Link Feast For Writers, vol. 48
Writing blogs are a great way to learn about the craft and marketing our work. Enjoy the posts I’ve hoarded, some older, some recent.
And tune in for the next Link Feast, coming out in two weeks.
If You Have Time For Only One Thing
What’s Your Excuse For Not Writing? by Monica Bhide
On Writing
What Are the Odds of Success? … Really? by Kristen Lamb
Dare To Suck (great video, 3:56 min) by Jenny Hansen
Getting Organized by Karen Woodward
Creative People Say No by Kevin Ashton
Don’t Talk About It – Drive the Flaw to the Surface for Great Fiction by Kristen Lamb
How to Push Your Character to Their Limits by David Corbett
Does Your Novel Have Too Many Characters? by Janice Hardy
Genre Structure, Part 2: Thriller, Conspiracy and Action by Matt Bird
Specific Genre Structures, Part 3: Horror by Matt Bird
Specific Genre Structures, Part 4: Drama and Tragedy by Matt Bird
The 7 Basic Plots: Voyage and Return by Liz Bureman
How Convenient – Plot Contrivance by Elizabeth S. Craig
How to Build a Scene: Do You Have Surface Conflict and a Suppressed Conflict? by Matt Bird
A Psychological Self-Help Tool For Fiction Writers by Joseph Burgo
Hooks, Lines – And Sinkers by Shannon Donnelly
WriterStrong: Getting Fresh Emotion on the Page by Laura Drake
What’s the Visual? Adding Power to Your Writing by Margie Lawson
Three Great Tips From An Old Crime Writer by John Yeoman
Revision Tips by Angie Smibert
Writing a Book: What Happens After the First Draft by Joanna Penn
Ask Jami: Can This Story Be Saved? by Jami Gold
5 Ways to Find the Right Freelance Editor by Stacy Ennis
What Should We Expect From a Freelancer Editor? (A Timely Debate) by Therese Walsh
How to Serve and Swallow Criticism by Kristan Hoffman
7 Ways to Write a Stand Alone Book With Series Potential by Kurtis Scaletta
10 Things to Remember About Sequels by Janice Hardy
Three Ways Serials Can Improve Your Writing by Susan Kaye Quinn
4 Tips For Beta Reading In Other Genres by Jami Gold
Seven Ideas For Crafting Creative Book Reviews by Jody Hedlund
Book Marketing
The Business Rusch: Word of Mouth by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Entropy Is Real and Author Careers Need Feeding Daily by Kristen Lamb
5 Reasons Relationships Are the Core of Your Author Platform by Dan Blank
Ideal Reader Excercises and Why You Should Do One (New Free Resource) by Laura Pepper Wu
A Checklist of Basic Promotion Materials For Indie Authors by Chris Robley
New Author Series: How Do You Build a Fan Base Anyway? by Lindsay Buroker
How Sue London’s First Novel Became an Amazon Success in a Couple of Weeks by Lindsay Buroker
Book Marketing Tips For Fiction And Non-Fiction Authors by Joanna Penn (17:41 min video)
Marketing Sweat Equity in Book Publishing by Susan Kaye Quinn
How to Write a Back Blurb For Your Book by Joanna Penn (5:02 min video)
Selling Your Book – Hook, Line and Sinker by Susan Kaye Quinn
Street Teams: Why You Need One and How to Create One by Steena Holmes
How to Launch a Bestselling Book by Michael Hyatt
If You Write Two Different Kind of Books, Do You Need Two Different Websites? by Liz Higgs
Lessons Learned Froma a Magazine Launch – Use Them In Your Book Promotions by Laura Pepper Wu
Does This Bio Make Me Look Fat? 8 Tips For Enchanting Your Author Bio by Laura Pepper Wu
(Self-)Publishing
The Secret Way to Find a Literary Agent by John Yeoman
Mark Coker, Founder of Smashwords, Shares Survey Results: 5 Ways To Sell More eBooks by Karen Woodward
Lets Get Visible: Cracking The Amazon Algorithms With David Gaughran by Joanna Penn
Why I’m Totally Okay With Giving My Book Away Free by Dana Sitar
The Business Rusch: Shifting Sands by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Amazon’s New Scifi, Fantasy and Romance Sub-Categories by India Drummond
eBook Pricing Strategies: Pulsing and Pacing by D.D. Scott
