Link Feast vol. 55

 

If You Have Time For Only One Thing

 

Creating Your Own Personal Commandments (Plus, I’m Sharing Mine!) by Roni Loren

https://roniloren.com/blog/2019/2/5/making-your-own-personal-commandments

 

And a bonus, since this is creating the commandments for your writing life

 

A Writer’s Manifesto by Julie Duffy

https://writerunboxed.com/2019/02/04/a-writers-manifesto/

 

On Writing

 

Business Musings: Priorities by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (seriously, read this post. Majorly important topic. And relates to the 2 above must read posts….)

https://kriswrites.com/2019/02/27/business-musings-priorities/

 

Creativity: 3 Ways to Cultivate Discipline in Your Writing Life by Nathan Wade

https://www.thecreativepenn.com/2019/03/01/creativity-3-ways-to-cultivate-discipline-in-your-writing-life/

 

Creativity, Symbolism and Writing With the Tarot With Caroline Donahue by Joanna Penn

Creativity, Symbolism And Writing With The Tarot With Caroline Donahue

 

Staying Interested In Your Work by Chris Winkle

https://mythcreants.com/blog/staying-interested-in-your-work/

 

Getting Unstuck and Avoiding Writer’s Block by Tiffany Yates-Martin

Getting Unstuck and Avoiding Writer’s Block

 

Mining Reader Reviews For Story Gold by Nancy Johnson (every 1 star review is a failed reader expectation)

Mining Reader Reviews for Story Gold

 

Do You Have a Story Concept, or Just a Cool Idea? by Cathy Yardley

Do You Have a Story Concept, or Just a Cool Idea?

 

Story Tropes: How Do We Twist the Cliche by Jami Gold

Story Tropes: How Do We Twist a Cliché?

 

The Dual Plot Structure That Makes Stories a Success by Chris Winkle

https://mythcreants.com/blog/the-dual-plot-structure-that-makes-stories-a-success/

 

Six Stories That Covered Up Major Plot Holes by Oren Ashkenazi

https://mythcreants.com/blog/six-stories-that-covered-up-major-plot-holes/

 

The Ordinary World: How Much and How Ordinary? by Donald Maass

https://writerunboxed.com/2019/02/06/the-ordinary-world-how-much-and-how-ordinary/

 

How to Make Dominant Female Characters Like-Able by Lisa Hall-Wilson

How To Make Dominant Female Characters Like-Able

 

Jaime Lannister and Sympathetic Monsters: A Look At a Master by Dave King

https://writerunboxed.com/2016/06/21/jaime-lannister-and-sympathetic-monsters-a-look-at-a-master/

 

Writing What You Don’t Believe by David Corbett

Writing What You Don’t Believe

 

What’s the Matter With Superheroes: The Villain Problem by Matt Bird

http://www.secretsofstory.com/2015/05/whats-matter-with-superheroes-part-3.html

 

How to Realistically Depict Evil by Oren Ashkenazi

How to Realistically Depict Evil

 

Making Sympathetic Antagonists and Why Thanos Wasn’t One by Mira Singer

https://mythcreants.com/blog/making-sympathetic-antagonists-and-why-thanos-wasnt-one/

 

How to Raise the Stakes in a Novel by Nathan Bransford

How to raise the stakes in a novel

 

7 Ways to Bring Characters Together by Chris Winkle

Seven Ways to Bring Characters Together

 

Constructing a Compelling Romance by Chris Winkle

Constructing a Compelling Romance

 

Five Characters Who Got Too Powerful by Oren Ashkenazi (how to deal with the power creep, especially relevant for book series)

https://mythcreants.com/blog/five-characters-that-are-too-powerful/

 

Making a Case For Poetry (And For Pillows, Lampposts and Subway Seats That Speak) by Sarah Callender

Making the Case for Poetry (and for Pillows, Lampposts, and Subways Seats that Speak)

 

Five Tips For Telling Stories of Resistance by Oren Ashkenazi

https://mythcreants.com/blog/five-tips-for-telling-stories-of-resistance/

 

Five Reasons to Not Write a Persecution Flip Story by Dave Lerner

https://mythcreants.com/blog/five-reasons-not-to-write-a-persecution-flip-story/

 

A Quiet Hero’s Journey: Processing Trauma in Fantasy by Leah Schnelbach

A Quiet Hero’s Journey: Processing Trauma in Fantasy

 

5 Sci-fi, Fantasy and Dystopian Tests That Aren’t What They Seem by Stubby the Rocket

https://www.tor.com/2019/02/05/book-list-tests-sci-fi-fantasy-speculative-fiction/

 

Holidays in Hell and Other Delights: A Worldbuilding Workshop by Holly Lisle (how to create unique holidays for your stories)

https://hollylisle.com/my-articles/writing-workshops/holidays-in-hell-and-other-delights-a-worldbuilding-workshop/

 

Fudging History: Is It Ever OK? By Juliet Marillier

Fudging History: Is It Ever OK?

