Link Feast, vol. 60

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Things I Forget to Remember: Writing a Novel Is an Act of Faith by Sarah Callender

Things I Forget to Remember: Writing Is an Act of Faith

On Writing

The Door by Elizabeth McCleary (a cool Flash Fiction story, less than 1000 words long)

The Door – Storytime Blog Hop

Did You Know That Writing Books Is Hard by Chuck Wendig

Did You Know That Writing Books Is Hard?

4 Challenges of Writing For a Modern Audience by K.M. Weiland

4 Challenges of Writing for a Modern Audience

12 Quotes on the Craft and Business of Writing From the 2019 Writer’s Digest Annual Conference by Robert Lee Brewer

12 Quotes on the Craft and Business of Writing From the 2019 Writer’s Digest Annual Conference

Resolutions Don’t Work. How to Set Goals and Follow Through by Elizabeth McCleary

Resolutions Don’t Work

How to Get Out of Writing Doldrums by Mathina Calliope

How to Get Out of the Writing Doldrums

6 Tips For Reading Like a Writer by Mark Beaver

6 Tips for Reading Like a Writer

5 Ways to Ensure Readers Don’t Abandon Your Book by H.R. D’Costa (about story stakes)

5 Ways to Ensure Readers Don’t Abandon Your Book

Tips For Writing a Great Love Story by Heather Webb 

Tips for Writing a Great Love Story 

(Important Notice: if you are writing a romance and don’t give your readers a HEA, your reviews will be shitty because you broke an essential promise of that genre. THAT is the difference between Romance and a Love Story, a HEA ending, Happy Ever After, or at least HFN, Happy For Now)

What Makes You Love Your Main Character by Julia Monroe Martin

What Makes You Love Your Main Character?

The Values of Good Fiction by Kathleen McCleary

The Values of Good Fiction

Persuation by Donald Maass (about moral antagonists)

Persuasion

The Wonders of Your Character’s World View by Jim Dempsey

The Wonders of your Character’s World View

Focus On the Heart of Writing by Tasha Seegmiller (and the heart is our characters)

Focusing on the Heart of Writing

Good Story Endings: Happy or Sad, or Something Else? By Vaughn Roycroft

Good Story Endings: Happy or Sad, or Something Else?

Writing Emotional Truth – What Gets Us There? By Bonnie Randall

http://blog.janicehardy.com/2019/07/writing-emotional-truthwhat-gets-us.html

Masterful Wordsmithing with Metaphor and Imagery by C.S. Lakin

Masterful Wordsmithing with Metaphor and Imagery

Give Your Reader an Experience by Kathryn Craft

Give Your Reader an Experience

Negotiating Social Priviledge as a Writer by Rheea Mukherjee

Negotiating Social Privilege as a Writer

The Editor’s Clinic: Take a Break by Dave King

The Editor’s Clinic: Take a Break

Get and Interpret a Reader’s “Thought Map” of Your Book by Dawn Field (lots of good editing tips and techniques in this post)

Getting — And Interpreting — A Reader’s “Thought Map” Of Your Book

How Hollywood is Rekindling the Rom Com – With the Help of Romance Novels by Maureen Lee Lenker

https://ew.com/books/2018/08/16/how-hollywood-is-rekindling-the-rom-com/

Anna Smith Spark Talks Grimdark In Her Fantasy AMA by Stubby the Rocket (how the misogyny in grimdark can be political and other topics)

Anna Smith Spark Talks Grimdark in Her r/Fantasy AMA

Trad Publiblishing, Self-publishing, Book Marketing, Pitching, & Making Our Stories the Product (not just our books)

Establishing a Long Term [Trad] Writing Career: Insight From Two Literary Agents by Sangeeta Mehta

How to Establish a Long-Term Writing Career: Insight From Two Literary Agents

Becoming a Rogue Planet (When You Lose Your Publisher) by Kathryn Magendie

Becoming a Rogue Planet (When You Lose Your Publisher)

Branding 101: Defining Our Brand by Jami Gold

Branding 101: Defining Our Brand

Pitching Our Story: Insights From Movie Trailers by Jami Gold 

Pitching Our Story: Insights from Movie Trailers

10 Things I Learned Indie Publishing My First Book by Tari Lynn Jewett

10 Things I Learned Indie-Publishing My First Book

Business Musings: The Decision Tree (Rethinking the Writing Business Part 8) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [if you haven’t read the previous parts of this series, I highly recommend you to do so]

Business Musings: The Decision Tree (Rethinking The Writing Business Part Eight)

Business Musings: Time Management Again (Rethinking the Writing Business Part 9) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Business Musings: Time Management Again (Rethinking The Writing Business Part Nine)

Deep Stuff

People Don’t Know Themselves Very Well by Adam Grant (others can see things about us more easily than we do)

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/people-don-t-actually-know-themselves-very-well

Good News at Last: The World Isn’t as Horrific as You Think by Hans Rosling 

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/good-news-at-last-the-world-isn-t-as-horrific-as-you-think

Opinion: What ‘Good’ Dads Get Away With by Darcy Lockman

The History of Boredom by Linda Rodriquez McRobbie

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-history-of-boredom-138176427/

(Curious fact: Word boredom didn’t even exist until 1852. Before that, the term used was the French word for boredom, ennui. Ennui was first used in the 1660s and nativized by 1758.)

Love isn’t what it was By Sophus Helle (Disney is subverting its own romantic ideals)

https://aeon.co/essays/how-disney-took-to-subverting-its-own-romantic-ideals

Fun Stuff

How to Sell Your Friends and Family on Genre Fiction by Drew Williams

How to Sell Your Friends & Family On Genre Fiction

Fall Movie Guide: 49 Horror, Scifi and Fantasy Movies to Look Out For by Germain Lussier (lots of trailers)

https://io9.gizmodo.com/fall-movie-guide-49-horror-sci-fi-and-fantasy-movies-1837185287

All the New and Returning Scifi, Fantasy and Superhero, and Otherwise Geeky TV Shows Coming This Fall by Cheryl Eddy and Beth Elderkin

https://io9.gizmodo.com/all-the-new-and-returning-sci-fi-fantasy-superhero-a-1837384823