Amazon Fan Fiction Model: Is It a Good Idea? by Jami Gold
Blogging
Why You Should Blog to Build Your Writing Career by Justine Musk
How to Create a Blog Purpose Statement in 3 Simple Steps by Darren Rowse
7 Questions to Ask Yourself to Bring Clarity to Your Blogging by Darren Rowse
On Hamburgers and Hooks: How to Effortlessly FIND (Not Write) Your Compelling First Line by Kelly Diels-Rostant
How to Write Your Best Post Ever, Part 2: Writing by Vinita Zutshi
Pixabay – A great blog photo source (free to use quality photos)
3 Things I’ve Learned From Blogging Every Day For a Year by Karen Woodward
Author Blogging 101: Blog Analytics by Joel Friedlander
Adding Google Analytics Tracking Code to WordPress by Joel Friedlander
Direct Marketing, Scottsdale Arizona, and Why a $10 Ebook Can Change Your Life by Joel Friedland (Turn your most popular blog posts into eBooks)
Social Media
Finding Your Authentic Social Media Voice by Abby Kerr
Get the Most Out of Facebook in the Least Amount of Time: A 10 Tip Guide by Anne Chaconas
The Ultimate Guide To Goodreads For Authors by Joanna Penn
29 Tips From the Top Google Plus Geeks by Ramsay at Blog Tyrant
Pinterested Explained By Someone Who Doesn’t Get It by Drew Hoolhorst
Collected Wisdom
Twitterific by Elizabeth S. Craig
Monday Must Reads by Yesenia Vargas
Deep Stuff
Personal Growth: The Right – And Wrong – Way to Share It With Others by Marie Forleo
We Have Always Fought: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative by Kameron Hurley
Living In Dystopia by Eugene Myers
Why Superheroes Are an Awesome Allegory For Real Teen Life by Leigh Anne Kopans
Fun Stuff
Relationships: The Male vs. Female Perspective In Under 2 Minutes by Jenny Hansen
Shall We Begin? Star Trek Into Darkness Spoiler Review by Keith DeCandido
Nitpicks and Not Being a Know-It-All: Talking To Your Friends About the Game of Thrones (When They Haven’t Read the Books) by Bridget McGovern
Who Actually Deserves to Win the Game of Thrones by Chris Lough
News Events I Shouldn’t Laugh At (But Do) — Michael Douglas, By The Tweets… by Jenny Hansen
If Margaret Mitchell Submitted Gone With the Wind Today by Leigh Michaels
A Day Made of Glass (5:29 min video with cool futuristic tech)
Link Feast For Writers, vol. 44
Writing blogs are a great way to learn about the craft and marketing our work. Enjoy the posts I’ve hoarded, some older, some recent.
And tune in for the next Link Feast, coming out in two weeks.
If You Have Time For Only One Thing
The Art of Asking: For Creative Writers and Storytellers by Chuck Wendig
(This is worth your 15 minutes. I promise. Watch the talk.)
On Writing
What Lights Your Creative Spirit on Fire? by Jenny Hansen
Inspiration Hunting in the Publishing World by Sonali Dev
What Kind of an Author Do You Want to Be? by David Farland
How to Write Better, Faster & Easier by Matching Your Writing Process With the Way You Think by Don Fry
Why Some Books Are Harder to Write Than Others by Janice Hardy
The Faster I Write, the Better the Book? by Roni Loren
Be a Copycat by Keith Cronin
The Play’s the Thing by Robin LaFevers
Setting – The First, Most Crucial Choice for your Career AND your Character by Blythe Gifford
How to Use Your Logline, Tagline and Pitch to Write a Stronger Story by Marcy Kennedy
Characters
Creating Characters – What You Really Need by David Farland
Creating Characters – What You Really Need, Part 2 by David Farland
What Your Character Really Needs – The Central Question by David Farland
How to Create a Compelling Character: Contrast Their Outer and Inner Lives by Matt Bird
Know More Than You Show, Part 1: Characters by Matt Bird
Writing From an Authentic Teen Viewpoint by Lydia Sharp
The Hero’s Journey – My Pros and Cons by Veronica Sicoe
Rich Relationships by Donald Maass
Choose Wisely: Metaphors In Character by Jael McHenry
Plotting etc.