 

Blind Spots and Obsessions in Historical Fiction: What Were They Thinking? By Dave King

Blind Spots and Obsessions in Historical Fiction: What Were They Thinking?

 

The Editor’s Clinic: Brave New World by Dave King

The Editor’s Clinic: Brave New World

 

How Writing Short Stories Can Help You Hone Your Novel-Writing Skills by Julie Duffy

Short Training for Your Long Game: How Writing Short Stories Can Help You Hone Your Novel-Writing Skills

 

Outline a Short Story in Seven Steps by Chris Winkle

https://mythcreants.com/blog/outline-a-short-story-in-seven-steps/

 

Publishing Gossip & Having a Long Term Writing Career

 

Business Musings: Ghostwriting, Plagiarism and the Latest Scandal by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

https://kriswrites.com/2019/02/20/business-musings-ghostwriting-plagiarism-and-the-latest-scandal/

 

Business Musings: Getting to the Stories You Love by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

https://kriswrites.com/2018/11/07/business-musings-getting-to-the-stories-you-love/

 

And if you haven’t yet read the 3 first articles linked to in this post, I highly recommend that you do so when you have a free moment. They cover topics crucial to sustaining a long term writing career.

 

Finding Your Perfect Niche in Fiction by Edwin McRae (suitable especially for self-publishing authors but useful for anyone who ponders which genre story to tackle first, or considers a genre change)

Finding Your Perfect Niche In Fiction

 

Book Marketing, Blogging & Social Media

 

How Do You Find New Readers by Tim Grahl

https://booklaunch.com/how-do-you-find-new-readers/

 

The Author’s Guide to Tribes by Tim Grahl

The Author’s Guide to Tribes

 

How to Write a Blog: 10 Tips For Writing Strong Web Content by Anne R. Allen

https://annerallen.com/2019/03/how-to-write-web-content/

 

Should You Have a Webpage by Ilona Andrews (if you intend to blog and share your writing journey before getting published, the answer is yes)

http://www.ilona-andrews.com/should-you-have-a-webpage/

 

10 Reasons to Start an Author Blog: And Why It Is Easier Than You Think by Anne R. Allen

https://annerallen.com/2017/08/10-reasons-author-blog/

 

How to Use Your Book Cover to Sell More Books by A.D. Starrling

How To Use Your Book Cover To Sell More Books

 

Everything You Need to Know About Pinterest SEO by Cathrin Manning

http://thecontentbug.com/2017/07/25/pinterest-seo/

 

How to Crush Tailwind (App) for Pinterest: Ultimate Guide by Louise Myers

https://louisem.com/264209/tailwind-pinterest

 

(Tailwind is an analytics & Pin scheduling tool, kind of like Hootsuite for Twitter. I started using this one and am really loving it. You can schedule 100 Pins for free, after that it costs 15$/month)

 

Deep Stuff

 

What Marie Kondo Says About Our New Ear of Self-Help by Claire Turrell (each decade has it’s own guru who catches the zeitgeist of that era, and Marie Kondo is it for 2010s)

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190222-what-marie-kondo-says-about-our-new-era-of-self-help

 

Introverted? Here Are the Jobs For You by Nick Clayton (really fascinating stories)

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160919-hate-people-here-are-the-jobs-for-you

 

The Secrets of the World’s Greatest Art Thief by Michael Finkel

https://www.gq.com/story/secrets-of-the-worlds-greatest-art-thief

 

21 Women Get Brutally Real About What Men Need to Know About Raising Daughters by Mike Spohr

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mikespohr/21-women-get-brutally-real-about-what-men-need-to-know

 

Teenagers and Sex in Books by Ilona Andrews

Teenagers and Sex in Books

 

Fun Stuff

 

What’s the Best April Fool’s Prank You’ve Ever Pulled Off by Krista Torres (there’s some gold in the comments)

https://www.buzzfeed.com/kristatorres/whats-the-best-april-fools-prank-youve-ever-pulled-off

 

39 Amazing New Scifi and Fantasy Books to Check Out in March by Cheryl Eddy

https://io9.gizmodo.com/39-amazing-new-sci-fi-and-fantasy-books-to-check-out-in-1832819961

 

Five Genre Bending Young Adult Books by Astrid Scholte

https://www.tor.com/2019/02/27/five-genre-bending-young-adult-books/

 

Thirty Erotic Novels That Are Actually Erotic by Suleikha Snyder

https://frolic.media/thirty-erotic-novels-that-are-actually-erotic/

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