Drummer Boy
This was a good reminder.
The last battle's curtains will open on stage!
Wednesday:
- The Blood-Red Pencil: 10 Steps to Writing (or not...)
: We writers can get so distracted.
- The Other Side of the Story: So Where Were We Again? Salvaging Half-Finished Manuscripts: How many do you have laying around?
- Courage 2 Create: 3 Helpful Tools For Writers Who Struggle With ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder): What an interesting condition.
- The Creative Penn: 7 Mistakes To Avoid When Writing Your Memoir: Interesting enough, a few other posts on memoirs popped up on my blogroll this one just happened to pop out.
- Don't pet me, I'm writing: What an 85-year-old food critic taught me about handling negative feedback: Not much to say here.
- YA Confidential: Let's Get Creepy: I'm not in this post, but I said a lot in the comments.
- Fiction Notes: What Kids are Reading 2012: Literary classes these days...
Monday:
- Cowbell: The Almost X-Rated Garage Sale: The red covers! THE RED COVERS!
- QueryTracker: Securing Online Reviews: Being mainstream is a plus here.
Tuesday:
- The Sharp Angle: One Reason Why I'll Never Quit My (Non-Writing) Job: Sometimes, that slice of life is worth it.
- Jami Gold: Paranormal Author:Using Google Search Terms for Fun and Education: I need to check out Moon Over Manifest soon.
- Veronica Roth: FAQs: Four and The Names We Choose: On the topic of name changes.
Drummer Boy
Would you mind giving a more informative summary/ overview of the articles you link to?
The last battle's curtains will open on stage!
Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer
@Sharp: I hear that's how M.T. Anderson writes all the background conversations in his novels.
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful
It's something I'm trying to attempt more.
Eavesdropping, I mean.
Experiencing more of life, you know?
With six billion people around, there is sure a lot of life going around.
Thank God for the monkeysphere, or one could go insane or succumb into a blubbering mess.
edited 20th Mar '12 9:40:03 PM by chihuahua0
ಠ_ృ You called?
That would be great.
Why are our conversations always knee-deep in Republican politics and Internet gifs?
I'll consider it. Unfortunately, I'm often in a rush when I post these, reading deeply the ones that catch my attention and skimming the rest, so the comments sometimes come out more like mush than anything.
Wednesday:
- The Writers Alley: 3 Unique Ways to Incorporate Holidays Into a Novel: Deadlines, plot devices, and...costumes?
- The Character Therapist: Some Google Alert Fun: Perhaps this can be an inspirational tool?
- Bryan Thomas Schmidt: Write Top: 5 Tricks To Adapting a Well-Known Story for Fiction: The Exodus...In Space!
- YA Confidential: Teen Critique: Submit Your First Page!: I was about to not post this, but I think some people might find this useful.
edited 21st Mar '12 3:27:30 PM by chihuahua0
Drummer Boy
Lovely. And they didn't specify if they wanted it as an attachment, in the body of the email, or anything.
The last battle's curtains will open on stage!
ಠ_ృ You called?
Caaaaalm down, Snowy. Someone already asked about that in the comments.
Why are our conversations always knee-deep in Republican politics and Internet gifs?
And the deadline's next Tuesday, so you have plenty of time to ponder whether you want to submit the excerpt you just posted a few hours ago.
Thursday:
- Time to Write: The 3 elements that made "Hunger Games" such a successful book series: An appealing concept, good writing, and clever marketing.
- The Other Side of the Story: Going All the Way: Should You Write the Whole Trilogy Before You Query?: On one hand, you wouldn't be wasting time on a series that won't sell. On the other hand, you would wish you could make changes to the first two books after the fact.
New week!
Monday:
- Time to Write: 52 Tips to Writing Success - 1: clear your screen!: I just found out F11 is fullscreen on Chrome!
- The Creative Penn: Writing Tips: Guns, Bullets And Shooting With J. Daniel Sawyer: Hey! That could discharge!
- Writability: How (Not) to Be a Successful Blogger: Unless you have an one-eyed hamster.
- Courage 2 Create: I Was Discriminated Against. Now What?: Homophobia in the blogosphere is bad.