Know More Than You Show, Part 2: Plot by Matt Bird
Every Scene Needs It’s Own Hero by Matt Bird
Where Should a Second Chapter Start? by Beth Hill
Stressed-Out Characters – Just the Way We Want Them by Diane Krause
Why Serious Books Need Humor and Levity to Work by Sarah Skilton
Handling Cliffhanger Endings With Multiple POVs by Janice Hardy
The Clock Is Ticking – 5 Tips For Tighter, Cleaner Writing by Kristen Lamb
Know More Than You Show, Conclusion: Theme by Matt Bird
When You Really, Really Care by Dave King
The Battle of Science and Magic, Part One – Particles and Pixie Dust by Victoria Hooper
Be Your Own Book Doctor by Janice Hardy
The 7 Deadly Sins of Self-Editing by Janice Gable Bashman & Kathryn Craft
Cynicism Is Never Romantic With Handsome Hansel
Playing the Short Game: Why Short Fiction? by Douglas Smith
Book Marketing
Focusing on the Writing First by Elizabeth S. Craig
Measure Your (Self-)Publishing Competence by Joel Friedlander
(Awesome breakdown of 6 Core Skills all writers need)
Tactics vs. Strategy by C.J. Lyons
The ABCs of Voice Values: Part 2 (H-P) by Abby Kerr
The ABCs of Voice Values, Part 3 (Q-Z) by Abby Kerr
8 Book Marketing Tasks To Tackle BEFORE Your Book Is Published by Toni at DuoLit
3 Ways to Build Meaningful Connections to Move Your Writing Career Forward by Monica Carter Tagore
It’s Write O’Clock: Do You Know Who Your Contacts Are? by Susan Spann
Book Promotion Advice From Popular Indie Fantasy Author Joseph Lallo
Why I Cut My Email List In Half by C.J. Lyons
How to Book Your Own Virtual Book Tour by Chris Robley
When Visibility Doesn’t Lead to Book Sales by Genevieve Pearson
(Self-)Publishing
The #1 Reason for #QueryFails – How to Avoid Automatic Rejection from a Reviewer, Agent, Editor or Blogger by Anne R. Allen
Querying? Think Outside the Box to Get Noticed by LynDee Walker
Turn One Agent’s No Into Another Agent’s Yes by Wendy Burt-Thomas
The Business Rusch: The Bad Book by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (reader & editor preferences)
What Does the Future Look Like For Traditional Publishers and What Does That Mean For Self-Published Authors? by D.D. Scott
Go-To List for Helpful Indie Resources (The Writer’s Guide to Publishing)
The Business Rusch: Binge Reading by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The Frontiers of Publishing by Jason Dyck
Book Promotion – What’s Working at Amazon in 2013 by Lindsay Buroker
Blogging
Do Authors Need a Website and Blog? by Jami Gold
To Blog Or Not To Blog, That Is Jane Friedman’s Question by Karen Woodward
What Should an Author Website Include by Jami Gold
Which Content-Marketing Tasks Can Wait Until After Your Site Launches? by Amy Harrison
How to Build an Online Marketing Audience of People You Don’t Know by Manon Eileen
How Authors Can Survive the Death of Google Reader by Caitlin Muir
5 Lessons Cat Videos Can Teach Us About Blissfully Mindless Content by Marie Rotter
3 Criticial Thigs to Remember About Guest Posting by Danny Iny
Social Media
Wonder Twin Powers…ACTIVATE! Introverts & Extroverts Unite by Kristen Lamb
7 Ways Buffer Will Change Your (Social Media) Life by Shannon at DuoLit
Can Social Media Tools Make Us a Social Tool? by Kristen Lamb
Twitter: My 5 Unshakable Beliefs by Ann Neugebauer
Collected Wisdom
Writing Resources by Gene Lempp
Twitterific by Elizabeth S. Craig
Friday Features by Yesenia Vargas
Deep Stuff
How to Tell if You’re Really Overloaded (and What to Do About It) by Mark McGuinness
Is It Better to Be a Good Person or a Great One? by Mary Kennedy
Enough Feisty Princesses: Disney Needs an Introverted Heroine by Lindsay Lowe
Will Old People Take Over the World by George Dvorsky
Fun Stuff
The Funniest Amazon Review I’ve Seen This Month by Jenny Hansen
5 Shockingly Advanced Ancient Buildings That Shouldn’t Exist by Eric Yosomono
The 21 Happiest Objects of All Time by Jessica Misener
Fiction Affliction: March Releases in Fantasy by Suzanne Johnson
Fiction Affliction: March Releases in Urban Fantasy by Suzanne Johnson
Fiction Affliction: Genre Benders For March by Suzanne Johnson
Link Feast For Writers, vol. 41
Writing blogs are a great way to learn about the craft and marketing our work. Enjoy the posts I’ve hoarded, some older, some recent.
