Links of Interest to Writers

Articles to help your writing soar!

• Bustle:  Here's the Scientific Reason Why You Get Lost in a Book by Caitlin White @caitforestell

• Mashable:  9 Writers on the Inspiring Books That Shaped Them by Molly Horan @mashable

• QueryTracker:  How to Survive Writing Through the Holiday Season by Stina Lindenblatt @StinaLL @QueryTracker

• Write to Done:  7 Ways to Keep Writing When You Feel Like Giving Up by Alison Breen @Alisontbreen @WritetoDone

• Jody Hedlund:  How to Make Your Book Play Out Like a Movie @JodyHedlund

Links of Interest to Writers

Looking for a bit of writing inspiration?

• Creative Writing Video Tutorials for the Multimedia Age:  Master Point of View by Cy Porter

• YA Muses:  Mental Revision Tools by Brett Ballou @BretBallou  @kalongshore @YAMuses

• Nillu Nasser Stelter, Fiction & Freelance Writer:  Owning Your Choices in Story-Telling and in Life @nzstelter

• Coffitivity:  If you find you are more creative in a coffee shop, Coffitivity will give you the coffee shop sounds without the high price of the coffee. "A gentle murmur to get the day started." @Coffitivity

• The Book Designer:  5 Things You Should Know About Working With Beta Readers by Corina Koch MacLeod @CKmacleodwriter and Carla Douglas @CarlaJDouglas @byondpapr; blog by @JFbookman

• Project Eve:  Combating Writer's Block:  Get Your Content Flowing Again by Bola Olonisakin @ProjectEve

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Here's some reading to inspire your writing!

• *Thup:  Memorable Characters by Erin Brown Conroy (Ideas to make your characters shine.)

• Men With Pens:  The Real Reason Why You Can't Write by Esther Litchfield-Fink

• Get Me Writing:  How to Achieve Effective Social Media Promotion for your Ebook by Matt Roberts 

• Novel Matters:  What Do Productive Writers Do To Meet Deadlines? by Latayne C. Scott

• Writer's Digest/Brian Klem's Blog:  How To Create An Antihero That Readers Love by Jessica Page Morrell

• Marcy Kennedy:  How is First POV Different? 

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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

Here's some great reading on writing!

• The Blood Red Pencil:  When Your Story Takes a Vacation - 5 Ways to Cope by Shon Bacon

• Writers Helping Writers:  Creative Book Launches That Command Attention

• The Character Therapist:  Time, Talent, & Treasure:  What It Reveals About Your Character

• Babbles from Scott Eagan:  Does Your Dialogue Match Your Character?

• The Virtual Author:  10 Tips for Authors. Getting The Most Value From Beta Readers

• Author, Jody Hedlund:  Author Marketing:  Having Multiple Strategies

Links of Interest to Writers

Even if you're not participating in NaNoWriMo, you can still ride the energy and write as much as you can!

• Project Eve:  10 Tips to How to Stop Procrastinating by Danielle Boulton

• K. M. Weiland:  3 Signs You Should Give Up on Your Story

• Stavro Shalvatzis:  Positive & Negative Story Space

• QueryTracker:  Book Blogging for Fun & Profit  by Sarah Pinneo

• Brain Pickings:  20-Year-Old Hunter S. Thompson's Superb Advice on How to Find Your Purpose and Live a Meaningful Life by Maria Popova

• PUB(lishing) Crawl:  Simple Tricks to Unstick Your Story: The Domino Effect by Susan Dennard

• The Other Side of the Story:  Give It a Rest - Poetic Pauses in your Writing by Robyn Hood Black

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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)

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The writing part is the fun part - the revision, not so much! Maybe these articles will help ease the pain.

• Mystery Writing is Murder:  Novel Revision: Twenty-page Sessions by Jack Smith

• Positive Writer:  Are You Unwittingly Sabotaging Yourself by talking About Your Writing? by Ali Luke

• Novel Matters:  Protecting the Quiet by Kathleen Popa

• Shelli Johnson:  My Favorite Writing Advice - Make a Writer's Contract

• Write to Done:  This is What Blocks Your Writing (And How to Bust Through)

• MiG Writers:  My Love-Hate (Ok, Mostly Hate) Relationship with Rejections, Plus What I've learned Along the Way by Debbie Ridpath Ohi

• LucReid.com:  Tools for Naming Characters

• The Writer's Alley:  How to Write a Novel While Standing on Your Head Backwards, Chewing Gum, and Texting at the Same Time by Krista Phillips

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