Time again for another Five Links Friday. Hope you had a great week, and will have an even better weekend. Enjoy! 1. Let’s begin with the end. Here is a look at good endings & what yours should include by Roz Morris at Writers Helping Writers. 2. Fantasy Faction has a really cool Worldbuilding Round […]
Five Links Friday 9/1/17
Hey, it’s long weekend for…to be honest, I don’t even know. But let’s celebrate anyway! Here are five links for ya. 1. Let’s start with a post by Rachelle M. N. Shaw at 10 Minute Novelists on How to Use Showing vs. Telling Effectively. 2. Adam Hughes at The Moonlighting Writer has a post with […]
When to let a project die (or at least take an extended vacation from it)
Ok, so we’ve all got those projects that give us trouble. Take me, for example. I have a novel I finished in the 2012 NaNoWriMo, that I’ve been “working on” ever since. I just can’t seem to get it right. I even pitched it at last year’s RMFW conference, knowing full well that it just […]
Five Links Friday 6/16/17
Another weekend is upon us, and that means it’s another Five Links Friday. Try to stay out of the heat and enjoy! 1. Let’s start with a post by Roland Yeomans on How to Write a Book Blurb. Good stuff to know whether you’re querying or self-publishing. 2. Here’s an inspirational post by Sara Letourneau […]
Building a Story From the Bottom Up
So maybe I’m a terrible person, but in the distant past I used to kind of (silently) make fun of those writers who would talk about getting so hung up on world-building that they haven’t even begun their book yet. I was like, What the Hell? World-building? How boring is that? Just shut up and […]
Worldbuilding things I hadn’t thought about before
I’m in the very early stages of planning a fantasy trilogy. It’s been running through my head for a while now, but life and other projects just keep getting in the way. (Note that I’m not complaining about that stuff. A writer’s life involves a constant juggling of priorities between the family, day job, and […]