If You Have Time For Only One Thing
Self-Publishing and Traditional Publishing: Enjoy the Best of Both Worlds – Interview with C.J. Lyons by Jane Friedman
On Writing
Feeling Overwhelmed? Eat That Frog by Kristen Lamb
Organizing: Eat Dessert First! | Dialogue is War | Make Readers Click On Buy by Randy Ingermansson (eZine PDF)
Why You Get Nothing Done When You Have a Lot On Your Plate by Shanna Mann
5 Quick Tips to Write More by Kathy Steffen
Writing Goals Sheet by Gabriela Pereira at DIY MFA
Enemies of the Art, Part 7 – Failure to Focus by Kristen Lamb
8 Tips For Finding Motivation to Write by Karen Woodward
Closing the Gap: Moving from Notebook to Story by Susan Jackson Rodgers
Dwight V. Swain on How to Write a Novel by Karen Woodward
“In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you” – Mortimer J. Adler
How to Write a Character From Start to Finish by Jeff Gerke
Tags, Traits and Tells by Karen Woodward
The Table Theory of Characterization by Ryan Howse (uses Firefly as an example <3)
The Elementary Life of a Sidekick by Alex Bledshoe
How to Build a Story World Based on a Character by Jeno Marz
Roleplaying Games, Writing and Creation of Magic Systems by Karen Woodward
The Inciting Incident/Call to Action (Key Story Elements) by Alexandra Sokoloff
How to Add Jeopardy to Your Story Before the Main Conflict Starts? by Roz Morris
37 Ways to Keep Readers’ Pulses Racing—and Keep Them Reading by Jordan McCollum
Theme Me Up: How to Develop Your Theme by Janice Hardy
Alternative Ways to Describe Character Reactions by Janice Hardy
Good Writing: Using the Senses by Karen Woodward
A Short Course in Line Editing by Michelle Seaton
Analyzing Story Structure by Karen Woodward
Top Ten Romantic Movies by Alexandra Sokoloff
5 Techniques to Spice Up Your Writing by Jon Morrow
The Terrible Addiction by Annie Laurie Cechini
Book Marketing
“Marketing is just telling the right story to the right people.” – C.J. Lyons
Learn Your Craft, Dummy – No, I’m Not Talking About Writing by Edward Robertson
Why Even a Novelist Should Know How to Write Strong Copy by Dana Sitar
The 5 Phases of Microbusiness Brand Development by Abby Kerr
Your Secret Sauce: 9 Steps to Creating an Addicting Brand by Tea Silvestre
The Marketing Rule of 7 by Tea Silvestre
The Author With the Biggest Mailing List Wins by David Gaughran
3 Steps to Building Your Street Team by C.J. Lyons
5 Ways to Market Your Romance Novel by Tim Grahl
4 Great Examples of Author Websites by Caitlin Muir (AuthorMedia)
Are You Making This HUGE Book Marketing Mistake? by Shannon at DuoLit
How to Sell eBooks by J.A. Konrath
Your Amazon Author Central Page by Bufo Calvin
(Self-)Publishing
SWOT Your Way to a Sustainable Writing Business by Vickie Taylor
Why Writing Is a Business and How to Win At It by Nick Thacker
Recipe For a Successful Synopsis by Jami Gold
Checklist: The 6 Essentials For Submitting Your Novel to Agents by Brian A. Klems
5 Things I’ve Learned From Self-Publishing by James Calbraith
THING 2. Sucessful Seduction and the Naked Truth: Rethink Cover Design for a Small, Small World by Elle Lothlorien
Why and How to Use Multimedia to Enchance Your eBooks by Harry Guinness
What I’d Like to See from eBooksellers in 2013: A Holiday Wishlist by Edward Robertson (Great analysis of strenghts and weaknesses of Amazon, Nook etc.)
