Playing on the Zune: Waking the Demon by Bullet for My Valentine
Social Media and Author Websites
Are You’re a Blogging Warrior or Wimp? by Stanford on Pushing Social
Social Media: An Introvert’s Secret Weapon by Jami Gold
Do the Wrong Thing: The Benefits of Writing Unconventional Headlines, guest post by Ollin Morales on Write to Done
WANA Commons – Beautiful Blog Images Without the Worry by Kristen Lamb
On the Craft
Creativity Under Pressure: How to Write Your Way Through Storms by August McLaughlin
High Concept Plots – What Are They and Why Do I Care? by Sally Apokedak on Novel Rocket
How Long Should It Be? by Arthur Plotnik on QueryTracker.net
In the Beginning: Which Type of Opening Works Best? by Janice Hardy
Why Counting Words May be Hazardous to Your Health by C.S. Lakin on Live Write Thrive
Finding Strong Metaphors by Linda Gray on Write of Passage
5 Reasons to Write Your Scenes in Order (and 3 Not to) by K.M. Weiland on Wordplay
Writing Lessons Learned from 50 SHADES OF GREY by Julie Musil
Fridays with Agent Kristin: Episode 8 – Three Reasons Why Prologues Don’t Work, a vlog by Kristen Nelson on Pub Rants
Forget He Said, She Said – Three Easy Tricks for Better Dialogue, guest post by Tiffany Reisz on The Other Side of the Story with Janice Hardy
The Good Seed IV by Donald Maas on Writer Unboxed
Writerly Inspiration
Perseverance – Writing Lessons from the Olympics by Julie Eshbaugh on Pub(lishing) Crawl
Four Ways to Untangle Your Writing Life by Karen Jordan on the Wordserve Water Cooler blog
On Editing, Critiquing, Querying, Publishing and more…
5 Tips for Making a Living as a Writer by Shawn Smucker on Rachelle Gardner’s blog
How to Choose an Excerpt to Showcase Your Novel by Roz Morris on Nail Your Novel
After the First Draft: Part 2 by Mooderino on Moody Writing
The Top Ten Query Mistakes by Rachelle Gardner
Remembering Gore Vidal: 10 Quotes on Writing by Zachary Petit on Writer’s Digest
Self-Editing for Self-Published Fiction by Randy Ingermanson on Advanced Fiction Writing
Critique Partners vs. Beta Readers by Tina Moss
The New Publishing Paradigm, Part One: It’s Not About eBook vs. Print by Jami Gold
Publishing Perils – Making the Choice, Part 5 by Susan Spann on Writers in the Storm blog
Other Round-Ups
Stina Lindenblatt’s Cool Links Friday
Roni Loren’s Fill-Me-In Friday
Elizabeth S. Craig’s Twitterific (compilation of all the writing links she’s shared this week – updated on Sundays)
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Happy Reading and Writing, everyone!!!
Melinda
