Link Feast For Writers Vol. 11
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.
On Writing (Character Special)
Drop The Drama Bomb by Mario Acevendo at Writers In The Storm
Spice Up Your Writing With Optimal Learning Styles by Jan O’Hara at Writer Unboxed
Ask Your Character: Why Do You Matter? by Donald Maass at Writer Unboxed
Depth of Character by Donald Maass at Writer Unboxed
First Impressions by Diana Peterfreund
Giving Your Character A Unique Voice (Film Script Writing)
5 Tests To See If Character’s Voice Is Working by Christopher Boone
What Makes A Female Character Strong by Jami Gold
10 Antagonist No No’s by Lynn Viehl
16 Villain Archetypes by Tami Cowden
Top 10 Mentor Characters by Alexandra Sokoloff
Where Are All The Female Mentor Characters by Stella Carter at Jezebel
How To Kill Characterization (at Drying Ink)
Myers-Briggs As A Tool For Authors by Fae Rowen
Chinese Element Personality Types For Fun & Writing by Fae Rowen
Creating Character Depth With Astrological Signs by C.J. Winters
Character Trading Cards by Lynn Viehl
Using Tarot For Creative Writing by Janet Boyer
10 Easy Ways to Improve Your Dialogue by Ali Luke at Write To Done
Create a Rough Sketch Of Your Work In Progress (diymfa.com)
12 Ways To Create Suspense by Gail Carson Levine
What Everyone Knows & Team Mundane by Catherynne M. Valente
Practical Writing Tips From 22 Brilliant Authors (scroll down to get the advice. My favourite bit was: “Write the first chapter LAST”)
Writing Quickly: A Secret Strategy by Ava Jae
Trend Tracking Versus Jumping by Lynn Viehl
Write Books That Change Lives by Ingrid Sundberg
Book Series Sell by agent Rusell Galen
Do You Read Like A Reader Or A Writer by Janice Hardy
Fighting Writer Fatique by Lynn Viehl
Your Author Platform
How Much Interaction Should Writers Have With Their Readers by Jody Hedlund
Hustling: How To Spread Word About Your Book by Chris Guillebeau
Convention Schmoozing 101 by Mary Robinette Kowal
How To Write Free Content That Gets You An Avalanche Of Traffic by Danny Iny
How To Keep Your Book Talk Fresh by Roz Morris
3 Selling Tactics From The Internet Marketing Gurus by Lindsay Buroker
89 Book Marketing Ideas (Author Media)
How To Launch A Book Without Losing Your Mind by Elizabeth S. Craig
Blogging
How Long Does It Take To Get Blog Readers? by Nina Amir
Top 10 Blog Traffic Killers by Michael Hyatt
How To Get Better Results With List Posts (Pushing Social)
3 Guaranteed Ways To Get Your Blog Post Read (Pushing Social)
Put Some Thought Into Your Blog Comments: No Vanilla Adjectives Please by Susie Lindau (check out the comments too)
How To Write A Good Blog Comment by Nathan Bradsford
Find Your Blog’s Unique Voice by Jeff Goins at ProBlogger
How To Promote Your Blog Like The Big Guys by Leo Baubata
How To Get Serious About Promoting Your Blog (Pushing Social)
Launching A Successful Blog Tour by Alan Rinzler
Hosting Your Own WordPress Website by Melinda Van Lone
Must Have WordPress Plug-ins by Annabel Candy
If I Started Blogging Today, I Would… by Annette Gendler
The New Style Of Blog Writing by Mary Jaksch
Shakespeare on Blogging by Leanne Shirtliffe
How To Figure Out What Content People Want (at Social Triggers)
Social Media
8 Ways To Grow Your Social Media Footprint by Jenny Hansen
Why Authors Tweet (NYTimes)
Twitter Success Tricks from @thewritermama
Content Creator’s Twitter Evolution (Writer’s Digest)
Control Your Social Media So It Doesn’t Control You by Elizabeth S. Craig
Triberr Review: Useful Tool Or Shiny Toy? by Linda Adams
Tumblr For Writers by Ava Jae
Collected Wisdom
Blog Treasures by Gene Lempp (June 2)
Twitterific by Elizabeth S. Craig (June 3)
Friday Features by Yesenia Vargas (June 1)
Writing on the Ether by Porter Anderson (May 31)
Deep Stuff
What’s the First Thing You Do When You Open The Computer? by Seth Godin
Expand Your Circles by Amber West
Email Sanity: How To Clear Your Inbox When You’re Drowning at Zen Habits
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: The Princess Culture by Margot Magowan
Fun Stuff
Male & Female Eye Candy (collection of actor photos)
FictFact – Track Your Favorite Book Series
Bookmarks From Hell by Lynn Viehl
10 Signs You’ve Attended Too Many Writing Workshops by Lynn Viehl
The Vampire Smythe (short story by Lynn Viehl)
Dark & Devastating Secrets (shot, funny story by Lynn Viehl)
Armor-ella (short fairytale retelling by Holly Lisle)
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About Reetta
I'm a Finnish fantasy / urban fantasy writer who loves reading, roleplaying and all things medieval. 
Thanks so much for including me in your awesome mash up! The title is a little more “hideous” than one about adjectives… 🙂 This is so Hideous!
Thanks again!
Thanks for the hideous post, Susie.
Thanks for including Author Media! We’re honored.
Thanks for the link, Retta! You’ve got some great stuff here. I’ll have to check some of these links out.
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What an incredible, thorough, delightful feast of links. Thank you for all your effort to put this together. Like a great meal, it’s going to take me awhile to enjoy everything here.
And, of course, thanks for the blog love.
-Fae Rowen
Thanks for the mention, Reeta – and wow, what a terrific trove of great posts you’ve found! I shall rummage with pleasure.
Wow! Fantastic collection of links. I’ll have to go through these when I have a better internet connection. Thanks for including me. 🙂
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Reetta, where do you find these amazing posts? My mouth dropped open! Wow, girl your unbelievable! Thank you so much for all your hard work. You’ve given us some great information. If I can’t write now, there is no hope. LOL! 🙂
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What fantastic resources. You have a knack for compilations, woman! 🙂 Thanks for doing some of the grunt work out for us. Off to scope links!
Wow, what a collection! Donald Maass’ posts are always fantastic. Love Tami Cowden’s character archetypes, too. But so much good stuff I haven’t read – going to have to check these out when I’m done with the two web design jobs I’m working on right now. Thanks for collecting them all in one place!
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Every time I come to your mash-ups, I’m in awe. I could just sit and read link after link. Thank you so much for including Melinda’s guest post on my site!
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