What About the Needs of the Reader? by Elizabeth S. Craig
Why Children Hold The Key To Your Future As An Author by Jonathan Gunson
Blogging
How Not To Show Up Like an A-List Blogger by Charlie Gilkey
Quirky Much? How Your Oddities, Flaws and Peculiar Habits Help You Build a Stronger Brand by Tea Silvestre
How to Create an Agile Content Marketing Strategy (and Stay Sane Doing It) by Pamela Wilson
Your Signature Dish: How to Create a Program That Sizzles by Tea Silvestre
5 Silly Ways You’re Sabotaging Your Blog without Even Realizing It by Tommy Walker
Experiences That Make Readers Excited to Spread Your Message by Danny Iny
Why Guru Strategies for Blog Growth DON’T WORK… and What Does! by Danny Iny
Wordalicious – How to Choose the Tastiest Words For Your Message by Tea Silvestre
5 Elevator Pitch Tips For Your Blog by Amy Lynn Andrews
What Happens If You Stop Blogging? by Annabel Candy
Social Media
Digital Sheep Get Slaughtered – Being Safe On Social Media by Kristen Lamb
Feeling Overwhelmed With Social Media? Social Media Can Make Us Crazy–Part 2 by Kristen Lamb
Promoting Your Book on Facebook and Twitter Is a Total Waste of Time by Mary W. Walters (the antithesis)
How to Use Twitter to Develop and Promote Your Zone of Genius by Justine Musk
7 Splendid Articles on Using Goodreads As an Author by Iain Broome
Collected Wisdom
Writing Resources by Gene Lempp
Twitterific by Elizabeth S. Craig
Deep Stuff
Show Up In a Different Way by Charlie Gilkey
The One Thing You Must Do To Achieve Break-Through Results by Michael Hyatt
Restock Your Happiness Well by Ginger Calem
“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.” – Dalai Lama
Do We Have the Right to Judge Other People? by Marcy Kennedy
The Truth About Constipation and Life by Shannon Lell
Note to Self: Don’t Get Organized by Gretchen Rubin
Library Love: The Sexy Librarian And Our Collective Imagination by Stephanie Bonjack
Defeating the Great Depression by Sarah Hoyt
23 Science Books That Are So Exciting They Read Like Genre Fiction by Annalee Newitz (great material for all writers with a dystopian bend)
Fun Stuff
What Kind of a Book Reader Are You? A Diagnostics Guide by Jen Doll (Thanks for the link, Jenny Hansen!)
Incredibly Weird Photos of People With Their Pets (Mommy Has a Potty Mouth)
Movie Spoilers: Who exactly is Peter Dinklage playing in X-Men: Days of Future Past? (and other cool tidbits) by Alasdair Wilkins
The 12 Most Horrifically Bad Dates in All of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Meredith Woerner
The 7 Greatest Bromances in Space by Rob Bricken (fear not, no slash here)
Trailer Frenzy: A Creepy Near Future Book About Government Experiments on Teenagers by Annalee Newitz
Link Feast For Writers, vol. 37
Writing blogs are a great way to learn about the craft and marketing our work. Enjoy the posts I’ve hoarded, some older, some recent.