Tuesday:
- YA Highway: Hey, You Know Who That Looks Like?: White teen models that look like celebrates!
- Magical Words: The Seven Deadly Sins: More of a springboard than anything.
- Lynnette Labelle: Agents Want to Know – Part 2: What's next, what's else, and where it's going.
Wednesday:
- The Creative Penn: How To Get Book Reviews Without Spending (Too Much) Money: With a list of book reviewers, obviously.
- The Sharp Angle: Making a Depressing Character Likeable: A touch of humor or an enduring quality can go a long way.
- Jeff Goins Writer: The Best Way to Begin a Writing Career: “Write for magazines.”
- The Write Practice: 7 Reasons Your Muse Isn’t Talking to You: I should try the practice—soon.
- Wizzley: How to Take Notes in the Shower: I need to get one of those pens.
- Wizzley: How to Take Notes in the Shower
- Advanced Fiction Writing: Goals and Motivations in Fiction Writing: Values, ambitions, and goals.
- Veronica Roth: The Giveaway of Many 4s!: Not her Four. Books of fours.
edited 28th Mar '12 3:00:11 PM by chihuahua0
Wednesday:
- Romance University: Keep ‘Em Hooked by Laura Griffin: Avoid threepeats, and use punch words.
- Jami Gold, Paranormal Author: Exploiting Our Brand: Is There a “Right” Way?: The allure of an existing story is too great for a money-hungry adaptor.
Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer
^ @RU: If you want to know how not to apply this advice, read Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. It follows it perfectly, not just chapter by chapter, but event by event, and to a certain degree even sentence by sentence. This results in incredibly stilted constructions, especially when it's used in dialogue. (Nobody—nobody—talks like the characters in that book do.)
@Paranormal: I like the article, but I dislike the use of the term "brand." What the author seems to be referring to is reputation—not quite the same thing.
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful
Apparition in the Woods
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Basically, those things.
As to the previous grouping of articles, few were telling me anything that I didn't already know, although I do think that more people should listen to Goins' point about writing for small publications. Maybe it's indicative of a certain repressed conservative attitude I have toward the art of writing—a conservatism that seems entirely peculiar to that branch of my life, and even then is more Beats than Burke—but that's a tried-and-rue tradition, and one that's wonderful at separating the wheat from the chaff.
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.
Monday:
- The Other Side of the Story: What'cha Doing? Ways to be a More Productive Writer, Part 1: Find a time and place and carve it out for writing.
- Writability: How to Make Your Readers Believe Anything: Set the rules...and follow them.
- Cynsations: Guest Post: Greg Leitich Smith on How to Plan a Book Launch (Part One) A great post on how one author set up an event in a bookstore. With dino cookies!
- Goins Writer: How to Be a Leader in an Age of Information Overload: Become a thought leader.
- A. Victoria Mixon, Editor: 3 Things to Know About Exposition & Telling: Exposition is telling, be careful with anti-rules, and even money-addled ideas can sneak into the publishing houses.
edited 2nd Apr '12 7:08:15 PM by chihuahua0
Apparition in the Woods
That last one. She mentioned two authors that I absolutely love as personal favourites. * She also pointed out elsewhere that genres are nonsense. I must follow her.
edited 3rd Apr '12 5:49:17 AM by JHM
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.
Tuesday:
- Don't pet me, I'm writing: Real authors probably have a better system for this: Do other authors have their roommates name their characters?
- MS Word Trick: Combining Changes and Comments: With an end section saying the benefits of multiple beta readers.
- Storyfix: What I Just Learned from a Room Full of Romance Writer: They're killer-smart, and love their genre. No pun intended.
edited 4th Apr '12 2:32:07 PM by chihuahua0
Wednesday:
- Romance University: Five Sex Thrills No One Talks About with Ruth Harris:: The sixth is his feminine side.
- Superhero Nation: Show, Don’t Tell: How Much of Your Story Is Implied?: The example has tons of subtext packed into sixty-four words.
- The Other Side of the Story: Seems So: Are Your Characters Making Misleading Assumptions?: Look out for that "looked".
Tuesday: