eli Dahle
• Writers Helping Writers:  Writing Tools

• Daily Writing Tips:  The New, Delightful Use of Because by Maeve Maddox

• Writers In The Storm:  Query Letter Pet Peeves - Agents Speak by Chuck Sambuchino

• Brain Pickings:  How Long It Takes To Form A New Habit by Maria Popova

Links of Interest to Writers

What are you waiting for? Start reading!

• The Cybils Finalists (Children's & Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards) 

• Goins, Writer:  500 Words a Day:  The Secret to Developing a Regular Writing Habit by Jeff Goins

• BookBaby:  How To Write Your Book's First Draft Like a Professional

• The Write Practice:  3 Dialogue Terms You Probably Didn't Know (But Should!) by Liz Bureman

• The Nitty Gritty of Children's Writing:  He Thought to Himself and Other Excesses by Susan Uhlig

• Write to Done:  How to Be a Writer:  Do You Use These 3 Vital Keys to Success? by Mary Jaksch

Links of Interest to Writers

It's almost Christmas - why not write a holiday story? Here are some writing links that might help.

• Daily Writing Tips:  Transition Words by Maeve Maddox

• Helping Writers Become Authors:  The Moral Villain by Becca Puglisi

• Brain Pickings:  The Year's Best Books on Writing & Creativity by Maria Popova

• Amanda Bumgarner:  On Setting the Mood

• Get Me Writing:  Getting into Your Writing Headspace

• Fiction Notes:  Writing Out of Sequence by Darcy Pattison

Links of Interest to Writers

Have fun reading about writing with these great articles!

• Huff Post Books:  These Classic Stories Are So Short, You Have No Excuse Not to Read Them by Maddie Crum

• Write to Done:  How to Write Better:  The Art of Dynamic Descriptions by Mary Jaksch

• A Writer's Journey:  Getting the Sequence Right

• The Write Practice:  Finding Big Inspiration in the Smallest Detail by Marianne Richmond

• StoryFix:  From Art Holcomb:  Lester Dent and the Master Fiction Plot

• Writers Helping Writers:  STOP! What To Do Before Revising a Nano Novel

Links of Interest to Writers

Here are a few articles about writing you might find useful.

• Writers Helping Writers:  Conflict vs Tension by Becca Puglisi

• The Write Practice:  What is an Idiom? Funny Examples by Liz Bureman
• Wikipedia:  List of English-language Idioms

• Poets & Writers:  Literary Magazine Database

• Ploughshares:  14 Ways to Tick Off a Writer by Rebecca Makkai

• Buffer:  What Storytelling Does to Our Brains

• Brian Klem's Writer's Digest Blog:  How to Make Your Setting a Character

Links of interest to Writers

Here are some writing nuggets to inspire you.

• Writer's Fun Zone:  Want To Write a Novel? (But Don't Know How To Begin?) by Beth Barany

• Writability:  Why Do Your Characters Like Each Other?

• Time to Write:  Is This The formula for Creativity?

• Word Serve Water Cooler:  5 Writing Rules I've Learned from Pixar

• Wise Ink:  Our Favorite Online Resources for Writing Mechanics

• Nathan Bransford:  Favorite Writing Tips (from readers)

Links of Interest to Writers

Here are seven blog posts about writing I found informative.

• The Sharp Angle:  Defining the Potential for Conflict in Your Premise by Lydia Sharp 

• Publisher's Weekly:  A Conversation with Tomie dePaola

• Daily Writing Tips:  10 Pairs of Words and Their Useful Distinctions by Mark Nichol

• Gail Carson Levine:  Memorable MC (Main Character)

Here are some fun ways to keep track of your word counts:

• Sarah's Journal:  Stuff I've Learned:  Writing Log by Sarah Beth Durst

• Laini Taylor's Blog:  Word Count Calendar (of Cuteness)

• Justine Larbalestier:  Small Word Count Goals (& a way to use Scrivener to keep track)

Links of Interest to Writers

Here are 7 inspirational and informative articles and websites that will help you with your writing.

• Babbles from Scott Eagan:  Everything Needs A Purpose in Your Story

• Writer's Digest/Brian Klems: The Pros & Cons of Self Publishing (& Traditional Publishing) 

• A.Word.A.Day:  A word every day! Sign up for their daily email and increase your vocabulary.

• A Writer's Journey:  Micro Distractions While Writing by Nat Russo  - "Small distractions that pull you away from writing for short periods of time may improve your productivity."

• A Writer's Wings:  Some Things to Keep in Mind When Self Editing by Cynthia Dawn Griffin

• All Write - Fiction Advice:  Suspending Disbelief for Readers - Part 1 by AJ Humpage

• An Awfully Big Blog Adventure:  Good Advice I Can't Seem to Follow... by Tracy Alexander

Links of Interest to Writers

Are you a reading/writing addict? This will feed your need!

• QueryTracker:  Break It Up:  How To Reduce Reader Fatigue by Ash Krafton

• Mad Woman in The Forest:  Revision Roadmap by Laurie Halse Anderson

• A. Victoria Mixon:  7 Reasons Fiction Needs a Washing Machine

• Project Eve:  How to Stay Motivated...Even When It's Really, Really Hard by Rhonda Hale Warren

• All Write:  Does There Have to be a Moral to Every Story?

• HuffPost:  Everything You Thought You Knew About Creativity Is Wrong 

• Daily Writing Tips:  Lay vs. Lie:  What's so Hard? by Maeve Maddox

• An Awfully Big Blog Adventure:  Who Are You Today? by Penny Dolan (Showtime Author vs. Working Author)

Links of Interest to Writers

I love writing! Do you? There seem to be a lot of sevens in today's posting!

• Writer's Digest/Brian Klems:  The 7 Rules of Picking Names for Fictional Characters offered by Elizabeth Sims

• Writer UnBoxed:  The Creative Personality by Barbara O'Neal

• Guide to Literary Agents:  7 Things I've Learned So Far by M. M. Vaughan

• Socialpolitan:  7 Types of Narrative Conflict by Mark Nichol

• A Writer's Journey:  Poor Word Choice is Killing your Story by Nat Russo

• Ninie Hammon:  The Three Best Ways to Describe Your Characters

• Jamie Gold:  What Do Your Characters Falsely Believe?

Links of Interest to Writers

Here are some more great articles to inspire your writing!

• Tomasz Tunguz:  How to Take Exceptional Notes & Be Productive with Paper

• Mythic Scribes:  Is Plot or Character More Important? by K. M. Weiland

• Lynnette Lybelle:  Is Genre-Hopping for You?

• Write 4 Kids:  What Every Writer Hopes For

• Clear Writing with Mr. Clarity:  The Placement of Modifiers

• Galley Cat:  Artist Creates Gorgeous Story Structure Map by Jason Boog (Artist: Appylon)

• AbeBooks:  What Literary Character Are You? Take the Quiz. I'm Galadriel (played by Cate Blanchette in the movies!) from Lord of the Rings. I can live with that!

• Writers Digest:  Writing Fiction:  5 Tips to Get More Creative

Links of Interest to Writers

Here are some blog posts I found interesting on the Web today:

• Writer's Fun Zone:  How to Create Characters: 10 Ways to Create Deeper & Unforgettable Characters by Margaret Aslanis-Nystrom

• Writability:  How to Make the Most of Your Chapter Endings by Ava Jae

• Viva Scriva:  Facing Our Fears by Sabina I. Rascol

• Time to Write:  The Danger of Waiting for Your Muse Before You Start to Write by Jurgen Wolff

• Author, Jody Hedlund:  Blogging Changes (Observations about changes in blogging over the past 9 months.)

• AuthorCulture:  Word Choice by Lisa Lickel

• Babbles from Scott Eagan:  The Art of the Simultaneous Submission

• Courage to Create:  Stop Hesitating: Take a Step Forward (Even if you think you're not prepared) by Ollin Morales