If You Have Time For Only One Thing
Embrace the Naked by Robin LaFevers
On Writing
What Is Your Goal As a Writer? by Laura Drake
The Ultimate Measure of Your Sucess by Mark McGuinness
13 Reasons to Keep Writing in 2013 by Jody Hedlund
3 Ways to Overcome Fear in 2013 by Shannon at DuoLit
Taking the Scary Out of Scrivener by Gwen Hernandez
Chuck Wendig On Writing: How He Writes a Book by Karen Woodward
5 Ways to Come Up With Great Story Ideas by Brian A. Klems
How to Strenghten a Story Idea by Roz Morris
Writing Your Obsessions by Cathy Marie Buchanan
9 Tips For Writing a Really Good Shitty First Draft by Lisa Cron
Connect With Readers’ Emotions: How to Make People Cry by Karen Woodward
Push Your Characters Into Interesting by Kathy Steffen
Using Public Domain Characters In Your Stories by Karen Woodward
The First 15 Minutes Project: Peter Parker In Spiderman by Matt Bird
The First 15 Minutes Project: Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Matt Bird
The First 250 Words of Your Manuscript by Janice Hardy
Writing Emotion: How Great Writers Do It by Kim Aippersbach
Four Ways to Pre Write Your Scenes by Janice Hardy
Should I Write That Potentially Controversial Scene? by Roni Loren
Foreshadowing & Chekhov’s Gun: Don’t Blow It by Kristen Lamb
Storyteller’s Rulebook: Don’t Make Them Say It by Matt Bird
Three Keys to Memorable Similes and Metaphors by Marcy Kennedy
How Chuck Wendig Edits a Novel by Chuck Wendig
The Finishing Touches by Jael McHenry
When Should You Stop Revising by Janice Hardy
11 Writerly Types to Avoid (Bluestocking)
Book Marketing
Book Marketing Predictions For 2013 by Thomas Umstaddt
How to Understand and Use Your Voice Values In Your Brand Today by Abby Kerr
Tips For Writing Back Cover Copy by Roz Morris
Approaching Promo in 2013 by Elizabeth S. Craig
Building Your Author Platform in 10 Hours a Week (Including Writing Time!) by Chris Robley
Divide and Conquer: Building an Author Platform by Proxy by Joanna Penn
Books Don’t Bomb, Authors Do by John Ward
5 Reasons It’s Hard to Market Indie Fiction and What to Do About It by Rachelle Ayala
I Wrote a Book But It Won’t Sell – What To Do? by Derek Haines
(Self-)Publishing
Introducing the Query/Blurb Exchange Club by Jami Gold
The Facts vs. the Story You Tell Yourself by Rachelle Gardner
Want Agents to Read Your Novel? Do This First by Suzannah Windsor Freeman
Agent Secrets – Do Writers Need an Agent in the New Publishing Paradigm? by Laurie McLean
Query Strategy – Narrow Focus or Scattergun? by Fae Rowen
Book Contract: What’s Negotiable and What’s Not by Brian A. Klems
5 Surprises About Self-Publishing by Jennie Nash
What Do Tradpubs Do… And Can You Do It? by Bufo Calvin
Susan Kaye Quinn’s Self-Pub Basics (Part One of Four): Where to Publish
Susan Kaye Quinn’s Self-Publish Basics (Part Two of Four): Formatting the Easy Way
Amazon’s Kindle Store – A Breakdown of Books by Category [Infographic] by Gary McLaren
Blogging
Blogging for Authors, and How a Banana Slicer Saved My Marriage by Kristen Lamb
8 Things Every Blogging Writer Should Know by Chuck Sambuchino
How to Get 80% of the Results With 20% of the Content by Chris Garrett
4 Steps to Better Blogging Time Management by Amy Lynn Andrews
How to Create a Total Content System by John Jantsch
50 Ways to Drive Massive Traffic to Your Blog by Cassie Boorns
Where Great Copywriting Does Not Come From by Abby Kerr
Social Media
How to Stay Connected When Your Number of Connections Grow by Pamela Slim
15 Common Twitter Questions Authors Ask by Caitlin Muir
What Do Your Facebook Interactions REALLY Say About You? by Jenny Hansen
Collected Wisdom
Twitterific by Elizabeth S. Craig
Friday Features by Yesenia Vargas
Deep Stuff
Curatives for judgement. (Please read before you interact with other humans) by Danielle La Porte
Five Geek Social Fallacies by Michael Suileabhain-Wilson
Don’t Be a Dreamer, Be a Planner by Penelope Trunk
Unravelling the Year Ahead by Susannah Conway (really useful workbook for looking ahead and back at 2012)
How to Do Your Own Annual Review by Chris Guillebeau (this is a piece of cake if you are ROWing)
Fun Stuff
6 Reasons Why Batman Is Both Perfect and Boring by Esther Inglis-Arkell
A Sample of George R.R. Martin’s Next aSoIaF Book, the Winds of Winter
Search Term Bingo: The Revengification by Chuck Wendig (his weirdness at its best, totally non PC)
2012 Debut Author Cover War (behold these awesome book covers)
A Free SFF Short Story Anthology: Some of the Best From Tor.com 2012
The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World by Emily Temple
Link Feast For Writers, vol. 35
Happy New Year! I hope these links help to make year 2013 kickass for you. Enjoy.
