Link Feast vol 66. – The Best Writing and Book Marketing Advice
IHarnessing Your Passion to Strengthen Your Stories by Chris Winkle
On Writing
Reading Challenge: Overcome the Algorithms by Jami Gold
Making Time to Write by Elaine Viets
Stretch Your Style by James Scott Bell
Writing a Genre That’s New to You by Greer Mcallister
12 Things to Do When the Words Just Won’t Come by
How to Write Faster by Shaelin Bishop
What the Last Jedi [movie] Can Teach You About Writing by Eric Pierce
https://writingcooperative.com/the-last-jedi-can-teach-you-about-writing-bba4be994879
Rolling the Dice: 5 Ways D&D and “Critical Role” Made Me a Better Storyteller by Angela Mitchell
Five Promises You Make to the Reader by Shannon Dittemore
Where Do Character Strengths Come From by Becca Puglisi
How Can We Make Our Protagonist More Proactive by Jami Gold
Let Your Characters Tell the Story by Eldred “Bob” Bird
Ten Easy Jokes For Your Dialogue by Chris Winkle
To Absent Friends by Dave King (how to balance multiple characters’ point of views into the plot)
How to Tell a Story Within a Story by Oren Ashkenazi
Hopepunk is all about weaponized optimism by Aja Romano
https://www.vox.com/2018/12/27/18137571/what-is-hopepunk-noblebright-grimdark
N.K. Jemisin’s Dream Worlds by Raffi Khatchadourian (an interview with the fantasy writer who has won 3 Hugo Awards in row, the only one ever to do so)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/27/nk-jemisins-dream-worlds
On Writing Book Series & World Building for Book Series
Why Writing In a Series Will Make You More Money As a Writer by Joanna Penn
Choosing a Follow Up Strategy For a Popular Story by Bunny at Mythcreants
Six Common Problems With Long Series by Oren Ashkenazi
Six Tips For Sequels by Oren Ashkenazi
Seven Signs a Sequel Will Be Bad by Oren Ashkenazi
Five Ridiculous Organizations From Popular Stories by Oren Ashkenazi (this is a common issue in series if the same organization remains the villain for longer than one season / over many books)
How to Build a World For Anthology Stories by Oren Ashkenazi
Book Publishing & The Writing Community
Business Musings: Fear and Publishing by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (What expectations are barriers to you self-publishing your book? Might some of them be myths?)
The Decline of Mainstream Fiction by Anne R. Allen
Business Musings: The Future of Audio 2019 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The RWA Implosion: How Could the Problems Be Fixed by Jami Gold
Lack of DEI and the RITAs by Kharma Kelley (how RWA ended up here)
https://medium.com/@kharmakelley/how-a-dei-advocate-case-studies-the-ritas-7a8faa9a1079
Book Marketing
Don’t Advertise, PADvertise: Catch Readers With Their Pants Down by Kristen Lamb
No one knows what will work by Dan Blank
https://wegrowmedia.com/no-one-knows-what-will-work/
Business Musings: Book Birth Days by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (the Myth of a Book Launch making or breaking a book)
5 Adjectives That Don’t Sell a Book To Me by Nicola Alter
5 Adjectives That Sell a Book To Me by Nicola Alter
7 Expert Tricks to Improve Your Author Newsletter by David Gaughran
Things That Happen When You Stop Chasing Social Media by Alythia Brown
http://blog.janicehardy.com/2020/01/things-that-happen-when-you-stop.html
How to Market a Book on Amazon: 7 Easy Steps by Penny Sansevieri
Deep Stuff
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Orgasm by Mary Roach (TED Talk)
We Expect Too Much From Our Romantic Partners by Olga Khazan
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/we-expect-too-much-from-our-romantic-partners
How to help a friend through a tough time, according to a clinical psychologist by Kathryn Gordon
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/12/10/21003228/how-to-help-a-friend
Three Theories For Why You Have No Time by Derek Thompson
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/why-you-never-have-time/603937/
Fun Stuff
The Best “Toss a Coin To Your Witcher” Song Covers by Zoe Rosensweig
https://screenrant.com/witcher-toss-coin-song-covers-best/
40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World by The Shifter
Clever Life Hacks to Simplify Your World by The Shifter
The 25 Most Anticipated Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2020 by Stubby the Rocket
Movies We’re Looking Forward to in 2020 by Stubby the Rocket
About Reetta
I'm a Finnish fantasy / urban fantasy writer who loves reading, roleplaying and all things medieval. 
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