Link Feast vol 63 – Writing Links
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Cersei, Voldemort, Hannibal Lecter, Saruman, Joker… We love to hate a good villain.
Since it’s almost Halloween, this Link Feast has a special section about writing villains and monsters.
Drop a comment below and share who are your favourite bad guys and critters from books, films and TV.
If You Have Time For Only One Link
The Bodies of the Girls Who Made Me: On Fanfic and Storytelling by Seanan McGuire
On Writing Villains & Monsters
The Brain Behind the Story: The Big Boss Troublemaker (BBT) by Kristen Lamb
Scaredy-Pants! 4 Breeches – er – BREACHES That Elicit Fear in Your Characters by Bonnie Randall
http://blog.janicehardy.com/2019/10/scaredy-pants-4-breeches-er-breaches.html
Five Tropes That Make a Villain Look Incompetent by Oren Ashkenazi
How to Plot a Mystery, Part 5: Figure Out What Went Wrong by Matt Bird
www.secretsofstory.com/2017/02/how-to-plot-mystery-part-5-figure-out.html
Storyteller’s Rulebook: The Mastermind Exception by Matt Bird
http://www.secretsofstory.com/2011/01/storytellers-rulebook-63-but-there-are.html
When to Narrate a Villain’s Point of View by Chris Winkle
Writing Monsters: What Makes a Monster Scary? by Philip Athans
5 Frankenstein Inspired Stories That Recontextualize the Monster by Natalie Zutter
The Evolution of Dragons in Western Literature: A History by Yvonne Shiau
On Writing
Author Mindset: 4 Practices For Overcoming Self-Doubt by Philip Kenney
Writing Boldly, Without Fear by Heather Webb
Writers: How to Ditch Distraction and Focus by Rochelle Melander
http://blog.janicehardy.com/2019/10/writers-how-to-ditch-distraction-and.html
The Books That Get People Talking by Kathleen McCleary
Confession of a Lapsed Reader by Sarah McCoy
How Is Our Protagonist Challenged to Improve? (& a Worksheet) by Jami Gold
Analysis: Carnival Row Shows Us the Damage a Reveal Can Do by Chris Winkle
Five Reasons Stories Have Slow Openings and How to Fix Them by Oren Ashkenazi
Romance Beats vs. 12 Stages of Intimacy by Jami Gold
How to Describe Your Main Character by James Scott Bell
Seven Common Causes of Reader Confusion by Chris Winkle
How to Train Your Editor Brain by Tiffany Yates Martin
Professional Romance Novelists Can Write 3000 Words a Day. Here’s How They Do It by Thu-Huong Ha
Caveat 1: Writing is a marathon, not a sprint. If you just bought your first running shoes, you should not compare your output to authors who have been at it for years. Set a writing goal you can fairly easily beat so you are always writing to success. When hitting that goal gets easy, slowly increase your aim.
Caveat 2: Romance novels tend to have very clear story beats and structures. If you are writing something longer and a genre not so clearly defined, do expect more meandering and need to pause and figure out where your story is going.
Caveat 3: Many of the most recent super productive self-pub wonders reach their astonishing word counts by dictating their stories instead of writing them.
How Publishing Business Works, Being a Business-Minded Author & Book Marketing
Current Trends in Book Publishing by Jane Friedman
Business Musings: The Three Kinds of Writers (Rethinking the Writing Business Part 14) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Business Musings: But I Can’t Afford…. (Rethinking the Writing Business Part 15) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
(How to make sure your author business stays healthy, and to not overspend on business ventures that you don’t crucially need. How to analyse the costs and benefits.)
From Indie Author to Creative Empire With Michael Anderle by Joanna Penn
(Michael has been doing for years the kind of licensing Kris Rusch is talking about in her blog series)
He Has Come to Solve Your Plot Problems by James Scott Bell (now here’s how you puff your own book in an entertaining way)
Influencer Outreach 101: How to Get Other People to Promote Your Book by Tim Grahl
Deep Stuff
How to Automate a Habit and Never Think About It Again by James Clear
These Poverty Fighting Startups Are Slaying Silicon Valley’s Sacred Cows by Ciara Byrne
Japan’s most remote onsen (hot spring) by Lily Crossley-Baxter
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20191015-japans-most-remote-onsen
Fun Stuff
The Rec League: Books For Your Inner Goth by Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
Beyond Frankenstein: 7 Contemporary Monster Books Written by Women by Mallory O’Meara
About Reetta
I'm a Finnish fantasy / urban fantasy writer who loves reading, roleplaying and all things medieval. 
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