Category Archives: Writing
Website update, and why do I have one anyway?
Yesterday, I gave my website a much-needed overhaul. There are still a few things I’d like to adjust (updating some links, changing some colors to green, testing the LiveJournal crossposter as soon as I hit publish on this post, etc.), … Continue reading
Links: Journalism and Agent Pay
Last week’s theme in reading was the death of journalism: How to Save the News and Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable. (I thought I got those links from Steve, but now I can’t find the original post, so who knows. … Continue reading
Links roundup: Promotion, ebooks, and more
Tomorrow’s C-U Writers Group meeting is about promotion, so that’s what starts off this set of links: Writing Excuses podcast: Basic marketing, branding, and websites (3 separate episodes) YA author Saundra Mitchell on Marketing Timelines (thanks to Kelly Swails for … Continue reading
Links roundup: QueryTest, JAKonrath’s giant ebook, tiny 24-room apartment, and more
Since I’m collecting writing links for my local group, I thought I’d share them here as well. May 5′s meeting is on pitching a novel, so let’s start with… Pitching/Queries: New query testing site (post your query, see how many … Continue reading
Audience development for aspiring writers
A recent blog post at Writer Unboxed talks about how audience development is an important step for authors – even writers who aren’t yet published. The author (Jane Friedman of Writer’s Digest) says writers (and aspiring writers) should: * Interact … Continue reading
Nanowrimo
I’m doing an unofficial Nanowrimo this year (I’m elizabeths over there). Since I’ve been rewriting last year’s Nano novel, I’ll continue with that. Turning a zeroth draft into a first draft takes me a lot longer than writing the zeroth … Continue reading
Weekly Summary July 22 (Retreat and Podcasts)
Back from a writer’s retreat with Merrie Haskell, Julie Winningham, and David Klecha, where we swam in the lake, played minigolf, and, yes, wrote. I wrote the story I’d developed a couple months ago (~2600 words; my short stories are … Continue reading
Links
Let’s Try It One More Time: A Tale of Three Best-Sellers — some examples of bestselling novels that underwent extensive revision: What impresses — and consoles me — about these over-the-top tales of revision behind successful writing is the commitment … Continue reading
Weekly Summaries March 18
Links: • I’m a fan of saving the environment, but doing without toilet paper is further than I want to go by a long shot. • What’s the next puzzle craze after sudoku? Article with sample puzzles. The nurikabe was … Continue reading
Weekly Summaries March 11
Warning: This post is all about me — no links this week. Sorry. (Go watch more hockey fights if you're bored.) Updated my exceedingly boring nonfiction site with some of the FrameMaker stuff I was playing around with recently. I … Continue reading