If You Have Time For Only One Thing
Suicide, Shame and the Painful Truth About Accomplishing Your Goals by Jon Morrow
On Writing
How to Keep Production Going All Year by Dean Wesley Smith
Writing Five Minutes a Day by Alexandra Sokoloff
Should A Writer Let Her Reader’s Expectations Influence Her Artistic Judgement? by Karen Woodward
Logline Library (hundreds of movie loglines)
Losing My Religion: Misconceptions About Tone by Matt Bird
13 Ways to Create Compelling Characters by Justine Musk
Dangerously Genre Savvy Villains (TV Tropes, check out some of the examples)
Name That Character: Top 10 Tips (The Script Lab)
The Paradox by Donald Maass
Stephen King’s Magic: How To Write Compelling Characters & Great Openings by Karen Woodward
A Simple Way to Create Suspense by Lee Child
Act and Sequence Bridges by Alexandra Sokoloff
The Past Is a Foreign Country, So Learn the Language by Matt Bird
The Importance of Setting by Meredith Bond
Four Tips For Fixing the Infamous Info Dump by Jami Gold
How Many Drafts Does It Take to Write a Novel by Karen Woodward
10 Things I Know About How Writers Read by Jenny Hansen
YA Authors Are Creating a New Steamy Genre by Leslie Kaufman
Download and Study Award Nominated Screenplays
Book Marketing
Do You Have a Personal Platform Plan for 2013? by Michael Hyatt
Why Authors Must Build Direct Channels to Readers (Kindle Review)
Your Author Business Plan: Compare, Contrast and Conquer by Susan Spann
Feel Like You’re Running in Place? 4 Simple Ways to Track Your Book Marketing Process by Toni at DuoLit
25 Things I Learned From Doing Business in 2012 by Abby Kerr
Your Story Is Your Marketing Strategy by Vanessa Merit Nornberg
(Self-)Publishing
Writing and Publishing in 2013: How to Survive and Thrive, Part One by Karen Woodward
Writing and Publishing in 2013: How to Survive and Thrive, Part Two by Karen Woodward
What’s Ahead in 2013–Predictions for the Future of Publishing and Authors of the Digital Age by Kristen Lamb
Konrath’s Resolutions For Writers by J.A. Konrath (damn inspiring)
Kindleboards: How to Add Your Signature to Your Profile, Network and Other Tips by Laura Pepper Wu
Blogging
A Rant on Why I Disagree With So Many Blogging and Marketing Experts by Marcus Sheridan
How to Make Your Site the Destination For Your Market by Chris Garrett
7 Ways to Fascinate Your Readers and Build a Hugely Loyal Following by Henneke Duistermaat
How to Quit Publishing Bad Content by Sonia Simone
4 Tips For Writing a Blog Post Opening That Turns Heads by Tara Horner
How a Quick Analysis of Your Top Posts Can Improve Your Blogging Results Next Year by Michael Hyatt
8 Incredibly Simple Ways to to Get More People to Read Your Content by Pamela Wilson
How to Get 40 000 Readers Without Guest Blogging by Gregory Ciotti
Reblogging Etiquette by Marcy Kennedy
‘Tis the Season to Be Chaotic, Is Reblogging the Answer? by Jami Gold
How to Improve Your Website Trust Factor by Chris Garrett
Social Media
A Simple Cheat Sheet for Using Pinterest for Marketing [Infographic] by Pamela Vaughan
Pinterest Could Be the Ultimate Tool for Curating Content by Tami Smith
Collected Wisdom
Twitterific by Elizabeth S. Craig
Friday Features by Yesenia Vargas
Deep Stuff
Everyday Deeds That Keep the Darkness At Bay by Lisa Hall-Wilson
Mommy Quandrary: Teaching Faith When You’re Not Sure Where You Stand by Roni Loren
Urgency: The Natural Way to Prioritize by Mark Forster
50+ Better Questions To Ask Than How To Be More Productive by Charles Gilkey
Checklist of Rationality Habits by Anna Salamon (Myers-Briggs TJs do this naturally, we FPs need some help)
The Busy Trap by Tim Kreider
Fun Stuff
The Evil Overlord List (TV Tropes)
2012 Fiction Wrap Up From Tor.com (few dozen SFF short stories)
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