Hey! We’re back for Five Links Friday. I took a little time off to re-calibrate life, but everything is back up and running. Here are Five Links for you to enjoy over the long weekend. 1. Let’s start with some advice on fixing plot holes from April Davila: Hang a Lantern on Your Plot Problems. […]
Five Links Friday 11/9/18
Hey, we’re back with another edition of Five Links Friday. I kind of forgot to put any new content on the blog between this week and last week, so thanks for returning 🙂 Enjoy the links, and enjoy the weekend! 1. Since I’m working on a fantasy trilogy, I found this article on How to […]
Five Links Friday 9/21/18
Crazy week, as I got hit with the double whammy of strep throat and a sinus infection. Also lost my voice for about four days. I’ll tell you this: Yelling at four kids when you can barely talk and it hurts to breathe is not a thing I recommend. Oh well. Got some antibiotics, and […]
Five Links Friday 6/29/18
Hey, it’s they final Friday in June, and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little sad that summer is over half over. But there’s still time to reach the summer goals, right? 1. Let’s start with an interesting post on from the Occupation Thesaurus at Writers Helping Writers. It’s a look at […]
Does it make more financial sense to self-publish?
Welcome to 2018. I hope you’re all having a great one. I wanted to start of this post by addressing a somewhat common theme among certain writing communities. And that is that authors who write commercial fiction are “only in it for the money” and are therefore bad people since “writing for money” is bad. […]
Five Links Friday 11/24/17
Hey, it’s Friday night on the day after Thanksgiving, but it’s never too late for Five Links Friday. Enjoy! 1. Let’s start off this week with an older, yet awesome post by Janice Hardy on The Freedom of Placeholder Words in First Drafts. 2. Here’s an inspiring post by Denise Jaden at JaneFriedman’s blog with […]
1 in 20,000 (but 1 is all it takes)
I was looking over some past tweets of one of the literary agents I follow on Twitter and she mentioned that she’s received over 20,000 queries so far this year. 20,000. And it’s only July. So once I read that, a whole group of thoughts and emotions popped into my head. The first was: “Holy […]
Podcast Episode 38 – What to Avoid in a Query
In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott look at a few of the things agents and editors do not want to see in your query letter and synopsis. Relevant links: QueryTracker.net, Writer’s Digest, Holy Fudgesicles Click the link below to stream the episode. Also available at iTunes, Soundcloud, RSS and […]
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