Article Dumping: Writer's Block Edition

Excuse for dropping out for this long. I'm going to put my blog on hiatus again for the rest of the school year, so here's the rest of the links:

The Other Side of the Story: Should You Maintain the Same POV Distance Throughout the Novel?:

Rachelle Gardner: Blurb Etiquette:

Kristen Lamb: The Secret Recipe for Writing a Perfect Pitch:

The Write Practice: Should You Write Nonfiction or Fiction?:

Lifehack: Middle Finger to Productivity—Here’s How to Procrastinate Like a Boss:

Storyfix: Bold Storytelling Statements That Are Almost Always True:

Jennifer Represents...: On Twitter-Stalking, and New Adult:

Anne R. Allen: Gangs of New Media: Twitchforks, the Hive Mind, and “Social Lasers of Cruelty”:

Understand, school should come first. Good luck with the rest of the year.

Thanks.

Passive Productive: 5 Things You Absolutely Shouldn’t Do When You Achieve Something:

Catherine, Caffeinated: Social Media: Have You Got It All Wrong?:

A Newbie's Guide to Publishing: Blood Moon and Having Control:

Word For Teens: The giant post about new adult literature.:

I will take my knives to each of these when I have the time. It will be a pleasure.

*creepy grin*

Can't believe I'm still doing this, but it makes me feel like I'm doing something worthwhile. It'll just be a pain to compile into the blog.

Terribleminds: How to Maximize Your Word Count and Write More Every Day:

Jody Hedlund: Social Media for Writers: A Kool-Aid Drinking Cult?:

KBoards: How To Sell Loads of Books:

Wordplay: When Your Character Makes the Wrong Choice:

[I'm going to start marking articles that stand out with bold, to reduce my bolding work and to set out the fantastic articles from the great ones.]

I have a new article up on my blog site.

I've collected my best writing links from last week, most are discussions on diversity in literature rather than advice but I think they're worth a read.

edited 20th May '13 3:34:56 PM by Vyctorian

How to write kick-ass character descriptions.

I'm not sure whatever I'll go back to the weekly round-ups for a long time, but this is an interesting article on publishing.

Inmate Fights For His Right To Read Werewolf Erotica.

That's a phrase I will never hear again.

—cacklesnort—

I've read about that. One commenter said that it was all a waste of tax dollars and prisoners should be able to read what they want, regardless of artistic merit.

Ebooks Abroad

Why Being Gay in Rogue Legacy Means Nothing: an interesting article on Rogue Legacy, its purely cosmetic "gay" trait, and the reactions to it.

edited 20th Jul '13 4:22:58 PM by KillerClowns

Rapturous Research, an essay on a condition I personally know all too well.

The Art of Being Still

(Yeah, I'm doing an Archive Binge on the NYT's commentary pages on writing, but this and the above stood out.)

edited 23rd Jul '13 10:20:04 AM by KillerClowns

Swimming in a Sea of Shit: the Internet's War against Creatives. Not cheerful reading, I gotta say.

Has anyone done a website solely dedicated to not only gathering articles on writing, but providing detailed summaries?

I know a lot of blogs do article dumps, but I want to do really detailed summaries so people can find what they want and get things done fast instead of clicking through dozens of links with vague titles and descriptions, which has caused me a lot of pain.

edited 2nd Aug '13 10:52:13 AM by SnowyFoxes

In Defense of Arbitrary Diversity

Nice article

ARISE!

So You Want to be a Writer? That's Mistake #1: The title makes it sound unnecessarily hostile — it's really about making sure you know why you want to write.

Seriously, though, would appreciate others tossing interesting articles they find here from time to time. I tend only to read what I stumble upon wandering my usual progressive, tech, and gaming circles.

edited 29th Oct '13 3:43:45 PM by KillerClowns

^ I might start posting articles here, every once and a while again. I also have a twitter list of writers who mostly post articles I could post here, I'm pretty sure non-twitter users can view lists too so you don't even need a twitter yourself to benefit from it.

And here's the list: https://twitter.com/vyctorian/lists/writing-blogs-bloggers

I might create a Chuck-less list, I love his commentary but he does tend to tweet a lot of non-writing stuff in addition to articles.

edited 4th Feb '14 2:00:29 PM by Vyctorian