Link Feast For Writers vol. 9
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
How Do You Know If You’re Good At Writing? by Sarah Hoyt
How To Go From Writing 2000 Words a Day To 10 000 Words a Day by Rachel Aaron
What Kind Of A Story Is it? (And What’s Similar) by Alexandra Sokoloff
Developing Your Plot Idea by Elizabeth S. Craig
How To Plot a Novel In 5 Steps by Rachel Aaron
Stuck With a Story? A List Of Favourite Elements Comes To Rescue by Alexandra Sokoloff
Visual Storytelling by Alexandra Sokoloff
Making Characters Memorable: MFA Symposium Panel by Kourtney Heintz
Iron Man Disassembled: Breaking Down The Would Be Hero by Cynric Whitaker
A Hero’s Strongest Ally Is His Worst Enemy by Cynric Whitaker
The First 50 Pages: Insights From Jeff Gerke’s Workshop (by Kourtney Heintz)
4 Ways To Hook Your Readers & Keep Them Wanting More by Jody Hedlund
Motivation Reaction Units For Pacing by Lori Devoti
Put The Pope In The Pool or Adding Fun To Boring Information by Lori Devoti
When Arguments Are a Good Thing: Conflict In Dialogue by K.M. Weiland
A Steaming Pile Of Should by Cathy at Rock Your Writing
Cliche Guilt – What If I Just Like Reading This Stuff by Gerard Houarner
Why the Hell Did All The Cool Stuff Happen In Your Setting 1000 Years Ago?
Prepare For Long Apprenticeship by John Yeoman
Short Stories As A Marketing Tool by Monica Valentinelli
7 Reasons To Get an Editor by Sarah Baughman
Dear Editor: Will You Marry My Manuscript? by Julie Hedlund
Top 10 Things To Do At a Writing Conference by Julie Glover
Best Writing Tools: My “How To Write” Bookshelf by Kathy Steffen
Your Author Platform
How To Find The Perfect Audience For Your Book & Sell It To Them by Nick Thacker
How to Get Guest Posts On Big Name Blogs by Ollin Morales at Writer Unboxed
We Are Not Alone: Do You Have These 3 Peeps In Your Team? (reviving a Kristen Lamb series from October 2011)
- The Connector: Social Media Butterfly Extraordinaire
- Meet the Maven: Collectors of Data & Brokers of Information
- Salesman: Every Deal Needs a Closer
Everything You Need To Know About Word Of Mouth Marketing (PDF by Andy Sernovitz)
Plan Your Word of Mouth Campaign: The 5 T’s (PDF by Andy Sernovitz)
Talker Profiles: Why Would People Talk About Your Book? (PDF by Andy Sernovitz)
Topics Brainstorming Exercise: Give Your Talkers Something To Share (PDF by Andy Sernovitz)
Monthly Marketing To Do List For Writers by Rob Eagar
Reviews Can Create a Besteller by Aggie Villa Nueva
A Writer’s Guide To Book Blogger Etiquette by Linda Poitevin
5 Ways To Get More Book Reviews by Monica Valentinelli
How To Go Offline For a While & Not Kill Your Site by Monica Valentinelli
Blogging
Top 10 Blogs For Bloggers 2012 Winners at A-List Blogging Bootcamps (check them out and see what you can learn)
7 Out Of The Box Blogging Ideas by Shari Stauch at Writer Unboxed
10 Lessons Learned in 10 Months Of Blogging by Carrie Mumford
5 Ways To Improve Your New WordPress Blog by Carrie Mumford
Engaging Readers (Not Other Writers) With Your Blog by Linda Adams
13 Blog Ideas For Novelists by Michael Hyatt
Anatomy of an Effective Blog Post by Michael Hyatt
12 Things To Do After You’ve Written a New Blog Post by Oli Gardner
7 Tips For Turning Your Blog Into A Book (Writer’s Digest)
Social Media
6 Social Media Platforms: Which Is The Best For You? by Lisa Hall-Wilson
Develop a Social Media Conversation Topic Calendar by Debbie Williams
Triberr, Using the Power of Friends To Promote Your Blog by Lori Devoti
5 Secrets of Highly Effective Twitter Users by Minda Zetlin
2 Technology Hacks For Dealing With Twitter Spam by Linda Adams
5 Successful Twitter Campaigns (Yeah, done by big companies with big budgets but the ideas are wonderfully creative. What creative things YOU could do in Twitter?)
20 Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers (Web SEO Analytics)
How To Promote Your Books on Goodreads by Edie Ramer
10 Tips For Optimizing Your YouTube Videos (Web SEO Analytics)
7 Do’s and Don’ts of Pinterest Marketing by Kim Garst
Collected Wisdom
Blog Treasures by Gene Lempp (May 19th)
Twitterific by Elizabeth S.Craig (May 20th)
5 Time Managament Links for Writers by Linda Adams
Deep Stuff
The Beast Within: What Vampires & Werewolves Say About Human Nature by Cynric Whitaker
Leaning Into the Leap by Coleen Patrick
Real Women by T.J. Brumfield
Deep stuff behind our thoughts (how do these apply to your characters?)
Invisible Scripts: Why You Act The Way You Do In Relationships by Ashley Arn
Icarus & My Fear Of The Sun by Marcy Kennedy
Female Character Agency by Ana & Thea from The Book Smugglers review site
Don’t Fear The Unicorn (are fantasy books too soft and girly?) by N.K. Jemisin
Fun Stuff
Random Thoughts Upon a Graduation Ceremony by Sarah Hoyt (I love her voice)
20 Ways to Make a Geek Hate You by Ellie Ann Soderstrom
Behind The Scenes: The Official Game of Thrones Cookbook by Marcy Kennedy
Female Protagonist Reactions To Getting Dumped (Bella Swan vs. Hermione, Princess Leia & Zoe from Firefly etc.)
Women in SF&F: Underloved Authors by Fantasy Book Cafe (I would add Holly Lisle to this list. Her books are awesome but I had never heard of them until I read her writing advice)
Must Read Sci-fi Novels Written by Women by Shara from Calico Reaction review site
Women in SF&F: Resources (great sites helping you to find more books written by women in these genres)
We Are The Authors Lyrics (sung to the tune of Queen’s We Are The Champions) by Monica Valentinelli
Level Me Up: Gamification of Your Life & Writing by Day Al-Mohamed
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About Reetta
I'm a Finnish fantasy / urban fantasy writer who loves reading, roleplaying and all things medieval. 
Wow – impressive list! Thanks for the link to my post. Lots of reading to do – great mashup.
Lisa Hall-Wilson recently posted..A Careful Man’s Impulsive Daughter
Thanks for writing such great posts that I can include 🙂
That is a lot of information (and work!) Reetta–thanks for compiling. And thanks for including me!
Coleen Patrick recently posted..Leaning into the Leap
It takes a while to hunt down the links but it’s the perfect excuse to read all the awesome writing/writer blogs, like yours.
Hi Reeta!
This is the biggest round up of links for writers I’ve seen yet. Thanks so much for sharing it (and also for including my post).
Carrie recently posted..10 Tips For Writers: Managing Your Time
Thank you for the compliment. I’m on the lookout for more great posts from you.
Wow, this is one heck of a list! I’ve seen some of these, but not all. I know what’s on my procrastination/productivity agenda for today. 🙂 Thanks for including one of my posts too! 🙂
Julie Hedlund recently posted..Tuesday 12 x 12: Nicky Johnston
My pleasure. The best thing about mashups like this (and Elizabeth S. Craig’s Twitterific) is that there is usually at least one interesting link for everyone.
Wow! This is a great list, Reatta. Thank you.
Reetta. I know your name is Reetta. Sorry. BTW, call me Patt or Putt. I don’t mind.
Thank you Pat. And Reatta is actually close to how some of my English friends pronounce my name 🙂 I don’t mind since it is a difficult one.
Hey Reeta! Thanks for the shout-out and link! Glad you enjoyed the post!
Nick
Nick Thacker recently posted..What to Do When Your Awesome Plans… Fail Miserably
Thanks for dropping by and for the great post for me to link 🙂