Wednesday:
- Help! I Need a Publisher! My work here is done - after a free book giveaway
: A farewell post from a blogger whose articles has graced the round-ups more than once.
- How to Write Shop: Step by Step Guide to Building an Ebook with Calibre
: More of a practical self-publishing guide.
- Terribleminds: The Death of Genre: Drifting Toward a Non-Genre Future
: Long live the "dinosaur/noir/bioethics" book!
Wut.
I actually clicked that post on my RSS, but I only scanned it the first time. Why don't you agree with it?
It makes sense. Reader peeves can impede our enjoyment, and there are plenty of exceptions. But maybe there should be a little space for peeves, especially when there's a trend?
Thursday:
- Don't pet me, I'm writing: On struggles, sacrifice, and drinking wine while being groped
: Bread, eggs, breaded eggs drinking wine while being groped...
- Seeking the Write Life: Someone Give Me Permission...Please?
: To suck, she means.
- Collective Inkwell: The ForNevermore Facelift
: Get the free YA e-book soon!
- Let's Write a Short Story: How to Write a Short Story: Should You Focus on a Mood or Event?
: I'm writing an event-type story, but maybe I should put in more mood if I have the space.
I've never understood that attitude. It's much more likely that I'd like a work I read that features some pet peeve of mine in spite of the pet peeve then it is that I actually liked the pet peeve itself - and thus, by definition, I liked it less then I would have the "safer" choice.
For instance, I don't particularly care for books written in present tense. Nonetheless, I'm a huge fan of Charles Stross, who writes exclusively in present tense. That doesn't mean that I like present tense in his books, though - rather, it means that I like enough other elements of his style that they outweigh the pet peeve. If I encountered some author whose works were written exactly like those of Charles Stross, except that they were written in past tense, I'd unquestionably prefer him or her.
edited 6th Sep '12 4:06:54 PM by nrjxll
http://www.copyblogger.com/eminem
: Very enlightening.
edited 9th Sep '12 8:45:01 AM by Vyctorian
Rarely active, try DA/Tumblr Avatar by pippanaffie.deviantart.comMonday:
- Anne R. Allen's Blog: How to Write an Author Bio When You Don't Feel Like an Author…Yet
: This is from Sunday, but this post begs to be bookmarked.
- Writing Fire: Why Punctuation Really Does Matter
: A speech by a teenage storyteller.
- [Insert Title]: [Rant] Don't Judge a Book by Its...
: I share many of the opinions here.
- Courage 2 Create: Refresh And Reboot Yourself In 12 Easy Steps
: One of the funniest blog posts I've ever read. Tots!
- Write it Sideway: How to Meet Your Writing Deadlines (Every Time)
: First of all, procrastinate in advance.
Tuesday:
- Time to Write: Marketing Your Writing: the mantra that will bring you success (8 of 10)
: Write like an artist, market like a businessperson.
- Terribleminds: 25 of My Personal Rules for Writing and Telling Stories
: Another 25-item list.
- Novel Rocket: How to Get Book Endorsements
: Unless you want Stephen King's it's not terribly hard.
- Jody Hedlund: One Way to Shrink Our Problems
: Think about someone else's.
- Let thoughts steep longer: When Fiction Becomes Soapboxing
: Slightly inspired by one of my posts.
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Fixed.
edited 12th Sep '12 7:04:17 PM by chihuahua0
Wednesday:
- Should you write for trends? Should you write only what's popular? YA Indie: Should you write for trends? Should you write only what's popular?
: Go ahead. Maybe.
- Copyblogger: Need More Links and Social Shares? Try Making More Enemies
: Linking this because this is sort of what I'm doing right now.
- QueryTracker: Using Personal Issues to Enhance Fiction
: Using Thematic Apperception Tests as an example.
edited 12th Sep '12 6:45:14 PM by chihuahua0
Thursday:
- J. Keller Ford ~ YA Fantasy Author: catchy, double-meaning blog titles: are they harmful or helpful to your blog?
: Double entendres might attract unwanted searchers.
- Don't pet me, I'm writing: Is that an eggplant in your pants, or are you happy to see me?
: First impressions matter both with languages and with novels.
- The Renegade Writer: Articles You Wouldn't Take Home to Mother: How to Write About Embarrassing Topics
: I'm writing about nutrition! Not...never mind.
edited 13th Sep '12 3:42:59 PM by chihuahua0
It's.
A.
New.
Week!
-kick-
Monday:
- The Character Therapist: 3 Common Misconceptions About Eating Disorders
: More enlightening than I thought it would be.
- The Write Practice: Enrich Your Writing By Keeping It Simple
: Beige prose is sometimes better.
- Will Write For Cookies: A Beneficial Misunderstanding
: Bring on the dramatic irony!
- Kristin Lamb: Black Swan–The Trick to Inner and Outer Demons
: Proxy characters.
By the way, what do you think of this short piece?
edited 17th Sep '12 6:00:03 PM by chihuahua0
I didn't hide the gun, instead holding it out for the town to see, react to, and pick up the phone to call the police to take me away before I could make the worst decision of my life. I think this sentence could be split and add the second half to the following sentence. Also a bit more emotion would be nice. That wouldn't happen. No one cared except me and who I was going to meet.
At the scrapyard, I opened the unlocked gate and entered, letting the metal creak. My shoes made prints in the dirt. Why is this here? The metal piles laid everywhere. They were the perfect seers for the body I was going to leave behind. ??? Also I'd combine the two sentences together.
I stepped into the center of the yard and looked right ahead. She stood across from me, gun in hand also, but she held it at me, smiling.
"I thought you wouldn't come," she said.
"I keep my promises." I said.
"If that was the case, we wouldn't be here. We would be...together." I'd use a dash not an ellipsis
She gave me the old wink and fired.
I fired too.
Blood painted the ground.
The above is my thoughts and the below is my rewrite of what you wrote. (I just wanted to tinker around and see how I would reword it.)
I didn't hide the gun, instead holding it out for the town to see, to react to. I wanted someone to call the police to take me away before I could do anything foolish, but that wouldn't happen. No one cared except me and the other attendee.
At the scrapyard, I opened the unlocked gate and entered, letting the metal creak. The metal piles scattered about made it the perfect spot to hide a body.
I stepped into the center of the yard and looked right ahead. She stood across from me, gun in hand also, but she held it at me, smiling.
"I thought you wouldn't come," she said.
"I keep my promises." I said.
"If that was the case, we wouldn't be here. We would be — together."
She gave me the old wink and fired.
I fired too.
Blood painted the ground.
edited 17th Sep '12 9:14:37 PM by EldritchBlueRose
Has ADD, plays World of Tanks, thinks up crazy ideas like children making spaceships for Hitler. Occasionally writes them down.
Thanks for the feedback.
However, keep in mind that the piece is purposely binge and lacking of internal thoughts. That was the point of the prompt, and if I expand on that piece, I'll keep the same style while playing around with lyrical sentence structure and subtext.
Maybe further revising can bring emotions to the emptiness.
edited 17th Sep '12 9:45:15 PM by chihuahua0
Tuesday:
- Terribleminds: Ask a Writer: Building a Better Character
: A+B=C.
- Mystery Writing is Murder: Overcoming Writing Challenges: Guest post by Anne Trager
: Said challenge is translating from French.
- Jody Hedlund: When Should a Writer Stop Marketing a Book?
: Never.
- Roni Loren: Facebook vs. Twitter: Where The Readers Are
: Two different crowds.
I've made my comment there. Enjoy.
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.
I think that's one area in which I disagree: While I think that barebones writing can be extremely effective, I think that people use it to create artificial depth in the same way that people accuse unnecessarily flowery writers of doing. Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it is not wit.

Tuesday: