Happy Friday everybody! It’s the first weekend of the new year, so let’s make it count. Here are the latest Five Links. 1. Let’s start with 9 Tips on How to Start a Story from the editors at Reedsy.com. 2. Writing for a living is everybody’s goal, right? Here is a piece on Paying Rent […]
Five Links Friday 12/16/16
Hold on, let me check the temperature…Yes. It is absolute zero outside. Don’t go out there today. Nope. Never. Instead, stay in, read these awesome links, and then spend the rest of the weekend writing yourself silly. 1. Let’s start out with an older post, but still a good one for this time of year: […]
The Key is to Bring Empathy to Your Characters
I’ve always said that it doesn’t matter how beautiful your prose is, how tight your plot is, or how detailed your setting is, if you can’t get a reader to care about your story. And for me as a reader, the most important thing a writer can do to make me care is to make […]
Five Links Friday 11/25/16
Hey, it’s Friday! And for a lot of us in the U.S. it’s also an extended weekend. So enjoy the time off, get some stuff done, and read these 5 links when you can. 1. Do you ever feel like it’s impossible to find balance between your writing and you day job, family and everything […]
Five Links Friday 11/4/16
Holy Moly, it’s the first Friday of November. For you NaNoWriMo-ers out there, you can’t go to bed tonight unless your word count is 6,668. So if you don’t hit all of these links today, I’ll understand 🙂 But for the rest of you out here, it’s time again for Five Links Friday! 1. In […]
The Brainstorming Rat Race and Ideas that Go Nowhere
More often than I’d like to admit, there have been plenty of nights where I looked through my works in process and just said, “Eh, let’s start something new.” Sadly, especially half a decade ago when I first started writing (geesh, I’m getting old), this would end up morphing into an entire night wasted in […]
Writing Resources: Scrivener
Regular readers of this site may know that I’ve been going back and forth between writing a new novel and working on (extremely painful) revisions of another. Part of the problem with the revisions is that I started the novel with very little sense of direction, so a lot of the characters still run together, […]
How I revise and what I still have left to do.
Editing sucks. Revising an novel is worse than hell. And I hate it. And I hate you. And I hate life. Those are just a few of the things you might hear writers say when they are experiencing those clean-up blues. But here’s a dirty little secret: It’s really not as bad as people make it […]
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