Links of Interest to Writers

For your reading pleasure...

• Writer's Digest - Brian Klem's Blog: Important Writing Lessons From First-Time Novelists 

• DBW - Digital Book World:  6 Degrees of Agent Evolution by Jason Allen Ashlock

• Huffington Post Books:  Writing Tips:  How To Breathe New Life Into Your Short Stories

• Writers Helping Writers:  How to Cure a Cardboard Villain by Angela Ackerman

• Writer Unboxed:  The Power of Renewal a.k.a. Character Arc by Heather Webb

• The Blue Rose Girls:  Keeping Your Mouth Shut by Grace Lin

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Last chance to read about writing this year!

• The Creative Penn:  Create Something Together:  Artistic Collaboration In Action by Joanna Penn

• Teens Can Write, Too:  Writing An Antagonist by John Hansen

• The Blood Red Pencil:  Revision Is Half The Battle bu Diana Hurwitz

• Nathan Bransford:  Creative Fatigue

• Huffington Post Books:  Find Your Writer's Voice in 2014 by Theo Pauline Nestor

• Entrepreneur:  Forgetting Setting Goals, Focus on This Instead by James Clear

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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

Here's some great writing advice!

• Jane Friedman:  The Art and Business of Reader Engagement and Author Platform

• Ninie Hammon:  Ten Ways to Create Gut-Gnawing Suspense

• Writer's First Aid:  Talent, Passion, and Discipline by Kristi Holl

• Moody Writing:  The Logic of Illogical Characters

• Lauren Sapala:  5 Easy Ways to Make Writing a Habit

• Creative Writing with the Crimson League:  Creative Writing Reflection:  On Villains (well, Antagonists) and Vengeance by Victoria Grefer

Links of Interest to Writers

For those in the United States, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Here are a few articles to read while digesting all that food! (Those living outside the U.S. can just eat a lot of food and enjoy the articles without having to put up with all those family members.)

• The Business of Being an Author:  How Hard Will You Work to Fulfill Your Dream? by Marquita Herald

• The Narrative Breakdown (Podcast):  Storytelling in Front of a Live Audience with Melanie Hamlett

• The Write Conversation : Tips to Adjust Your Writing Schedule and Enjoy the Holidays 

• WUSF:  What Children's Authors Make of Common Core & Education Policy by Sammy Mack
• Book Riot:  Common Core:  What it Means for Fiction in Schools by Josh Corman

• Flavorwire:  The Greatest Monsters in Children's Literature by Alison Nastasi

• The New York Times Sunday Book Review:  100 Notable Books of 2013

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Here are some writing articles full of great advice!

• W.I.P It:  8 Benefits of Writing by Lynda R. Young

• Angela Booth's Writing Blog:  Flow:  The Ideal Writing Mind State

• From the Write Angle:  A Case for "Nicer" Villains by R. C. Lewis

• Babbles from Scott Eagan:  What Makes Your Story Stand Out?

• Jamie Gold:  Using Conflict to Understand Our Characters

• Judy Lee Dunn:  Can You Name 99 Things You Love in 10 Minutes?

• Writer's First Aid:  Thinking:  First Backward and Then Forward

Links of Interest to Writers

Study your reading to see if the writing works!

• How to Plan, Write, & Develop a Book:  Dialogue Dos & Don'ts:  Crafting Lively & Believable Back-and-Forth on the Pages of Your Book by Mary Carroll Moore

• Amanda Bumgarner:  Head Hopping:  What it Looks Like & Why You Shouldn't Do It

• The Write Practice:  Writer's Block? Try Getting Visual by Joe Bunting

• The Daring Novelist:  Story Game:  The Situation Worksheet by Camille LaQuire

• Mythic Scribes:  Case Study:  Using Villains to Shape Your Hero by Brian DeLeonard

• The New York Times:  Slaves of the Internet, Unite! by Tim Kreider

• Ink & Angst:  A NaNoWriMo Toolkit:  Practical Tip, Apps, & Playlists  (NaNoWriMo = National Novel Writing Month)

Links of Interest to Writers

Hope you find one of these articles helpful in motivating your writing!

• i09:  10 Ways to Make Everyone Root for Your Amoral Protagonist by Charlie Jane Anders

• The Atlantic:  The 8 Habits of Highly Successful Young-Adult Fiction Authors by Nolan Feeney

• dwiFilms:  How to Speed Read (YouTube)

• Project Eve:  Amateur Blogging:  Getting Started

• Live, Write, Thrive:  Use Camera Angles to Supercharge Your Novel by C. S. Laken

• YARN:  Commit to Your Writing Now...And Later.

• HootSource:  5 Authors Using Social Media to Reach Readers & Sell Books by Alyssa Kritsch

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Here's a dose of intelligence!

• Writing Forward:  Writing Tips for Creating a Complex Villain by Melissa Donovan

• Writer's Digest/Brian Klems:  How to Build Subplots From Multiple Points of View 

• SpiritAuthors:  Going Public - What All Authors Fear When Getting Read to Publish by Lynn Searfinn

• Publishers Weekley:  New Trends in YA: The Agent's Perspective by Sue Corbett

• LA Times:  Lois Duncan on Reaching a New Generation of Teen Readers by Elisabeth Donnelly

• The Writer:  Character Profile (Interview Your Character) by Patrick Scalis

• Susan Kaye Quinn:  Create a Five-Year Plan

Links of Interest to Writers

Take some time to read articles on craft and learn something you might not have known about writing and writers!

• Writer Unboxed:  On Discipline, Dedication, & Devotion by Robin LaFevers

• The American Writers Museum

• Huff Post Healthy Living:  Overcoming Fear in 8 Steps by Dr. Carmen Harra

• Huff Post The Third Metric:  9 Ways to Gain More Time by Bernadette Noll (I especially liked the suggestion of crossing something off your list that you haven't done but really doesn't need doing.)

• Publisher's Weekly: 11 Most Evil Characters in Books by Koren Zailckas

• Jennifer Crusie's Blog Argh Ink:  Goals & Stakes

• Laurie Halse Anderson: The Magic Word That Destroy's Writer's Block

• Angela Booth's Creativity Factory:  5 Easy Ways to Become More Creative Fast